In 1982 the Salvadoran government massacred 500+ peasants in El Mozote. Government troops slit children's throats & raped girls as young as 10. Elliott Abrams, then the "Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs," played a lead role in covering it up. pic.twitter.com/EyX3Akszl3

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 25, 2019