RUFINA AMAYA

HISTORY OF RUFINA AMAYA

• Rufina was born in 1943
• She lived in Salvador in the time of the civil war
• She had a husband and five kids

THE SALVADORAN CIVIL WAR

• This civil war was a fight between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
• This civil war lasted for 12 years
• This war broke many human right laws

THE SALVADORAN CIVIL WAR

• 75,000 people died from this war
• Supreme Court ruled that the amnesty law was unconstitutional

EL MOZOTE MASSACRE

• December 11 and 12 1984
• The Salvadoran army killed everyone in the village
• After the Salvadoran army killed everyone, they burn the village

THIS WAS WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE HOUSES

THE STORY OF RUFINA AMAYA

• Rufina Amaya was the sole survivor
• Her husband and four of her kids died
• She hid in a tree during the killing
• After, she ran and was rescued by the neighboring country of Honduras

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MOZOTE MASSACRE

• The war lasted for another 10 years
• In January 16 1992, a treaty was signed

THE REST OF AMAYA RUFINA’S LIFE

• Amaya became a refugee
• in 1985 she married fellow refugee José Natividad
• They were divorced two years later

THE RESULT OF THE RUFINA AMAYA

• Her testimony was recorded by two American journalists
• She caught the attention of the U.S. and Salvadorian governments
• She was the biggest part of finding out what happened in these massacres

THE REST OF RUFINA AMAYA LIFE

• She returned to El Salvador in 1990.
• She became a lay minister for the Roman Catholic Church.
• Rufina died on March 6, 2007

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WORK CITED

• "El Mozote Massacre - Wikipedia." Web. 7 Nov. 2018. "Rufina Amaya - Wikipedia." Web. 7 Nov. 2018. "Rufina Amaya - YouTube." Web. 7 Nov. 2018.