El Salvador massacre: forensics teams dig for remains as US envoy faces grilling

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Thirty-eight years after he lost his mother, five siblings, and five nieces and nephews during El Salvador’s brutal civil war, Santos Alvaro Pereira still breaks down in tears when he recalls their murder.

Pereira’s relatives were among nearly 1,000 civilians – including 533 children – who were slaughtered by US-trained troops in and around the village of El Mozote in December 1981.

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