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Could you describe for what we’re looking at in this moment?

Under what conditions did these people die?

How many people did they kill here?

Do you know how many children they killed here in this zone?

We repeat, the scenes that we are seeing at this moment show us the genocidal character of the high military command. Here in El Junquillo, we see the footprint of the beast of what it means for El Salvador to have a dictatorship that has lost all sense of humanity, that desperately assassinates peasants, women, and children, whether they’re organized or not.

Compañero, where did they find the body of the young woman?

Now we are the second burnt house here in El Junquillo. This is where Napoleon Medina Garay ordered the assassination of a barely two-day-old baby. Everything is destroyed, absolutely everything--beds, chairs. Nothing is whole here, nothing is in its perfect state.

Was it here where they found a two-day-old baby with a machete run through him?

At this moment, Radio Venceremos has found a few female comrades, survivors of the killing at El Junquillo. With us now is comrade Marlene.

Marlene, could you tell us for Radio Venceremos what family you lost here in the El Junquillo Massacre?

Tell us how everything happened.

What’s your name?

Tell us, did you, too, lose your family in El Junquillo?

Seven from your family?

Who was responsible?

¿From Cacaopera? ¿Along with Medina Garay?

In this house that we’re passing, they also killed there. How many people?

Now we’re crossing the El Chupadero river. We continue to move across the El Junquillo village and see the desolate landscape, the burnt houses, the human remains.

In this opportunity we’ve found a peasant from this area, and his name is Filadelfo. In these moments we’re arriving at a house were his wife and children lived. It’s a return to a painful memory that Filadelfo has wanted to make so he could show the world all the horror and the entire genocidal nature of what happened in this area of El Junquillo. Comrade, tell us how many people lived in this house.

Your wife died. Who else?

¿How many of your children did they kill?

What ages were your children?

A two-month baby?

With us is another comrade survivor of the massacre of El Junquillo. Comrade, tell us how everything happened.

And that the 12th of March?

Why did many of the people not run when the soldiers arrived?

Now we are here with a girl survivor also of the El Junquillo Massacre. What’s your name?

Tell us, Victoria. How did all of this happen in El Junquillo?

How many people in your family did Medina Garay assassinate?

And you were able to flee before the soldiers arrived?

I’m sorry, your maicillo is burning. What do you want for El Salvador?

How old are you?

Yes.

What does a liberated country mean for you?