Canoas and Quesara massacres in El Salvador

The Asociación Pro-Búsqueda and the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights has teamed up to produce two videos and a written report on two civil war-ear massacres in commemoration of the March 29th Day of the Disappeared Child in El Salvador.

During El Salvador’s civil war from 1980 and 1992, over 75,000 civilians were killed—the majority at the hands of state forces—and many more were detained, tortured, or disappeared. Thousands of children were forcibly separated from their families, many adopted to other parts of the country or sent abroad under false identities. Approximately 2,354 Salvadoran children were adopted into the U.S. throughout the conflict.

In the 1980 Canoas massacre, the Salvadoran army attacked a house of displaced people who had gathered to distribute food and clothes, resulting in the death of 23 people and at least two cases of disappeared children. During the Quesera massacre in 1981, between 350 and 500 civilians were killed by the Salvadoran military and 24 children were disappeared. Read the report here (PDF).

You can read more about this project and others at Unfinished Sentences.

Terrific work.