Talk:El Mozote massacre

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Contents 1 Evangelicals? 2 Guerilla views 3 Style 4 Give me a break 5 Photos

[edit] Evangelicals?

According to Mark Danner, who is an authority on this massacre, the fact that the people in the village of El Mozote were largely Evangelicals is of some importance. I can't find any reference to this fact in this article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.146.188.99 (talk • contribs) 09:17, 24 August 2005

[edit] Guerilla views

I do not agree with the guerrilla inspired views of an outsider. The author of the article might be knowledgeable in the subject, but he was not here. Most foreigners fail to recognize the fact that the Department of Morazan, the province where the supposed Army massacre took place was crawling with guerrillas and their supporters. They also fail to recognize that most people in El Salvador credit the guerrillas for this massacre. Why? Because these organizations have always been in dispute, and El Mozote and other massacres were results of rivalries between the guerrillas. They also fail to report how guerrillas killed civilians who did not support them or paid their "war tax", and how the soldiers themselves were tortured and mutilated when they valiantly did not give up their rank and renounced to their place in the Salvadorean Armed Forces. Please note that the Guerrillas had a better propaganda tool than the government, sadly the Salvadorean Authorities could never match the isurgents' ability to "inform" the outside world. That being said, if Salvadoreans believe what is said in this article, they either support the guerrillas, blindly believe what our Education System teaches them or simply were not here.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.249.202.96 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 6 December 2005

It is possible to support the truth without categorically supporting the guerillas. It is simply untrue that most Salvadorans attibute the massacre at El Mozote to the guerillas. In eight years of living in El Salvador, I never met anyone who seriously held that view. Most notably, I posed that very question to Legislative Assembly member Roberto d’Aubuisson, son of the founder of the ARENA party by the same name, and even he attributed the massacare to the Salvadoran Army.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.174.155.190 (talk • contribs) 11:12, 10 December 2005

Interesting, is he not the son of the founder of the Atlacatl Battalion that is believed to be responsible for the El Mozote massacre.

How more credible can the confirmation that Government forces, not guerillas were responsible.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.241.121 (talk) 03:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Style

Please sign your comments with ~~~~ and please don't put ugly lines acrioss this page. It is not wikipedia style, SqueakBox 17:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Give me a break

The Reagan related claims are garbage. The U.S. did NOT support the death squad fascists. We did NOT support the commies either. We supported the Christian Democratic Party. Modern propaganda has led many people to believe that there were only two sides in this conflict. We supported the PDC and because of this they received 54% of the votes in El Salvador's first free election (over the ARENA and the FMLN) only three years after this massacre. This success was the work of the Reagan administration. 67.171.43.170 23:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

There actually is a lot of evidence that the Reagan Administration was complicit in the actions of Salvadoran death squads. [1][2]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.110.49.135 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 11 December 2006

The US government did not support the Atlacal Battalion but did provide organizing and training at the School of the Americas, how exactly does that work? LamontCranston 13:40, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

I posted those original photos, and I have higher resolution images... somewhere. When I dig them up, I'll tag them appropriately. Rojazz 07:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Updated the photos with better versions that I took when I visited El Mozote about 4 years ago. I'll be reading through the Danner book again and will be working to touch up this article, shortly. Efrojas 21:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)