INQUIRER.net: Soldiers stole children during El Salvador’s war

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Soldiers stole children during El Salvador's war Feb 23rd 2013, 02:15 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador— One of Gregoria Contreras' first childhood memories was the moment she last saw her parents. Fighting between government troops and guerrillas had broken out around the 4-year-old girl's family home in the countryside of this Central American country. The soldiers took advantage of the confusion and seized Contreras and her two siblings, who were under the age of 2. "We all fled the house and suddenly it all ended because they captured us and our parents disappeared," said Contreras, now 35 and living in neighboring Guatemala. Contreras was just one of hundreds of children who disappeared under a variety of circumstances during El Salvador's brut... Keep on reading: Soldiers stole children during El Salvador’s war Media files: El-Savador.jpg (image/jpeg)

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