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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:39 PM Apr 2013

MILITARY ATROCITIES: El Salvador

MILITARY ATROCITIES: El Salvador
By Megan Boehnke
Posted April 14, 2013 at 4 a.m.

In a 1981 civil war between the conservative government and leftist guerrillas, the United States backed the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador, which rose to power following a coup d’etat two years earlier.

In December 1981, U.S.-backed troops visited the village of El Mozote, raping women and girls and interrogating the men using torture before slaughtering more than 800 people. The soldiers buried the bodies and burned down the buildings.

While The New York Times and Washington Post reported the massacre in January 1982, the U.S. and El Salvador governments dismissed the reports as biased and exaggerated and the journalists faced criticism from peers and conservative media-watch groups. In 1992, however, the Chapultepec Peace Accords included a United Nations-sanctioned Commission on Truth for El Salvador to investigate potential human rights abuses committed during the war. The Argentine forensic team began excavations that year, confirming the journalists’ earlier reports.

In 2011, the Salvadoran government formally apologized for the atrocity. In 2012, the inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the local government to investigate the massacre and bring those responsible to justice, ruling that amnesty laws do not apply.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/14/military-atrocities-el-salvador/

(Short article, no more at link.)

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MILITARY ATROCITIES: El Salvador (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2013 OP
The most horrifying psychological war effect I've ever seen in research Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. The most horrifying psychological war effect I've ever seen in research
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:20 PM
Apr 2013

pertaining to the right-wing Salvadoran government's savagery against the people was this:


The results of Salvadoran military training are graphically described in the Jesuit journal America by Daniel Santiago, a Catholic priest working in El Salvador. He tells of a peasant woman who returned home one day to find her three children, her mother and her sister sitting around a table, each with its own decapitated head placed carefully on the table in front of the body, the hands arranged on top "as if each body was stroking its own head."

The assassins, from the Salvadoran National Guard, had found it hard to keep the head of an 18-month-old baby in place, so they nailed the hands onto it. A large plastic bowl filled with blood was tastefully displayed in the center of the table.

More:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/ChomOdon_ElSalvador.html

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