The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition

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In 1981 more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote El Salvador were slaughtered by the countrys U.S.-trained army. The story was coveredand soon forgottenby the international news media. In the first edition of The El Mozote Massacre anthropologist Leigh Binford successfully restores a social identity to the massacre victims through his dissection of Third World human rights reporting and a rich ethnographic and personal account of El Mozotearea residents prior to the massacre. Almost two decades later the consequences of the massacre continue to reverberate through the countrys legal and socioeconomic systems. The El Mozote Massacre 2nd Edition brings together new evidence to address reconstruction historical memory and human rights issues resulting from what may be the largest massacre in modern Latin American history. With a multitude of additions including three new chapters an extended chronology discussion of the hearing and ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2012 and evidence gathered throughout half a dozen field trips made by the author Binford presents a current perspective on the effects of this tragic moment in history. Thanks to geographically expanded fieldwork Binford offers critical discussion of postwar social economic religious and social justice in El Mozote and adds important new regional national and global contexts. The El Mozote Massacre 2nd Edition maintains the crucial presence of the massacre in human rights discussions for El Salvador Latin America and the world.