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A Visual Timeline of the Salvadoran Civil War
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1992: Peace Accords
A VISUAL TIMELINE OF THE SALVADORAN CIVIL WAR
- January 16: Final peace agreement is signed at Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City.
- FMLN transitions from guerilla forces to being a political party.
- At this point the nation has been economically destroyed and many depend on remittances to have enough money to survive.
- December 15: Final guerilla forces demobilized, marking end of conflict.
1932: La Matanza
Final Offensive of 1989
Nov 11 - Early Dec / It was the most brutal confrontation in the entire conflict, amounting for seventeen percent of the total casualties in ten years of warfare.
This was the first attempt at a civilian revolt in the nation which ended with tens of thousands of mostly indigenous civilians murdered by government forces.
1987: War Rages On
- Genocide of a majority of the nation's indigenous population (around 30,000 people or 4% of the population).
- Set the precedent for most of the nation as needing to be subservient to stay alive.
The Salvadoran
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Gerardo Carcamo
- As war continues mass death and exodus occurs throughout the nation.
- Unemployment at nearly 50% and inflation at nearly 30%.
- At this point more than 400,000 illegal Salvadoran immigrants have immigrated into the United States.
1982: El Mozote Massacre
1980: Start of the War
Governments forces and death squads are mobilized around the nation to supress the insurgency.
Dec 9-12: The Atlacatl Battalion led by Coronel Domingo Monterrosa committed one of the most brutal massacres on the Salvadoran people including torture and executions on some of the poorest in the nation.
March 24th: Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero is assassinated. He was seen as a leader for the poor and opressed in the nation.
The start of the civil war begins this year with this assassination and the formation of the insurgency.
November: Founding of insurgent forces Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) made up of largely the same civilians who faced genocide in the 1930s.