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		El Mozote massacre, 1981: Was operations chief of the battalion (Atlacatl) which massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and children at El Mozote.
		El Mozote massacre, 1981: Then-defense minister García refused to investigate reports that hundreds of unarmed civilians were brutally murdered by the U.S.-trained Atlacatl battalion in the Morazon province in December of 1981.
		Jesuit massacre, 1989: Participated in the cover-up of the massacre of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter, who were all murdered at the priests' residence at the University of Central America in San Salvador.
	www.derechos.org /soa/elsal-not.html (1845 words)

	www.markdanner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The story of the massacre at El Mozote -- how it came about, and hy it had to be denied -- stands as a central parable of the Cold War.
		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 Morazn, 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.
	www.markdanner.com /newyorker/120693_The_Massacre.htm (2572 words)

	El Salvador Petition 10.720 Admissibility
		The petitioners explained that the events known as the "Massacre of El Mozote" refer to the massacres committed in the course of an anti-guerrilla military operation called "Rescue Operation," which was carried out by joint units of the Atlacatl Battalion, the Third Infantry Brigade and the Commando Instruction Center of San Francisco Gotera.
		The petitioners say that the operation was conducted in a coordinated and systematic manner between December 8 and 16, 1981, with the massacres taking place on the 11th (in El Mozote and La Joya), the 12th (in Ranchería and Los Toriles) and the 13th (in Cerro Pando and Jocote Amarillo).
		With that overriding concern in mind, the judge hearing the case applied the law, as it was consistent with the the lack of identification in the legal proceedings of the perpetrators of the massacre.
	www.cidh.org /annualrep/2006eng/ELSALVADOR.10720eng.htm (3959 words)

	Massacres: Selected Links to Resources
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		Massacre in West Papua A first-hand account By Mike Head 20 November 1998 Thanks to the efforts of two Australian aid workers, reports have begun to appear in the media of a ferocious massacre carried out by the Indonesian military regime in the West Papuan town of Biak on July 6.
		Massacre At Tunaja A Small Indian Village in the Department of Quiché, Guatemala C.A. MILITARY COURT BLOCKS MASSACRE PROBE: Prosecutor General Ramses Cuestas says a military judge is impeding the investigation of an October 5 massacre of 11.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~dbertuca/Massacres.html (4658 words)

	Tim's El Salvador Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		El Faro reports that the FMLN has decided to eliminate internal elections as a way to choose future candidates for the 2009 presidential and legislative elections.
		Although the massacre at El Mozote, along with the Rio Sumpul massacre, may be two of the most notorious massacres by government forces during the civil war, they may not have been the largest.
		El Salvador is one of the largest breeders and exporters of iguanas in the world.
	luterano.blogspot.com (2123 words)

	El Mozote massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces killed an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
		The massacre was both a low point and a turning point in the civil war that ravaged this Central American country between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
		There is full proof that on 11 December 1981, in the village of El Mozote, units of the Atlacatl Battalion deliberately and systematically killed a group of more than 200 men, women and children, constituting the entire civilian population that they had found there the previous day and had since been holding prisoner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/El_Mozote_massacre (2665 words)

	www.markdanner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was over El Salvador, an obscure, overpopulated land of six million, that the Reagan administration fought some of its most savage battles with the Democratic Congress; and it was to El Salvador that the administration and Congress eventually sent billions in military aid, financing the bulk of a civil war in which seventy-five
		Such things do indeed "happen in war," but in El Salvador in the early 1980s they lay at the heart of a systematic and bloody response to a political rebellion, and in very rapid course this dirty war sent the country into a tailspin of lurid and very public violence.
		Amid all the changes in El Salvador, Towell shows us, there is far too much that has stayed the same: flocks of children still pick their way through the garbage dumps each morning, hoping to fill their stomachs.
	www.markdanner.com /elsalvado.htm (2746 words)

	CJR - The Mozote Massacre, by Mike Hoyt
		EL MOZOTE, El Salvadore, Oct. 20 -- In a small rectangular plot among the overgrown ruins of a village here, a team of forensic archeologists has opened a window on El Salvador's nightmarish past.
		Nearly 11 years after American-trained soldiers were said to have torn through El Mozote and surrounding hamlets on a rampage in which at least 794 people were killed, the bones have emerged as stark evidence that the claims of peasant survivors and the reporters of a couple of American journalists were true.
		Meiselas says that what she most vividly remembers about their arrival in El Mozote was the sound, or the lack of it: "A very haunted village.
	archives.cjr.org /year/93/1/mozote.asp (1992 words)

	The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights
		The 1981 slaughter of more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote, El Salvador, by the country's U.S.-trained army was the largest massacre of the Salvadoran civil war.
		He is intent on making the victims of the massacre real human beings with lives and livelihoods, not an anonymous mass of people.
		Drawing on interviews he conducted with El Mozote-area residents, he offers a rich ethnographic and personal account of their lives prior to the tragedy.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /BOOKS/BID999.htm (319 words)

