What the records say
- When
- 30 Jul 1975
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 50
- Coordinates
- 13.70° N, 89.18° W
- Description
- March of students of the University of El Salvador against the military government in 1975
1975 Salvadoran student massacre
1975 massacre in El Salvador
The 1975 Salvadoran student massacre occurred during the waning years of El Salvador's military dictatorships and was an important event in the buildup to the country's civil war. This massacre of an unknown number of student demonstrators was led by then-President Colonel Arturo Armando Molina and General Carlos Humberto Romero and took place in San Salvador, the country's capital, during the events of the Miss Univ…
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