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Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
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Salvadoran Civil War
1979–1992 conflict in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by Cuba under Fidel…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador
Murders
On December 2, 1980, four female Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard. The victims were Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel and lay…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)