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According to Mark Danner, who is an authority on this massacre, the fact that the people in the village of El Mozote were largely Evangelicals is of some importance. I can't find any reference to this fact in this article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.146.188.99 ( talk • contribs) 09:17, 24 August 2005
I do not agree with the guerrilla inspired views of an outsider. The author of the article might be knowledgeable in the subject, but he was not here. Most foreigners fail to recognize the fact that the Department of Morazan, the province where the supposed Army massacre took place was crawling with guerrillas and their supporters. They also fail to recognize that most people in El Salvador credit the guerrillas for this massacre. Why? Because these organizations have always been in dispute, and El Mozote and other massacres were results of rivalries between the guerrillas. They also fail to report how guerrillas killed civilians who did not support them or paid their "war tax", and how the soldiers themselves were tortured and mutilated when they valiantly did not give up their rank and renounced to their place in the Salvadorean Armed Forces. Please note that the Guerrillas had a better propaganda tool than the government, sadly the Salvadorean Authorities could never match the isurgents' ability to "inform" the outside world. That being said, if Salvadoreans believe what is said in this article, they either support the guerrillas, blindly believe what our Education System teaches them or simply were not here.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.249.202.96 ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 6 December 2005
-- 190.62.78.198 ( talk) 22:22, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Atlacatonatl
Please sign your comments with ~~~~ and please don't put ugly lines acrioss this page. It is not wikipedia style, SqueakBox 17:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
The Reagan related claims are garbage. The U.S. did NOT support the death squad fascists. We did NOT support the commies either. We supported the Christian Democratic Party. Modern propaganda has led many people to believe that there were only two sides in this conflict. We supported the PDC and because of this they received 54% of the votes in El Salvador's first free election (over the ARENA and the FMLN) only three years after this massacre. This success was the work of the Reagan administration. 67.171.43.170 23:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I posted those original photos, and I have higher resolution images... somewhere. When I dig them up, I'll tag them appropriately. Rojazz 07:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't decide on the best place in the article to insert the fact that of 12 officers cited for the massacre, 10 had attended the School of the Americas (source: Frances T. Farenthold. "U.S. has no business training foreign thugs," USA Today, April 11, 1994, 9A). What seems to be the most logical spot? I was looking for a section mentioning the citation of 12 officers, but if it's there, I've missed it. Please advise on my Talk page. Lawikitejana ( talk) 01:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
The article was marked as unreferenced as far ago as in 2007 so per verifiability all unreferenced content must be cleaned up. Perhaps someone will then add sources. Luis Napoles ( talk) 09:14, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
It points to a German Thomas Enders.-- 88.66.250.250 ( talk) 13:48, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
The following is archived text retrieved from archive.org. It is no longer available on the web, as far as I know, with the exception of archive.org's page and google's cache. As such, I am producing it here for posterity purposes, should those copies be lost.
This may also be of interest: Journalism Under Fire: Reporting the El Mozote Massacre by Kris Kodrich
TPaineTX ( talk) 03:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Why is there such a discrepancy between the number of victims cited in the infobox (733-900) and the "at least 1000 civilians" mentioned in the intro? Any data to corroborate any of these figures? Cromag talk to me 16:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
There are a number of serious claims, including allegations of rape, that are uncited. 99.231.200.55 ( talk) 13:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Large portions of this bear such a close resemblance to this document (see p 105 ff) that it is difficult not to suspect copyvio. Kevin McE ( talk) 11:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
There is the usual leftist slant on this wiki article. wp losing credibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.32.0.193 ( talk) 16:26, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I think there is a very rightist slant to this article. Reagan and Abrams plus several other nasty characters role in this and its cover-up is grossly minimized. ( Reagan, I believe, was a tool due to mental problems even early in his term. I remember discussing at the cafeteria every morning the new Ronnie gaffe. When he thought he was in WWII, I knew he was just a figurehead.)
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00:28, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
I pulled this claim from the lead section, as it appeared to be linked only to a copyvio source of the original text: "As news of the massacre slowly emerged, the Reagan administration in the United States attempted to dismiss it because of its reflection of the human rights abuses of the Salvadoran government, which the U.S. was supporting with large amounts of military aid." [1]
This is also a big claim to be sourced only to "Covert Action Quarterly". Since it appears many large, mainstream publications have discussed the massacre, can we find a better source? I'll poke around some myself this morning, and see what I can turn up. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 14:48, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Search for the names "Elliot Abrams" and "Deane Hinton". Check out the book as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.59.153.5 ( talk) 15:57, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
References
A large number of phrases, sentences and sentence structures of this article appeared to have been lifted wholesale from this source. I've cleaned these up, and will also be making an effort over the next few days to source what I can from the article and remove unsourced material that I can't find a reliable source for. As a controversial event in both Salvadoran and US history, this strikes me as an article where good sourcing is essential. Any help would be welcome! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 22:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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Can information related to these new revelations be added to the article? 76.189.141.37 ( talk) 01:12, 27 January 2020 (UTC)