El Salvador urged to respond to El Calabozo massacre survivors’ demands

Headline Title:  El Salvador: Respond to El Calabozo massacre survivors’ demands 01 November 2012 El Salvador must finally deliver justice for a brutal massacre that took place three decades ago, Amnesty International urged today in an open letter to President Mauricio Funes, as families across the country are set to mark the annual Day of the Dead religious festival. More than 200 men, women and children were killed by an elite army unit at the El Calabozo massacre in the northern San Vicente region on 22 August, 1982. Three decades later, the Salvadoran authorities have yet to acknowledge…

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