El Mozote Massacre: 900 Civilians Slaughtered
Salvadoran army troops from the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion massacred an estimated 900 civilians in the village of El Mozote during a scorched-earth campaign against guerrilla forces. The atrocity, initially denied by both the Salvadoran and U.S. governments, remains the worst mass killing in modern Latin American history.
December 11, 1981
45 years ago
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