The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights

by Leigh Binford

Book Overview

The 1981 slaughter of more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote, El Salvador, by the country's U.S.-trained army was the largest massacre of the Salvadoran civil war. The story was covered--and soon forgotten--by the international news media. It was revived in 1993 only when the U.S. government was accused of covering up the incident.Such reportage, argues anthropologist Leigh Binford, sustains the perception that the lives of Third World people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516618
• ISBN13: 9780816516612
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Morazan: Blood stain from yesterday.

I met Leigh Binford in Dec 1994 during the burial of the 143 children and 2 adults that were sent back for the formal burial at El Mozote. Binfords analysis is more in depth than Danners dramatic book as far as cultural background and historical development of El Mozote and the state of Morazan in general. I currently am living in San salvador and right now they (Medicina Legal Forensics) are currently exhuming massacre remains near San Vicente. Too bad the whole worlds attention is so Pavlov to the Medias bidding to current events while the past -and current- U.S. Involvement in El Salvador is swept under the rug and hid behind low intensity conflict style blaming. "Oh its their fault" Yeah, we trained them, and knew it was going on all the time. Right NOW we are VERY involved in COLOMBIA, and everybody is just sitting and browsing the net with starbucks coffee., Lets get off our duffs and find out what's going on. "Oh, but wait.. I have to see if My plastic Horses have sold on Ebay." Good work LEIGH!