Civil War Massacres Aftermath The El Calabozo massacre was an incident during the Salvadoran Civil War on 21–22 August 1982, in which more than two hundred people, including children and elderly, were reportedly killed at El Calabozo by the Atlácatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.

In August 1982, the Salvadoran military attacked the San Vicente Department, an area where the rebel Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was known to have bases.

[1] On the night of August 21, a group of internally displaced people was overtaken beside the Amatitán river by the Atlácatl Battalion, a US-trained counter-insurgency unit.

[4] Minister of Defense José Guillermo García stated that the government had investigated the incident and determined that no massacre had taken place.

Though the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador documented the massacre's existence, the government closed the case in 1993 without charges.