Relatives and villagers hold a funeral to bury the exhumed and identified remains of 21 people killed during the El Mozote massacre, during the commemoration the 1981 killings, in El Mozote, 200 km east of San Salvador, on December 10, 2016.
In December 1981, during the 1980-1992 civil war in El Salvador, members of the US-trained Salvadoran elite Atlacatl battalion killed more than a thousand villagers during counterinsurgency operations in El Mozote and neighbouring villages, in what is known as the El Mozote massacre. / AFP / Marvin RECINOS (Photo credit should read MARVIN RECINOS/AFP/Getty Images)
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