Survivor of Massacre of El Salvadorian Children by America's Allies Has Died

[Termagant]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...rticle/2007/03/13/AR2007031301826.html

Rufina Amaya, the woman who was often identified as the last, or only, survivor of the massacre at the village of El Mozote, died last week.

The massacre took place in the early days of the United States' involvement in El Salvador.

The troops arrived the following day and, after an initial brutal search, told the villagers that they could return to their homes....
But the troops returned. Acting on orders, they separated the villagers into groups of men, young girls, and women and children.

In congressional hearings and to the press, high-level officials roundly denied that any atrocity had taken place. Bonner was called a liar in a Wall Street Journal editorial.

Let us hope that now and in the future, our taxes do not finance wholesale slaughter of innocents by 3rd World tin pot regimes who happen to be "on the side of good."

During the current War on Terror, there have been civilian casualties of children when houses in Afghanistan or Pakistan are bombed. I have personally heard Americans dismissing or even praising these deaths, because the children "were going to grow up indoctrinated anyway." That should not be an American mentality, we can do better.

 

[Craig234]

There are two kinds of Americans. Those with principles who are aghast at the wrongs our nation sometimes does, and those who are weak and who can't be bothered and ignore the problems and chant 'blame America first' at the first group. The latter are a shame to the nation.