May
Advocacy, Historical Memory
Photos: Sumpul River massacre observance in Cambridge, Mass – May 14, 2007
This May, seven delegates from San Jose Las Flores, Chalatenango, traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the two communities’ sistering relationship. One of the most moving and memorable events of the sister communities’ time together was the spontaneous decision to go down to the Charles River on May 14 to observe the anniversary of the Sumpul River massacre.
Many of the delegates are survivors, or family of survivors, of the 1980 massacre, in which over 600 civilians were assassinated fleeing from the Salvadoran army on the banks of the Sumpul River. The Charles River commemoration took place simultaneously with the annual ceremony at Las Aradas, Chalatenango, the site of the massacre itself.
