Nelson describes the burial of women killed at the El Rincón massacre and explains why after 1980 the civilian population and guerrilla stopped burying their dead.
- Interviewee:
- Nelson
Transcription
Then we came and found those six women who were dead. Later, in a tatú that we had by the banks of the Manaquil River, a tatú the Rincón community had, we buried them all together. After that time, towards the beginning of 1980, we began to bury people. Later we stopped because the national command ordered us not to. When the army killed people, they pretended to leave and then would return to the same place to set up an ambush. When people stopped to pick up dead bodies and bury them, the army ended up killing more people. That’s why we couldn’t bury people anymore.