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January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador. Retribution is swift. Afte three days, the army and militias move in and, in some villages, slaughter all males over age 12. Elsewhere, they summarily execute anyone suspected of having a link to the Communists. Over the next few weeks, 10,000 people are massacred. In Scars of Memory survivors share their memories, many for the first time.

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