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El Salvador trying suspects in notorious El Mozote massacre; Judge wants evidence from US
By KEVIN SIEFF | The Washington Post | Published: March 14, 2020
It was the worst massacre in the modern history of Latin America: As many as a thousand Salvadoran civilians, many of them younger than 6, killed by a right-wing military dictatorship backed by the United States.
Thirty-nine years later, the suspected killers are on trial, and the judge is seeking a crucial piece of evidence: U.S. government records related to the 1981 El Mozote massacre.
The prosecution has been lauded by both the U.S. government and the relatives of victims. Now the Trump administration will have to decide what to hand over. So far, it has offered nothing.
The Mozote trial, which began in 2016, is considered a milestone in El Salvador's reckoning with its dark history. The massacre remains the most infamous killing in the country's bloody 12-year civil war, its survivors silenced by a succession of governments, its victims left to decompose in a mass grave.
More:
https://www.stripes.com/news/americas/el-salvador-trying-suspects-in-notorious-el-mozote-massacre-judge-wants-evidence-from-us-1.622439
Also posted in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142447773