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"I am not afraid": Rufina Amaya's testimony

Video producido por Wendy Wallas

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The massacre in El Mozote was documented by two journalists from the New York Times and the Washington Post but long disputed by the Reagan administration. In 1993, Mark Danner finally set the record right by publishing The Truth of El Mozote, a book about the massacre, U.S. policies in El Salvador, and a an exhumation by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Unit of the site of the massacre which uncovered many of the remains.

Summary

As part of a "scorched earth" counterinsurgency policy, the Salvadoran military fell on El Mozote. First they killed the men, then they raped and killed the women, finally they killed the children. Rufina Amaya was one of the only survivors and witnesses of El Mozote massacre that took place on December 11, 1981 in Morazán, where more than 700 people (including hundreds of children) were summarily executed. This is her story, thanks to a video recording made by Wendy Wallas in 2007.

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