<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Salvadoran Civil War </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Part of the Central American crisis and Cold War </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> A billboard serving as a reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the Civil War in El Salvador . The Spanish inscription to the left reads in English: "They tore out the flower, however the roots are sprouting among us ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 15 October 1979--16 January 1992 (12 years, 3 months and 1 day) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> El Salvador </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992; </P> <Ul> <Li> Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces </Li> <Li> National Guard, National Police and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian - overseen police created) </Li> <Li> FMLN guerrilla are dissolved </Li> <Li> FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Salvadoran military government </P> <Ul> <Li> Paramilitary death squads </Li> <Li> Foreign mercenaries (unknown number, possibly hundreds) </Li> </Ul> <P> Supported by </P> United States Chile Argentina (1979--1982) Israel Taiwan </Td> <Td> <P> FMLN (CRM) </P> <Ul> <Li> FDR </Li> <Li> FPL </Li> <Li> RN (FAPU) </Li> <Li> PRTC (MLP) </Li> <Li> PCS </Li> </Ul> <P> Supported by </P> Cuba Nicaragua (1979--1990) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Roberto D'Aubuisson Álvaro Magaña José Guillermo García José Napoleón Duarte Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Alfredo Cristiani </Td> <Td> Schafik Handal Joaquín Villalobos Cayetano Carpio Salvador Sánchez Cerén </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> 9,850 (1980) 39,000--51,150 (1985) </P> 63,000--70,000 Some 55,000 Regulars and 15,000 paramilitary (1992) </Td> <Td> <P> 12,000--15,000 (1984) </P> 6,000--15,000 (1985) (probably 10,000) 8,000--10,000 (1992) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7,000 dead </Td> <Td> 20,000 dead </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> 70,000--80,000 (total dead); 8,000 disappeared; 550,000 internally displaced and 500,000 refugees in other countries </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Salvadoran Civil War </Th> </Tr>

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