List of massacres in El Salvador

The following are lists of massacres that have occurred in El Salvador (numbers may be approximate). There were some 27 separate documented civilian massacres^[1][2][3] in the Salvadoran Civil War era alone (1979-1985), in total the war directly claimed 70-80 thousand lives. Additional ongoing violence related to the massacres and their obfuscation has claimed numerous activists, religious leaders, university professors, mayors, and foreigners in the decades following the civil war until the present day.

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Pre-war

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre	January 22, 1932 – July 11, 1932	La matanza ("The Massacre")	10,000[4] and 40,000	Led to decline of native Pipil (Nahuatl) language and lack of linguistic self-identification due to induced climate of fear
Student Massacre of 1975	July 30, 1975	National Hospital Rosales, San Salvador	unknown (over 100)[5]
Cathedral Slope Massacre	May 8, 1979	San Salvador Cathedral	200-1500[6]	Civil War followed

Salvadoran Civil War era

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
El Calabozo massacre	August 21–22, 1982	El Calabozo, San Vicente Department	more than 200[7]
El Mozote massacre	December 11, 1981	El Mozote	up to 900[8]
Massacre of Tenango and Guadalupe	Suchitoto	Feb 28-Mar 1,1983

References

1. Informe de la Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador: “De la locura a la esperanza”, Naciones Unidas, San Salvador – Nueva York 1992-1993.
2. Book "Condoning the killing : ten years of massacres in El Salvador" con introducción del senador Brock Adams.
3. http://web.archive.org/web/http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20061104/enfoques/635106.asp La muerte de los que no combatían en la guerra Revista Enfocus
4. Jeffery L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago (2008). To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador. Duke University Press. p. 234. ISBN 0822342286.
5. El Universitario, Época XIII, No 14, 2010
6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_2520000/2520219.stm
7. Tom Rosenstiel and Amy S. Mitchell (2003). Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision-Making. Columbia University Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-231-12589-5. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
8. Alex J. Bellamy (2012). Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity. Oxford University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0199288427. Retrieved November 4, 2012.