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U.S. voices concern over Salvadoran court's arrest warrants for ex-president Cristiani and others, linked to the 1981 El Mozote massacre cover-up

El Salvador: Arrest warrant for ex-president Cristiani for massacre of villagers. He is said to have helped the perpetrators to avoid punishment. About a thousand people were murdered in the village of El Mozote. The massacre was the bloodiest episode of the civil war from 1980 to 1992, during which about 80,000 people were killed or disappeared – and is considered the worst massacre in Latin America's recent history. Cristiani had ruled the Central American country between 1989 and 1994, but his whereabouts are unknown.

A court in the Salvadoran city of San Francisco Gotera has issued a warrant for the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) and some former lawmakers for their alleged involvement in the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which around 1,000 peasants were killed during the civil war (1980-1992).