Isidora describes the massacre of six women at El Rincón.
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We suffered so much, but before that, we were there during the Rincón Massacre that you asked about. I was in my father's house. They took the women from there. An ORDEN member who was well known was involved, they say. One of my sisters was with a woman in her house. My sister had gone to the woman's house because she was about to give birth. They came and made them get up, they said to her, "Get up!"
She pretended to be sick, so they left my sister, but not the other girl. No, they took her with them and she says that she saw how they hit her with the butt of their rifles. They hit her in the stomach over and over. They rounded up six women. They were all from the same... sisters, I think. Sisters-in-law, something like that. They took them away. They rounded up the six of them and they took them to the mother of two or three of them. I'm not sure how many they were. They said to her, "Are you going to take charge of these children?"
"No," they say she said, "I'm ill, I'm going to the clinic now."
"Well, if you don't take charge of them we'll kill them," they said.
They killed children too. Well, the woman, what could she do, she took charge of the children because there was nothing else to do. So they took away the women. They say, maybe someone was watching. They stripped them, they took them to a well, and they washed them and took them away, like cows. They arrived at my father's house. They came to his house. They raped them. He had rope; they weren't at home, but they had left their things. They raped them and hanged one of them. They took two of them to another house and put them in a wood stove. They poured gasoline on the wood, on the firewood and put them there. We don't know if they were alive or dead. You could smell the smoke... They strangled the others and threw them off the side of a hill. They found them in a ravine. They cut the pregnant woman and took out the baby. She was about to give birth.