January 14^th, 2005

A list of quotes on the death squads in El Salvador. This makes you want to cry. Among the first is this quote from the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador, mind you, this does not come from the “liberal-biased, communist media”:

The El Mozote Massacre 1 Apr 1993

On the Afternoon of 10 December 1981, units of the Atlacal Rapid Deployment Infantry Battalion (BIRI) arrived in the village of El Mozote, Department of Morazan, after a clash with the guerrillas in the vicinity . . .

Early next morning, 11 December, the soldiers reassembled the entire population in the square. They separated the men from the women and children and locked everyone up in different groups in the church, the convent and various houses.

During the morning, they proceeded to interrogate, torture and execute the men in various locations. Around noon, they began taking the women in groups, separating them from their children and machine-gunning them. Finally, they killed the children. A group of children who had been locked in the convent were machine-gunned through the windows. After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings.

Do you want to know more? Read John Negroponte’s biography on Wikipedia (also via rc3.org)