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January 30, 2020

Salvadoran General Admits U.S.-Trained Forces Carried Out 1981 Massacre
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Retired Salvadoran General Juan Rafael Bustillo has acknowledged for the
first time that elite United States-trained forces were responsible for
carrying out the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which nearly 1,000 unarmed
villagers were killed. Most of those tortured and murdered by the
U.S.-backed troops were women and children. This comes as the U.S. State
Department has banned 13 former Salvadoran military officials from
entering the United States after they allegedly orchestrated the
extrajudicial killings of six Jesuit priests in 1989. Like the El Mozote
massacre, the killing of the Jesuit priests was also carried out by
soldiers trained by the United States.


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