Arambala, Morazán, El Salvador — Central America (West Coast)
El Mozote Children's Memorial
Jardín de Reflexión Los Inocentes
Photographed By J. Makali Bruton, April 12, 2015
1. El Mozote Children's Memorial Marker
El Mozote Nunca Mas
In this place in 1992 were recovered the remains of 146 people, 140 of them under 12 years old. All of them now are buried in the monument.
El Mozote Never Again
Topics. This historical marker and memorial is listed in this topic list: Wars, Non-US. A significant historical year for this entry is 1992.
Location. 13° 53.906′ N, 88° 6.884′ W. Marker is in Arambala, Morazán. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Arambala, Morazán 03202, El Salvador. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 23 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies. El Mozote (within shouting distance of this marker); Peugeot armored car (approx. 8.4 kilometers away); French and Mexican recognition (approx. 8.5 kilometers away); 75 mm cannon (approx. 8.5 kilometers away); 120 mm mortar (approx. 8.5 kilometers away); Direct strike against the Counter-Insurgency Plan
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Also see . . . The Truth of El Mozote. Mark Danner provides his 1993 in-depth New Yorker article on the massacre: ...By early 1992, when a peace agreement between the government and the guerrillas was finally signed, Americans had spent more than four billion dollars funding a civil war that had lasted twelve years and left seventy-five thousand Salvadorans dead. By then, of course, the bitter fight over El Mozote had largely been forgotten; Washington had turned its gaze to other places and other things. For most Americans, El Salvador had long since slipped back into obscurity. But El Mozote may well have been the largest massacre in modern Latin-American history. That in the United States it came to be known, that it was exposed to the light and then allowed to fall back into the dark, makes the story of El Mozote — how it came to happen and how it came to be denied — a central parable of the Cold War.... (Submitted on May 12, 2015.)
Photographed By J. Makali Bruton, April 12, 2015
2. Wide view of El Mozote Children's Memorial Marker
The building in the background is the reconstructed Catholic church of El Mozote. Tiles with the names of the children found here are located along the base of the church.
Credits. This page was last revised on October 19, 2019. It was originally submitted on May 11, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana. This page has been viewed 710 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 11, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
