It was one of the worst atrocities in El Salvador’s history. Now, almost four decades on, soldiers accused of rape and murder during the country’s civil war are belatedly standing trial
Marta was at her boyfriend’s house, moulding dough into circles to make tortillas, when five soldiers barged in. They forced the 19-year-old into the bedroom and raped her at gunpoint. Not long after that October afternoon in 1981, Marta fled her hometown of El Mozote in eastern El Salvador.
“The fear that they would come back and do what they did again always stayed with me,” says Marta. “Because that’s what they always did with the young women.”
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