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|Salvadoran Civil War| |Part of the Central American crisis| A
reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the Civil
War in El Salvador, Central America |Salvadoran government
forces|| FMLN |Commanders and leaders| | Roberto D'Aubuisson
José Guillermo García José Napoleón Duarte | Cayetano Carpio†
|Casualties and losses| |7,000 dead||20,000 dead4|
|70,000–80,000 (total dead); 8,000 disappeared56| The Salvadoran
Civil War (1979–1992) was a conflict between the military-led
government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National
Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or 'umbrella organization'
of five left-wing guerrilla groups. On October 15, 1979 a coup,
the first of three before the 1982 elections, led to the
killings of anti-coup protesters by the government as well as
anti-disorder protesters by the guerillas who also attacked the
government.7 By January 1980 the left-wing p