a Twitter thread from @redfishstream

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Today marks the anniversary of one of the worst massacres in modern Latin American history, the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador committed by a right-wing US-trained death squad.

The soldiers killed 1,000 people, almost the entire village of El Mozote. 🧵

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The majority of the victims were women, children and the elderly. Soldiers separated the men from the women and children, then they tortured and executed the men in several locations.

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The soldiers separated women and older girls from the children, raped them and then executed them with machine guns. Girls as young as 10 were raped. They slit the throats of the children, hanged them from trees & after killing almost the entire population, set the homes on fire.

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El Salvador at the time was in a civil war between the left-wing guerillas of the FMLN and a US-backed military dictatorship. El Mozote was suspected of supporting the FMLN and after the massacre became a symbol of US support for atrocities against the Latin American left.

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