On this day in 1977, following fraudulent elections that put General Romero in power, the right-wing Salvadoran military viciously attacked anti-government protesters in San Salvador, killing between 200 and 1,500 people.

The protest was anti-government in character, and took place following fraudulent elections earlier that year, in which the National Opposing Union (Spanish: "Unión Nacional Opositora", UNO), a political coalition composed of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement, and the Nationalist Democratic Union, had "lost" to the right-wing, military-controlled National Conciliation Party.

On February 28th, 1977, a crowd of political demonstrators gathered in downtown San Salvador to protest the electoral fraud. Security forces arrived on the scene and opened fire, resulting in a massacre as they indiscriminately killed demonstrators and bystanders alike.

Estimates of the number of civilians killed range between 200 and 1,500. The casualties were underreported by the New York Times, which reported on March 1st, 1977 that only six people had been killed. President Molina blamed the protests on "foreign Communists" and immediately exiled a number of top UNO party members from the country.

One of the consequences of the massacre was the formation of "February 28 Popular Leagues" (Spanish: "Ligas Populares 28 de Febrero", LP-28), a movement launched in September 1977 by the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), functioning as its mass front.

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  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    i literally just posted, 24 hour megathreads are too fast and inhibit posting by reducing the value of posting at the uncertainly timed end of a megathread cycle

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        it should be a megathread a week, with a several hour window where both are up so people can get that last little bit of posting in if they were replying to something

        • ElGosso [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Nah, I think a 48-hour thread would be fine, but I like the idea of buffer time.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Megathread duration will be varied by one standard deviation every day to keep everyone's posting game strong