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- Title
- A Displaced Father And Son In Liberated FPL Territory in Chalatenango Department
- Date
- 1981-02-21
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- In territory held by leftist guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, a displaced father holds his son near Santa Anita, Chalatenango department, February 21, 1981. About a quarter of the country’s population, nearly one million people, are thought to have been displaced during the twelve-year civil war, half of them internally while the other half fled abroad. A large number of Salvadorans who fled abroad to escape the civil war sought refuge in the United States.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Refugees; Internally displaced peoples (IDP); Human rights violations; Daily life
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0002_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96469
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- Title
- Dutch Human Rights Investigative Team Leaving Camino Real Hotel In San Salvador
- Date
- 1982-03-22
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A group of human rights investigators from Holland leave the El Camino Real Hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 22, 1982. The group came to investigate the death of four Dutch journalists shot and killed by Salvadoran security forces while they were pursuing an interview with leftist guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, in the Chalatenango department. The Salvadoran government and the United States embassy in El Salvador denied knowledge of the ambush, claiming that the journalists were caught in an ongoing firefight between guerrilla soldiers and the military. This fact was later refuted with witness testimony in the 1993 publication of the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Military; Counterinsurgency; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Civilian casualties; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0164_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96292
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- Title
- D’Aubuisson Meets Archbishop Rivera y Damas
- Date
- 1983-06-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Roberto D'Aubuisson (1944-1992), center left, shakes hands with Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas (1923-1994), right, at an event in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 1983. Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925-2001), center, looks on. D’Aubuisson helped establish the paramilitary network of death squads around the country in the late 1970s was named responsible as giving the orders for the assassination of Rivera y Damas’ predecessor, Archbishop Óscar Romero, on March 24, 1980.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Government; Oligarchy; Human rights violations; Death squads; Roberto D'Aubuisson; Arturo Rivera y Damas; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; Óscar Romero
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roberto D'Aubuisson; Arturo Rivera y Damas; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0254_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96721
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- Title
- D’Aubuisson Meets Monsignor José Oscar Barahona Castillo
- Date
- 1983-06-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Roberto D'Aubuisson (1944-1992), left, shakes hands with Roman Catholic Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo (1938-2016), right, at an event in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 1983. Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925-2001), center, looks on. D’Aubuisson founded the extreme right-wing political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, in 1980. He was known to have close ties to the death squads and had a reputation for extreme violence.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Government; Oligarchy; Human rights violations; Death squads; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roberto D'Aubuisson; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; José Oscar Barahona Castillo
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0255_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96722
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- Title
- ERP Prisoner Held By Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
- Date
- 1983-12-16
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, left, is guarded by a soldier from the Salvadoran army in Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel department, El Salvador, December 16, 1983. The ERP prisoner was captured during a military operation by the Atlacatl Battalion in the coffee producing hills of the San Miguel department and claimed he was forced into joining the leftist guerrilla group.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Military; Counterinsurgency; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Communism; Human rights violations; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Atlacatl Battalion
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0283_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96411
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- Title
- Executed Body In A Ditch
- Date
- 1982-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A woman looks at the body of an executed man left in a ditch in the city outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, February 1, 1982. The twelve-year armed conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Civilian casualties; Human rights violations
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0234_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96701
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- Title
- Exhumed Body Of A Disappeared Victim In San Salvador
- Date
- 1984-01-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of a local human rights commission look at the body of an exhumed civilian in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1984. The victim was presumably killed by a paramilitary death squad. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Human rights violations; Death squads; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0046_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96174
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- Title
- FMLN Attack In Santa Clara Kills 6 Civil Defensemen
- Date
- 1982-07-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Civilians look over the dead bodies of three civil defensemen killed during an overnight attack by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Santa Clara, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. Civil defense patrols were utilized by the authoritarian state regime as a form of paramilitary control, specifically over the rural sectors of society. It is reported that the civil defense patrols along with the Salvadoran National Guard were complicit in indiscriminate attacks on peasant cooperatives and villages suspected of subversive sympathies.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Counterinsurgency; Civilian casualties; Human rights violations; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0146_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96274
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- Title
- FMLN Attack In Santa Clara Kills 6 Civil Defensemen
- Date
- 1982-07-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- The sister of a civil defenseman faints upon hearing of the death of her brother during an overnight attack on the civil defense post in Santa Clara, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. Guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, attacked overnight killing six civil defensemen before Salvadoran army soldiers arrived the next morning to retake the town, 50 kms from San Salvador. Civil defense units in El Salvador were under military command and operated particularly in rural areas where guerrilla support was high.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0074_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96202
