University Daily Kansan, March 1; 1983
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A woman cries and a government soldier is saddened after south of Suchitoto. The dead man was a member of El Salvador's learning of the death of her son and his best friend during fighting civilian guard and died as he rode a bus bombed by rebel forces.
An estimated 42,000 people have died as a result of more than three or identified, but left to insects and vultures. These remains were years of civil war in El Salvador. Many victims are never located one of eight dumped on a cliff near San Salvador.
Thirsty villagers and refugees lute up to await their turn at filling week, and some near the truck could not keep themselves from an empty water jugs. It was the first fresh water they had seen in a immediate taste as they bent to drink from leaks in the truck.
Two of the nearly 1,000 Salvadoran government soldiers marching toward besieged Suitbito tone on the road and await an order to begin search the jungle for rebel forces. The soldier on the left carries a U.S.-furnished M16 semi-automatic rifle; the one on the right holds an M60 machine gun.
Soldiers examine a charred bus destroyed by rebels to isolate the village of Suchitoto from the rest of El Salvador. A government army patrol manning the hilltop position in the background was not enough to stop the raid that left three dead.
Story and photos by Gary Smith
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