By January 1980, the left-wing political organizations united to form the CRM (Coordinated Revolutionaries of the Masses) and a few months later the left-wing armed groups united to form the DRU (Unified Revolutionary Directorate) which, following its merging with the Communist party in October 1980, was renamed the FMLN. The full-fledged civil war lasted for twelve years and was extremely violent. It included the use of death squads, heavy military equipment, the recruitment of child soldiers, the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians, as well as other violations of human rights.
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| - By January 1980, the left-wing political organizations united to form the CRM (Coordinated Revolutionaries of the Masses) and a few months later the left-wing armed groups united to form the DRU (Unified Revolutionary Directorate) which, following its merging with the Communist party in October 1980, was renamed the FMLN. The full-fledged civil war lasted for twelve years and was extremely violent. It included the use of death squads, heavy military equipment, the recruitment of child soldiers, the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians, as well as other violations of human rights.
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| Casus
| - Revolutionary victory
*The overthrow of the El Salvadorian military government by way of populist revolution
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| Commander
| - Alfredo Cristiani
- Cayetano Carpio†
- Joaquin Villalobos
- José Guillermo García
- José Napoleón Duarte
- Leonel González
- Nidia Díaz
- Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Schafik Handal
- Álvaro Magaña
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| - A reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the Civil War in El Salvador, Central America
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| Battles
| - * The October 1979 coup d'état
* Assassination of Oscar Romero
* El Mozote massacre
* El Calabozo massacre
* 1985 Zona Rosa attacks
* Murder of UCA scholars
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| Casualties
| - 7000(xsd:integer)
- 20000(xsd:integer)
- 70000(xsd:integer)
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| Result
| - Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992; restructuring of Salvadorian Armed Forces, the National and Treasury Police are dissolved ; FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated
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| - Chile
- Nicaragua
- Taiwan
- United States
- Argentina
- Cuba
- Israel
- FDR
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- FMLN
- Salvadoran government forces
Supported by
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| - Central and Eastern El Salvador
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| - Our efforts to emphasize the differences between the situation in El Salvador today and the one prevailing in Nicaragua before July 1979 have had an impact on public perceptions. Media coverage of El Salvador has been responsive to official government policies: greater emphasis on U.S. interests in the region, continuous reference to Cuban involvement, understatement of the "human rights" dimension, effective use of the "extremists of the right and the left" formula. Therefore, the current domestic environment is generally supportive of current policy as articulated for public consumption.
--Dissent paper on El Salvador and Central America: Written With the Participation of Members of the National Security Council, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Congress
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| - By January 1980, the left-wing political organizations united to form the CRM (Coordinated Revolutionaries of the Masses) and a few months later the left-wing armed groups united to form the DRU (Unified Revolutionary Directorate) which, following its merging with the Communist party in October 1980, was renamed the FMLN. The full-fledged civil war lasted for twelve years and was extremely violent. It included the use of death squads, heavy military equipment, the recruitment of child soldiers, the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians, as well as other violations of human rights. The United States contributed to the conflict by providing large amounts of military aid to the government of El Salvador during the Carter and Reagan administrations despite significant opposition from the American public. In 1990, the UN began peace negotiations and on January 16, 1992, a final agreement, The Chapultepec Peace Agreement,[1] was signed by the combatants in Mexico City, formally ending the conflict. An unknown number of people "disappeared" during the conflict and the UN reports that more than 75,000 were killed.
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