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El Salvador buries remains from civil war massacre

29 Dec 2006 01:43:16 GMT
Source: Reuters

SAN SALVADOR, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The exhumed remains of 41 victims of an army massacre during El Salvador's 12-year civil war were reburied on Thursday near the site where the brutal killings occurred.

The bodies were discovered in November 2004 after families of the victims, backed by the Salvadoran Roman Catholic Church, forced legal investigations that revealed a series of mass graves close to the village of La Quesera, south of the capital, San Salvador.

Families of the victims and locals from La Quesera, singing songs and carrying out popular funeral traditions of the Central American nation, buried the remains in urns close to a monument in memory of the victims.

According to investigations into the 1981 La Quesera massacre, about 500 people were killed by the army, with widespread rape of women and torture.

"They raped girls and young women, and the pregnant had their stomachs opened up to remove their children," massacre survivor Julia Garcia, 42, told reporters.

More than 75,000 people were killed during the 1980-1992 conflict that saw the U.S. government support the right-wing Salvadoran government and its army against leftist guerrillas.

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