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Correction: El Salvador-Massacre story

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains in El Mozote, El Salvador. Some 978 residents of the village of El Mozote, including 477 children, were killed in 1981 by soldiers who entered the area looking for guerrillas but who killed civilians instead, officials say. El Salvador's new President Nayib Bukele, who took office on June 1, 2019, promised to carry out the reparations ordered by an international court for relatives of the victims. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)

El Salvador’s new president vows reparations for massacre

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains, in El Mozote, El Salvador. A human rights advocate said Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 that Judge Jorge Guzman Urquilla has granted reopening a probe into the El Mozote massacre. A postwar truth commission concluded that the army massacred at least 500 people in El Mozote and surrounding villages in three days in December 1981. Victims’ rights advocates put the number closer to 1,000. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)

Judge orders reopening of El Salvador military massacre case

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press