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 massacres[1][2][3] 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.
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas Day Massacre | 25 December 1922 | Downtown San Salvador | "dozens" | The Red League paramilitary, Salvadoran Army, National Police, and National Guard shot at a crowd of people supporting the presidential campaign of Miguel Tomás Molina ahead of the 1923 presidential election.[4] |
| La Matanza | 22 January 1932 – 11 July 1932 | Western El Salvador | 10,000[5] to 40,000 | 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)[6] | |
| Cathedral Slope massacre | 8 May 1979 | San Salvador Cathedral, San Salvador | 24[7] | Civil War followed |
