The morning sun that rose over the hills of Morazán in December of 1981 should have been no different than any other, casting its soft gold tones across the valleys and the quiet farming villages of northeastern El Salvador. But for the people of El Mozote, a small rural community whose lives revolved around cornfields, …
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Silence and Steel: The Chinese Military Rolls Over Protesters at Tiananmen Square
In the dark, humid early hours of June 4, 1989, the sky above Beijing was ominously quiet, a strange calm hanging over a city bracing for something unspeakable. Beneath that sky, in Tiananmen Square—once a symbol of national pride and power, where dynasties once marched and where the Communist Party had long staged parades of …