	El Mozote massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the afternoon of December 10, 1981, units of the Salvadoran army's Atlacatl Battalion (named after a famous indigenous fighter that battled the Spanish troops for El Salvador) arrived at the remote village of El Mozote after a clash with guerrillas in the vicinity.
		El Mozote consisted of about twenty houses situated on open ground around a square.
		Members of the Atlacatl Battalion repeated similar actions in La Joya canton on December 11, in the village of La Rancheria on December 12, and in the village of Jocote Amarillo and Cerro Pando canton on 13 December.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/El_Mozote_massacre (2668 words)

	TomPaine.com - Reagan's Bloody Legacy
		The El Mozote episode is, sadly, only one example of violence borne of Reagan’s foreign policy.
		The El Mozote massacre, though perhaps the largest massacre in modern Latin American history, is a minor footnote in the history of the Cold War, but it is, as writer Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote, observed, "a central parable of the Cold War." It is also a telling tale of Reaganism.
		I doubt the villagers of El Mozote were thinking about Reagan’s wonderful disposition when made-in-the-USA bullets supplied to their killers by the U.S. government, in accordance with Reagan’s foreign policy, were piercing their bodies and ending their non-American lives.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/reagans_bloody_legacy.php (1243 words)

	The USA's secret war in El Salvador 1981-1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yet, the war in El Salvador was waged with hardly anyone in Congress or the national news media catching on to the U.S. combat role.
		In early 1982, Bonner also exposed the Salvadoran government's massacre of nearly 1,000 men, women and children at the town of El Mozote in December 1981.
		When I was in El Salvador on a reporting assignment in fall 1982, two senior U.S. officials boasted to me about the embassy's success in discrediting Bonner and orchestrating his departure.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/usa/secsal.html (1914 words)

	Upside Down World - Victims of El Mozote Massacre Recognized in El Salvador
		On Dec. 10, 1981 the Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army—led by the now deceased SOA graduate Col. Domingo Monterrosa--entered the village of El Mozote, Morazán and commenced a two-day bloodbath that resulted in the summary execution of the town’s population.
		The act was perhaps the most gruesome of the 12-year civil war that gripped El Salvador from 1980-1992, but it came to symbolize a policy of collective punishment and human rights abuse exacted by the army against the civilian population.
		In honor of the 25 th anniversary of the massacre, the community held a commemorative mass and cultural event on December 9.
	upsidedownworld.org /main/content/view/544/1 (688 words)

	mozote
		In 1981, the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran army massacred hundreds of civilians in the village of El Mozote.
		Although US State and Defense Dept. investigated and were aware of the massacre, the US government and specifically President Reagan labelled reports of it as "communist propaganda".
		These are the ruins of the church in El Mozote, where the men and boys of the village were killed.
	mikeoso.homestead.com /mozote.html (181 words)

	Mark Danner: The Truth of El Mozote, p. 8 of 12
		At a burial near El Zapotal, they were introduced to Rufina Amaya, and Bonner interviewed her at length.
		The two men were headed for El Mozote to have a look for themselves.
		The slender version of what happened in El Mozote seems to be a mixture of Army briefings and, at best, inferences by Greentree and Bleakley.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people/Danner/1993/truthelmoz08.html (2323 words)

	The Trojan Horse
		In El Mozote and neighboring small villages, between December 10 and 13, 1981, the men of the Atlacatl murdered in cold blood at least one thousand men, women and children.
		A survivor--from El Mozote itself there was only one--heard some soldiers saying that they didn't want to kill the children; their lieutenant told them they themselves would be shot if they didn't obey orders.
		U.S. policy toward El Salvador was not affected by news of the atrocity, and the Reagan administration routinely "certified" to Congress that the human rights situation there was improving.
	www.math.dartmouth.edu /~lamperti/Trojan_Horse.html (1827 words)

	SOA...El Mozote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In all, over 900 people from El Mozote and surrounding areas were massacred.
		El Mozote is located 230 Km northwest from San Miguel.
		The Reagan Administration later stated that El Salvador was making a "significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights." In 1993, the United Nations Truth Commission on El Salvador released a report verifying the atrocity and stating that 12 officers were responsible.
	www.unc.edu /home/ltqmb/ElMozote/ElMoz.html (205 words)

	Indymedia Milwaukee \| Reagan on a Dime
		They were accused of lying or at least greatly exaggerating the extent of the atrocities at El Mozote, where over 900 men, women and children were slaughtered by the US-trained Atlacatl battalion.
		Many years later, when US goals in defeating the insurgency in El Salvador had been accomplished, forensic scientists dug up the bones at El Mozote, noticing the skeletons of men, women and children and the bullet holes in the skulls and machete marks on the bones.
		American military advisors were sent to El Salvador and the death squads were organized in Guatemala by the CIA with the help of the Argentine butchers who were responsible for disappearing over 30,000 leftists in Argentina.
	milwaukee.indymedia.org /en/2004/01/200036.shtml (1452 words)

