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IN 1981, Edward Bonner — then reporter for the New York Times — and photojournalist Susan Meiselas were smuggled into Morazan by guerilla forces at the height of the El Salvadorian civil war.
The war was being fought between the Reagan-backed Salvadorian government (then a tenuous pact between oligarchs and the military) and the left-wing, umbrella coalition, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
After a long and treacherous journey, Bonner and Meiselas came upon the humble mountain town of El Mozote, or rather, the rubble, ash and corpses that remained.
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