The Court issued its ruling for the El Mozote massacre, an incident (December 11 and 13, 1981) that shocked the entire country and around the world for the assassination of 800 to 1,200 people, mostly children and the elderly, in the El Mozote hamlet and surrounding areas by the Salvadoran Armed Forces.

Among those charged by the court are Luis R. Angulo, Rubén Zamora Rivas, Raúl Somoza Alfaro, Raúl Peña Flores, among others, some former deputies who were part of the board of directors of the Legislative Assembly in 1993.

According to local newspaper, the resolution declares that the crime of personal concealment attributed to the defendants is a crime against humanity and, consequently, imprescriptible, since it considers that they are related to acts of serious human rights violations.

The accusation attributes responsibility to the accused for “evading the action of the authorities” with the Amnesty Law promulgated in March 1993, “which guaranteed full and absolute impunity to the material and intellectual authors” of the El Mozote massacre.

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