	Print The Massacre at El Mozote
		He left El Salvador in 1974; the quiet murmurs of unrest had begun by then but they wouldn’t reach a fever pitch until the mid ‘80s.
		In December 1981 soldiers entered the small village of El Mozote and murdered hundreds of men, women and children.
		They were civilians just trying to make it day by day, but the military’s original plan of surrounding the guerillas at El Mozote failed so they developed plan B—to burn everything and everyone down in order to eradicate insurgency at its roots.
	subliminal.lunanina.com /blog/print/massacre_at_el_mozote (865 words)

	bailey83221: Torture 101: The Case Against the United
		At one time El Mozote used to be a place where men, women, and children lived together peacefully while working hard to sustain their reasonable quality of life.
		However, on December 11, 1980, during the El Salvador civil war, the peace and tranquility of this small village was shattered.
		In regards to the deaths of the innocent men, women, and children at El Mozote, the most obvious parties responsible are the Atlacatl Battalion and the El Salvador Army.
	bailey83221.livejournal.com /77479.html (3220 words)

	PC(USA) - Presbyterian Peacemaking Program - Resurrection in El Salvador
		After a recent sojourn to El Salvador with a delegation to the Martyrs of Justice Conference, however, I can say there are circumstances in which I would be willing to fire a gun.
		In 1981, the U.S.-trained Atacatl Batallion systematically assasinated over 750 unarmed women, men, and children in El Mozote, the surrounding rural area, and neighboring villages.
		Perhaps the road to peace, like the haphazard cobblestones paving the way to El Mozote, is a lot more muddled than my relatively secure middle class imagination could have previously understood.
	www.pcusa.org /peacemaking/ya/elsalvador.htm (1061 words)

	El Salvador: SOA Graduates on Parade - Eric Lormand
		(3) Emboldened by increased Reagan "aid", SOA graduates slaughter the thousand inhabitants of El Mozote, except for one mother hiding in the bushes who hears her children scream for her as they are bayoneted.
		Under Reagan and Bush, US military aid to El Salvador reaches (by conservative estimates) $6 billion, not counting aid routed through Israel, and the cost of training Salvadoran military personnel by the thousands at the School of the Americas.
		Ten of the twelve officers directing the massacre are graduates of the School of the Americas.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/poli/soa/elsalvador.htm (2338 words)

	AIM Report - March B, 1993
		In addition to his report on the El Mozote massacre, which appears to have exaggerated the number of noncombatants killed, several of Bonner's stories in the Times in January 1982 fit the classic communist disinformation pattern.
		Moreover, he recognized that subjecting El Salvador to communist rule was not appropriate punishment for its shortcomings in the human rights area, nor was it in the best interests of the United States.
		The pitiful pile of bones unearthed at El Mozote and shown on 60 Minutes is a reminder of the brutality that often characterized the struggle to ward off the attempted communist takeover.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1993/03b.html (4456 words)

	Amazon.com: The Massacre at El Mozote: Books: Mark Danner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The situation in El Mozote was similar: villagers caught in the political crossfire between rival groups during a brutal war, trying to remain on friendly terms with their own soldiers while fearing to alienate the opposition.
		Mark Danner's short book, The Massacre at El Mozote, is an extremely powerful depiction of not only what can go wrong with US foreign policy, but of the lengths politicians will go through to convince us that what they are doing is, in fact, right.
		Consequently, in December 1981, they murdered 767 people at El Mozote and in surrounding villages with impunity because they understood that the political stakes were much higher in Washington once the Reagan administration had committed itself to supporting the status quo.
	www.amazon.com /Massacre-at-El-Mozote/dp/067975525X (2561 words)

	The Global Dance
		Massacre at Rio Negro - photos and summary of the events of March 13, 1982.
		El Mozote Massacre, The - article by Jon Elliston describes how people of the small Salvadoran hamlet were exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion.
		Truth of El Mozote, The - article by Mark Danner of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley.
	www.brevardcc.edu /globaldance/lnk_la_2.htm (3745 words)

	LIFE Online: Picture of the Day
		Shadows of onlookers are seen on the monument dedicated to the victims of the Mozote massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador.
		Nine years after one of the worst massacres in El Salvador's civil war, villagers buried 37 of their loved ones in a humble ceremony Sunday--and said their final goodbye.
		The remains buried Sunday are among 200 recovered so far in the municipality of Meanguera where local residents and human rights groups believe more than 1,000 countrymen were gunned down by U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers in December 1981--what has come to be known as the Mozote massacre.
	www.life.com /Life/pictday/20001211.html (96 words)

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