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Title: 12 Campesinos Killed And Thrown Down A Well By Local Death Squads
Date: 1984-04-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran man speaks about the finding of twelve local campesinos who were killed and thrown down a 180-foot well, bottom center, in the village of Los Mangos, Sonsonate department, El Salvador, April 7, 1984. The two men implicated in the murder were members of a civil defense unit associated with local death squads. Civil defense patrols were utilized by the Salvadoran state regime as a form of paramilitary control, specifically over the rural sectors of society. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Death squads; Civilian casualties; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Human rights violations
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0304_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96432
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Title: 12 Campesinos Killed And Thrown Down A Well By Local Death Squads
Date: 1984-04-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran National Guardsman, right, speaks to the media, including radio reporter Edith Caron, left, about the killing of twelve local campesinos in the village of Los Mangos, Sonsonate department, El Salvador, April 7, 1984. The two men implicated in the murder, in which they reportedly threw the twelve men down a 180-foot well, were members of a civil defense unit associated with local death squads. Civil defense patrols were utilized by the Salvadoran state regime as a form of paramilitary control, specifically over the rural sectors of society. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Death squads; Civilian casualties; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Human rights violations
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Edith Caron
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0305_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96433
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 12 Campesinos Killed And Thrown Down A Well By Local Death Squads
Date: 1984-04-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A handcuffed Salvadoran man implicated in the killing of twelve local campesinos speaks to the media, including radio reporter Edith Caron, right, in the village of Los Mangos, Sonsonate department, El Salvador, April 7, 1984. The two men implicated in the murder, in which they reportedly threw the twelve men down a 180-foot well, were members of a civil defense unit associated with local death squads. Civil defense patrols were utilized by the Salvadoran state regime as a form of paramilitary control, specifically over the rural sectors of society. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Death squads; Civilian casualties; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Human rights violations
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Edith Caron
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0303_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96431
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Title: 12 Campesinos Were Thrown Down A Well and Killed By Local Death Squads
Date: 1984-04-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A crowd of local townspeople listen to a handcuffed Salvadoran man implicated in the killing of twelve local campesinos as he speaks to the media in the village of Los Mangos, Sonsonate department, El Salvador, April 7, 1984. The two men implicated in the murder, in which they reportedly threw the twelve men down a 180-foot well, were members of a civil defense unit associated with local death squads. Civil defense patrols were utilized by the Salvadoran state regime as a form of paramilitary control, specifically over the rural sectors of society. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Death squads; Civilian casualties; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Human rights violations
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0306_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96434
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 1982 Coup Planner Captain Rodolfo Muñoz
Date: 1982-03-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A view of Captain Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, center, as he walks down a hallway in the Guatemalan National Palace on March 23, 1982, after the military coup d'etat that installed General Ríos Montt into power. Captain Muñoz was the mastermind behind the military coup.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Cold War
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0117_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 25th Anniversary of the liberation of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Date: 2007-04-25
Creator: Child, Jack
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Military helicopters -- South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands); Marines -- South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands); South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands); South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands) -- Pictorial works; Postage stamps -- South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands); First day covers (Philately) -- South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands); Cachets (Philately) -- South Georgia (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands)
Local Identifier: JCSC_0066
Type: postage stamp
Collection: Jack Child Stamp Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSC_0066

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran army soldier stands over a dead guerrilla from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberacion, FPL, killed in a battle in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. The Salvadoran army lost 57 soldiers in the battle while FPL guerrillas lost 16 when they attacked two army positions 20 miles from San Salvador, the nation's capital. The twelve-year armed conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0299_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96427
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers gather body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. FPL guerrillas lost 16 fighters when they attacked two army positions 20 miles from San Salvador, the nation's capital. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0301_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96429
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers gather body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. FPL guerrillas lost 16 fighters when they attacked two army positions 20 miles from San Salvador, the nation's capital. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0302_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96430
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers gather the body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. Guerrillas attacked two army positions in Tejutepeque, 20 miles from San Salvador, and reported 16 of their own killed in the ambush. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war that claimed over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0054_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96182
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers gather the body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. Guerrillas attacked two army positions in Tejutepeque, 20 miles from San Salvador, and reported 16 of their own killed in the ambush. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war that claimed over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0055_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96183
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers gather the body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. Guerrillas attacked two army positions in Tejutepeque, 20 miles from San Salvador, and reported 16 of their own killed in the ambush. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war that claimed over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0056_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96184
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Photographers record the aftermath of a battle while Salvadoran army soldiers gather body bags of 57 dead soldiers killed by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. Guerrillas attacked two army positions in Tejutepeque, 20 miles from San Salvador, and reported 16 of their own killed in the ambush.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Media; Foreign correspondents
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Roland Neveu; James Nachtwey
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0242_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96709
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Title: An Activist Chilean Priest Speaks During Anti-Pinochet Protests
Date: 1985-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Catholic priest speaks at a church in the La Victoria neighborhood during anti-Pinochet street demonstrations in Santiago, Chile, September 1985.
Subject: Chile; Government; Augusto Pinochet; Dictatorship; Salvador Allende; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Liberation Theology; Military Ceremony; Military; Social Welfare; Poverty; Daily Life; Human Rights Violations; Desaparecidos; Activism; La Moneda Palace; Cold War; Anti-communism
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: chile_ct_0035_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Aerial view of Fort Gulick and United States Army School of the Americas on left
Creator: Child, Jack
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Military bases -- Panama; Military education -- Panama; Panama -- Description and travel; Panama -- Pictorial works
Local Identifier: JCSL_3797
Type: color slide
Collection: Jack Child Slide Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_3797

Title: Aerial view of planes on Howard Air Force base
Creator: Child, Jack
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Military bases -- Panama; Airplanes -- Panama; Panama Canal (Panama); Panama -- Description and travel; Panama -- Pictorial works
Local Identifier: JCSL_3792
Type: color slide
Collection: Jack Child Slide Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_3792

Title: Aerial view of trees with Howard Air Force base in background
Creator: Child, Jack
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Military bases -- Panama; Panama -- Description and travel; Panama -- Pictorial works
Local Identifier: JCSL_3848
Type: color slide
Collection: Jack Child Slide Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_3848

Title: An Alpha 66 group member takes a mock hostage during group training, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0862
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66822
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Alpha 66 group members walk on a gravel path during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0860
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66820
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: An Alpha 66 volunteer looks into a car side mirror during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0867
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66827
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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