
“The country quickly descended into a vicious civil war, which pitted a coalition of leftist guerrilla groups against a right-wing government backed by Washington. Right-wing leader Robert D’Aubuisson admitted, according to a declassified 1982 state department memo, that the death squads stalking the population were in fact comprised of official security forces whose “members use the guise of the death squad when a potentially embarrassing or odious task needs to be performed.” Members of the official U.S.-created battalion would go on to massacre whole villages.”
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