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El Salvador: 30 Years Since ‘El Calabozo Massacre’

Categories: Latin America, El Salvador, Human Rights, War & Conflict

Today, August 22, 2012, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the ‘El Calabozo’ massacre, “when troops of the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion murdered more than 200 civilian victims taking refuge along a river's banks,” as Tim's El Salvador Blog [1] reports. Tim highlights how families of the victims will “commemorate, remember, and demand justice” on this anniversary.