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El Mozote Massacre Case Reopened
in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Archbishopric and
its Legal Custody justice
section reiterated before the
court of first instance of the
Morazan department, the judicial
reopening of the case of the El
Mozote massacre.
María Julia Hernandez, Legal
Custody director, reported that
the request was made on November
23 before the Second Court of
fist Instance of San Francisco
Gotera.
After 25 years of that
indiscriminate massacre of El
Mozote locality, December 1981,
the relatives of the victim
still cry out for justice
She stated that an elite unit of
the Salvadoran army killed more
than a thousand defenseless
residents, most of them minors,
in three days, which were
accused of cooperating with the
guerrillas.
Other social sectors and
organizations of human rights
consider that there are enough
elements so they reinitiated the
case.
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