On Dec 11 1981, members of the elite US-trained Atlacatl Battalion occupied the Salvadoran town of El Mozote—swollen with refugees—and massacred all the inhabitants, as many as 1000 men, women, and children.
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One woman, Rufina Amaya, hiding in some bushes, survived and witnessed the massacre, biting her tongue to keep from screaming as she watched her husband and her own children being killed. Later UN forensic investigation confirmed details of the worst massacre in LA history.
