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El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case

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1979 Jan 1
El Salvador
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Rosa Virginia Peletier orphanage
At least 787 children were stolen from families during the civil war. Some were sent to orphanages, where they were adopted internationally (US and other countries). Some were adopted by military families within El Salvador.The war lasted from 1979 to 1991. See these individual cases as well:

Imelda Auron and Maria Cebollero case
Imelda Lopez Lainez (Gina Marie Craig) case
Suzanne Marie Berghaus (Maria Sáenz Argueta) case
Jane Weideman Viasana case
Peter Cassidy (Ernesto Sibrian) case
El Salvador - Michael Kennedy (Jose Oliva) and his 3 sisters
child trafficking

Documents

Title Publication date
“Disappeared, Like Me” [film in production] 2009 Apr 1
Guatemala: Dirty war orphans put up for adoption 2009 Mar 23
A Daughter Stolen in Wartime Returns to El Salvador 2007 Apr 5
Reuniting Families Separated by War 2007 Jan 1
U.S. Team Transfers DNA Database to Salvadoran Group Searching for Children Who Disappeared in Civil War 2006 Jul 6
The Disappeared Children of El Salvador [Thesis] 2005 May
El Salvador's suffering lingers on 2004 Jul 9
El Salvador: Where are the "disappeared" children? [Amnesty International report] 2003 Jul 23
Special Report: International Adoption from Americas.org [Latin America] 2000 Nov 1
ADOPTEE TO BE REUNITED WITH SALVADORAN MOTHER 2000 Oct 30
More Casualties of War 2000 Mar 1
Healing ...on reuniting Salvadorans 1999 Nov 8
What Did You Do in the War, Mama? 1999 Feb 7
ANSWERS RAISE MORE QUESTIONS 1996 Aug 10
El Salvador's Stolen Children Face a War's Darkest Secret 1996 Aug 5
SOME ADMIT KNOWING OF KIDNAPPINGS 1996 Aug 2
A COUNTRY AWAKES TO THE REALITY OF IT'S `DISAPPEARED' CHILDREN 1996 Jul 14
War Orphan (60 minutes story) 1996
child trafficking
El Salvador, United States of America, Canada, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
San Salvador (El Salvadorean department)

Location

San Salvador