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- Title
- FMLN Attack In Santa Clara Kills 6 Civil Defensemen
- Date
- 1982-07-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Civilians look over the dead bodies of three civil defensemen killed during an overnight attack by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Santa Clara, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. Civil defense units in El Salvador were under military command and operated particularly in rural areas where guerrilla support was high.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0020_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96487
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- Title
- Four Dutch Journalists Killed in El Salvador During Trip to Interview FMLN Guerrillas
- Date
- 1982-03-19
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of the media gather in a funeral parlor to film the dead body of a Dutch journalist killed in guerrilla territory two days earlier, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 19, 1982. Jacobus (Koos) Koster, Hans Ter Laan, Jan Kuiper and Johannes (Joop) Willemsen were shot and killed by Salvadoran military forces while they were pursuing an interview with leftist guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, in the Chalatenango department. The Salvadoran government and the United States embassy in El Salvador denied knowledge of the ambush, claiming that the journalists were caught in an ongoing firefight between guerrilla soldiers and the military. This fact was later refuted with witness testimony in the 1993 publication of the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Military; Counterinsurgency; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Civilian casualties; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0136_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96264
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- Title
- Fourth Anniversary Of Archbishop Óscar Romero's Assassination In San Salvador
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An elderly woman is helped into a Roman Catholic church by family members on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0106_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96234
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- Title
- Fourth Anniversary Of The Killing Of Archbishop Óscar Romero
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A woman lights a votive candle on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson. The martyred Romero was officially canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0107_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96235
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- Title
- Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
- Date
- 1984-10-27
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran military officers and civilians carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army's best field officer.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa; Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0034_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96162
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- Title
- Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
- Date
- 1984-10-27
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran military officers carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa in a funeral procession with his wife, back center, and family following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0219_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96686
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- Title
- Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
- Date
- 1984-10-27
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- The wife of the late Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa prays over his coffin in a funeral procession with Salvadoran military officers and family following Monterrosa’s death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0220_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96687
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- Title
- Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
- Date
- 1984-10-27
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, left, and the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, right, at the funeral procession with Monterrosa’s family and military officers following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0221_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96688
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- Title
- Funeral For Salvadoran Army Major Armando Azmitia
- Date
- 1984-10-27
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran military officers and civilians carry the coffin of Major Armando Azmitia following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. Among those killed in the explosion were Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa and other field commanders of high rank. Azmitia was commander of the Atlacatl Battalion, the United States-trained rapid reaction unit directed by Monterrosa until he was elevated to regional command in November of 1983. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military funerals; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Armando Azmitia; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0031_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96159
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- Title
- Funeral Procession For ARENA Member
- Date
- 1982-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- View of mourners in a funeral procession for a member of the political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, who was killed during the 1982 campaign for presidential elections, central El Salvador, March 1, 1982. ARENA was founded in 1981 from a convergence of the landowning oligarchy and the extreme anti-communist right. The party received formative support from Guatemala’s fascist ultra-right political party Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, National Liberation Movement, MLN, and from influential members of the Republican party of the United States. Founding member and party leader Roberto D’Aubuisson was known to have close ties to the death squads and had a reputation for extreme violence.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Funerals; Death squads; Human rights violations; Right-wing extremists; Oligarchy; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0018_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96485
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- Title
- General Bustillo Award US Advisors
- Date
- 1983-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran Air Force General Juan Rafael Bustillo, left, pins a medal onto the chest of a United States Army military advisor during a graduation ceremony for a Salvadoran battalion at Ilopango military air base, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 1, 1983. On January 29, 2020, the U.S. State Department officially designated thirteen former members of the Salvadoran military—including Bustillo—as gross human rights violators for their involvement in the extrajudicial killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America, UCA, on November 16, 1989. The deaths marked a turning point in the decade-long U.S. support for the military in El Salvador’s civil war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military ceremonies; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Human rights violations; Juan Rafael Bustillo
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Juan Rafael Bustillo
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0023_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96490
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