On May 13 and 14, the 46th anniversary of the Sumpul River Massacre was commemorated in the village of Las Aradas.
The commemoration began on May 13 with the participation of individuals and organizations who decided to camp at the site and took part in the following activities:
Pilgrimage to the commemoration site
Ritual on the banks of the Sumpul River
Ritual and procession at the memorial
Cultural evening
On the second day, May 14, more people joined the commemoration, and the following activities took place:
Welcome and musical entertainment
Collective embroidery
Listening to survivors’ testimonies
Press conference
Performance by the RAÍCES Artistic Collective and Memoria Viva
Holy Mass in memory of the victims of the massacre
The commemoration was organized and carried out by the Chalatenango Historical Memory Collective and is supported by the research initiative “Historical Memory of Survivors in Postwar El Salvador,” which is partially funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Western University, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund.