El Mozote 2915045 222709215 2008-06-30T18:57:50Z MartinGugino 429942 /* External links */ add 6 min video [[Image:Emtownsquare800.jpg|thumb|The village of El Mozote]] '''El Mozote''' is a village in the [[Morazán department]] in [[El Salvador]]. It was the site of the [[El Mozote massacre]] in December 1981 when nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by the US-trained Atlacatl battalion backed by the Salvadoran government. In December of 1981, high in the mountains of El Salvador, in a little town called El Mozote, a whole town was destroyed by the most elite battalion of the Salvadoran army. Nobody was left alive except for one woman who later recounted the massacre. This event was kept secret for many years, denied by the right wing government of El Salvador and by the U.S. Government as well. As the years passed by, the evidence accumulated and eventually the mass graves were uncovered. == See also == * [[El Salvador Civil War]] ==External links== * [http://mikeoso.homestead.com/mozote.html Images of El Salvador: El Mozote] * [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7446167480407575686 Discovery News Video 6min] {{coor title dm|13|54|N|88|07|W|region:SV_type:city}} [[Category:Cities, towns and villages in El Salvador]] {{ElSalvador-geo-stub}}