Trump adviser Elliott Abrams helped cover up U.S. involvement in the El Mozote Massacre, the largest mass killing in modern Latin American history, and Rep. llhan Omar isn’t letting him forget it.
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In US news, Ilhan Omar grilled Donald Trump adviser Elliott Abrams over his past cover-up of the U.S.-backed El Mozote Massacre of nearly 1,000 people in El Salvador.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): Whether under your watch a genocide will take place and you will look the other way, because American interests were being upheld is a fair question because the American people want to know anytime we engage a country, that we think about what our actions can be and how we believe our values are being furthered.
In 1981, nearly 1,000 people were murdered in the El Mozote massacre by the Atlacatl Battalion who were trained and supported by the U.S. Under the Reagan admin, Elliott Abrams distorted facts human rights abuses by the U.S.
Omar: On February 8, 1982, you testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about U.S. policy in El Salvador. In that hearing, you dismissed, as communist propaganda report, about the massacre of El Mozote in which more than 800 civilians, including children as young as 2 years old, were brutally murdered by U.S. troops. During that massacre, some of those troops bragged about raping a 12-year-old girl, girls, before they killed them. You later said U.S. policy in El Salvador was a fabulous achievement. Yes or no, do you still think so?
Elliott Abrams, Special envoy to Venezuela: From the day that President Duarte was elected in a free election, to this day, El Salvador has been a democracy. That’s a fabulous achievement.
Omar: Yes or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch?
Abrams: That is a ridiculous question.
Omar: Yes or no?
Abrams: No.
Omar: I will take that as yes.
Abrams: I will not respond to that sort of personal attack which is not a question.
Omar: Yes or no, would you support an armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide, if you believe they were serving U.S. interest as you did in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Abrams: I am not going to respond to that. I am not sure if this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions, and so I will not reply.
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