THE VICTIMS OF THE wAR

THE VICTIMS OF THE WAR

• 12 years long
• children were often used as soldiers
• civilians were targeted by death squads
• 75,000 people died
• to this day it is unknown how many "disappeared"

THE JESUIT MASSACRE

• November 16, 1989
• 6 Jesuit priest were murdered by armed forces
• their cook and her daughter were also killed
• Celina, the daughter, was 15

THE MURDER OF 4 CHRUCHWOMEN

• December 2, 1980
• raped and killed by national guard
• their bodies were left in shallow graves on the side of the road
• El Salvador claimed they were victims of a robbery
• the U.S. turned a blind eye

OSCAR ROMERO MASSACRE

RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE

• guerrilla warfare led to many civilians deaths
• methods of death included: mutilation, torture, extrajudicial killing, and rape
• many people were forced to disappear
• these peoples deaths were considered "collateral damage"

EL SALVADOR CIVIL WAR

• too often we forget that these are people not numbers
• "The world will remain as brutal as our level of desensitization to its brutality."