List of massacres in El Salvador
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The following are lists of massacres that have occurred in El Salvador (numbers may be approximate). There were some 27 separate documented civilian massacresInforme de la Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador: “De la locura a la esperanza”, Naciones Unidas, San Salvador – Nueva York 1992-1993.Book "Condoning the killing : ten years of massacres in El Salvador" con introducción del senador Brock Adams.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120203155935/http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20061104/enfoques/635106.asp La muerte de los que no combatían en la guerra Revista Enfocus] in the Salvadoran Civil War era alone (1979–1989), in total the war directly claimed 70,000 to 80,000 lives. Additional ongoing violence related to the massacres and their obfuscation has claimed numerous activists, religious leaders, university professors, mayors, and foreigners in the decades following the civil war until the present day.
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Pre-civil war
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| La Matanza
| 22 January 1932 – 11 July 1932 | Western El Salvador | Led to decline of native Pipil (Nahuat) language and lack of linguistic self-identification due to induced climate of fear |
| Student massacre of 1975
| 30 July 1975 | National Hospital Rosales, San Salvador | unknown (over 100)El Universitario, Época XIII, No 14, 2010 | |
| Cathedral Slope massacre
| 8 May 1979 | San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador | Civil War followed |