Funes will review the report of the United Nations on human rights violations

The President Mauricio Funesanunció yesterday that, as Chief and Commander of the armed forces, had resolved "the revision of the report of the Commission on the truth", which developed nations, where identified serious violations of human rights abuses during the civil war in El Salvador.

, The representative apologized on behalf of the State for the killing of 936 people in one of the most atrocious massacres perpetrated during the civil war to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended 12 years of war yesterday.

"By this massacre, by aberrant human rights violations and abuses perpetrated in the name of the Salvadoran State apologize to the families of the victims", said Funes in the Act of commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the peace accords that ended 12 years of civil war that left 75,000 dead and about 12,000 u000amissing.

"Apologise to mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters who do not know the whereabouts of their loved ones until the present day." "Apologize to the people of El Salvador who was the victim of the appalling and unacceptable violence", expressed the Salvadoran President before thousands of farmers who arrived in the hamlet El Mozote in the Department of Morazán, 210 km east of the capital.

This town was the scene between 11 and 13 December 1981 of an operation launched by the now-defunct battalion Atlacatl in which about 1,000 people were killed.

Trained by United States soldiers entered the area in search of guerrillas of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la national liberation (FMLN), but the RAID killed civilians who have found in the place.

Many of the bodies of the victims were thrown in the interior of a small church and then proceeded to set fire to her, u000aAccording to the records of a Commission on the truth of the UN.

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