1980s Anti War in El Salvador GOVERNMENT DEATH SQUADS FMLN Cause Protest Pin

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1 3/4 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
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This  pin was issued and sold circa 1980s to raise funds and support for the de-funding and elimination of the paramilitary Salvadorian Death Squads and their murdering of civilians opposed to the unlawful government, and to protest the role the U.S. and its master corporations doing business in El Salvador, here Folgers Coffee in supporting the government and the operations of the Death Squads.
The pin has nice graphics of a can of Folgers Coffee with a line through it.  The pin reads:
STOP FUNDING SALVADORAN DEATH SQUADS
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Death squads
in El Salvador were
far-right paramilitary groups
acting in opposition to left-wing guerrilla forces, most notably of the
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
, and their allies among the
civilian population
before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
The death squads committed the vast majority of the murders and massacres during the civil war
from 1979 to 1992 and were
heavily aligned with the United States-backed government.
During the civil war, the paramilitary death squads came to public attention when on
March 24, 1980, Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero was assassinated while giving Mass
.
The
US-trained Atlacatl Battalion
of the Salvadoran Army was responsible for committing
two of the largest massacres
during the civil war: the El Mozote massacre and the El Calabozo massacre.
The Salvadoran Civil War
was a
twelve year period
of war in El Salvador that was fought between
the government of El Salvador
and the
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of
left-wing
groups.
A coup on 15 October 1979
followed by
government killings of anti-coup protesters
is widely seen as the start of civil war. The war did not formally end until
16 January 1992
with the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City.
The United Nations (UN) reports that
the war killed more than 75,000 people between 1979 and 1992
, along with approximately
8,000 disappeared persons. Violations of the most basic human rights
– particularly the kidnapping, torture, and murder of suspected FMLN sympathizers by state security forces and
paramilitary death squads – were pervasive.
The unelected Salvadoran government was an
ally of the U.S
. During the Carter and Reagan administrations,
the US provided 1 to 2 million dollars per day in economic aid to the Salvadoran government
. The US also provided
significant training and equipment to the military
. By
May 1983
, it was reported that
US military officers were working within the Salvadoran High Command
and making important strategic and tactical decisions.
Counterinsurgency tactics implemented by the Salvadoran government often targeted civilian noncombatants
. Overall, the United Nations estimated that FMLN guerrillas were responsible for 5 percent of
atrocities
committed during the civil war, while
85 percent were committed by the Salvadoran security forces
.
Accountability for these atrocities has been hindered by a 1993 amnesty law. In 2016, however, the El Salvador Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional and that the Salvadoran government could prosecute suspected war criminals.
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