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El Mozote

El Mozote is a village in the Morazan department of El Salvador where a great number of indigenous citizens lost their lives.  El Mozote Massacre came to be known as the most notorious case of human right violation in the history of ElSalvador. Salvadorans still remember and mourn the loss of loved ones.

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In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Batallion massacred over one thousand mostly indigenous women and children in and around the village of El Mozote.  

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