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Encyclopedia > El Mozote

El Mozote is a village in Morazán department in El Salvador. It was a site of the El Mozote massacre in December 1981 when about 900 civilians were slaughtered by army forces. Morazán is a department of El Salvador. ... The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when the Salvadoran armed forces were claimed (by the Insurgents Radio Venceremos) to have killed an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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Mark Danner: The Truth of El Mozote, p. 1 of 12 (2589 words)
In the United States, the free press was not to be denied: El Mozote was reported; Rufina's story was told; the angry debate in Congress intensified.
But El Mozote was crowded; in the days before Operation Rescue, people from the outlying areas had flooded into the hamlet.
As in many other communities in northern Morazán, the people of El Mozote were struggling to keep their balance in the middle of the perilously shifting ground of a brutal war -- were working hard to remain on friendly terms with the soldiers while fearing to alienate the guerrillas.
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