workingclasshistory:On this day, 11 December 1981, a Reagan administration-backed death squad massac
workingclasshistory:On this day, 11 December 1981, a Reagan administration-backed death squad massacred around 1,000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims - half of them children - were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained soldiers. They were fighting against a left-wing insurgency, but the villagers of El Mozote had remained largely neutral. This is a short account of the incredibly violent counterinsurgency campaign by Noam Chomsky: https://libcom.org/history/1970-1990-the-war-of-counter-insurgency-in-el-salvador https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1289934517858362/?type=3 -- source link
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