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El Salvador Massacre Apology On 20-year Peace Mark
El Salvador Massacre Apology On 20-year Peace Mark
Published on 16 January 2012
by Associated Press
El Salvador's president has formally apologized for the 1981 El Mozote massacre and acknowledged the government's responsibility for killing 936 civilians in a counterinsurgency operation.
President Mauricio Funes says the army committed "the biggest massacre of civilians in the contemporary history of Latin America."
Funes was elected on the ticket of the former leftist rebels. He was a journalist at the time and did not take part in the country's 12-year civil war.
Funes spoke Monday on the 20th anniversary of the 1992 peace accords that ended the conflict.
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