The Salvadoran Civil War was predominantly fought between the government of El Salvador against a coalition of four leftist guerrilla groups and one communist group known as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) between 1980 and 1992. The United States supported the right-wing government. blank">Supply Line for a Junta March 16, 1981, _TIME Magazine. Accessed online December 12, 2006 (fee-based archive). In total the civil war killed 75,000 people, blank">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/es.html _CIA World Factbook. Accessed online February 21, 2008. left 8,000 more missing and a million homeless with another million exiled. The war became notorious for government massacres and its Death Squad's killing of civilians, nuns and priests, such as the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero and for massacres at El Mozote.
