This evidence-led archive documents eight defining crimes, including the Las Hojas, Sumpul River, El Calabozo and El Mozote massacres, murdered missionaries and journalists, the UCA killings and the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero.
Judicially resolved parts of cases appear here. First-instance and final appellate outcomes are labeled separately.
Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen and Hans ter Laag were killed in a planned ambush. Three former officers were convicted in 2025.
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Eight people were killed at UCA in 1989. A Spanish court later convicted Inocente Montano for five murders; the judgment became final in 2021.
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The UN found that no fewer than 300 unarmed civilians were massacred at the border river. No final individual conviction was located.
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More than 200 displaced civilians were killed. Exhumations and arrest warrants followed, but no final individual conviction was located.
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Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan were murdered in 1980. Five guardsmen were convicted; the wider alleged chain of command was not fully adjudicated.
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Nearly 1,000 civilians were killed across seven communities. State responsibility is adjudicated; individual accountability remains incomplete.
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Romero was shot while celebrating Mass in 1980. International findings established a death-squad operation, but no final criminal conviction has resolved the case.
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The IACHR found El Salvador responsible for the summary execution of approximately 74 civilians. Domestic proceedings ended under an amnesty without final individual convictions.
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The UN Truth Commission found that Salvadoran forces massacred no fewer than 300 unarmed civilians and that Honduran forces blocked passage across the border.
The UN used a minimum of 300; survivor and later public accounts commonly cite more than 600.
No final individual criminal conviction was located.
No final Salvadoran criminal conviction has resolved the killing.
State responsibility is final, but individual criminal accountability remains incomplete.
The massacre is documented and arrest warrants were reported, but no final individual conviction was located.
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