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Article: Journey through Morazan; the lost people of La Joya. (civil war in El Salvador)
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- The Nation
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- June 21, 1986
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JOURNEY THROUGH MORAZAN The Lost People Of La Joya
La Joya is a place that does not officially exist. It is a hamlet in the rebel-controlled zone of northern Morazan province, El Salvador. About 200 people live there, amid a patchwork of dying cornfields, mescal cactus and the remains of several strafed and bombed farmhouses. They are survivors of a massacre. On December 11, 1981, the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of Mozote and some nearby hamlets, killing more than 1,000 people. The survivors fled into the forest.
Five years later they are still in hiding, haunted by the past, pursued by fears both real and imagined. They are ...