Sumpul River massacre

When

14 May 1980

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

300

Coordinates

14.13° N, 88.84° W

Description

1980 massacre in El Salvador

1980 massacre in El Salvador

Between 300 and 600 Salvadoran refugees were massacred while trying to cross the Sumpul River in Chalatenango, El Salvador, on May 13, 1980 during the Salvadoran Civil War. Salvadoran Armed Forces and pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive to disrupt the activities of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The offensive created many refugees, who were attacked by the Salvadoran forces.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en El Salvador, ocurre la Masacre del Sumpul la cual es considerada la primera masacre ocurrida durante el inicio de la guerra civil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page