"A war of extermination and genocide against a defenseless civilian population."

Jimmy Carter launches a terrorist war with Jose Napoleon Duarte serving as cover to ensure that arms would flow to the killers. 50-75,000 El Salvadorans are killed in course of what Bishop Rivera y Damas, who succeeded the assassinated Archbishop Romero, described on October 1980 as "a war of extermination and genocide against a defenseless civilian population." The security forces who perform these necessary chores were hailed by Duarte, a few weeks later, for their "valiant services alongside the people against subversion" while he conceded that "the masses were with the guerrillas" when this exercise began under the Carter-Duarte Alliance.