Bonner is best known as one of two journalists ( the other being Alma Guillermoprieto of '' The Washington Post '' ) who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre , in which some 900 villagers , mostly women , children and elderly , at El Mozote , El Salvador , were slaughtered by the Atlacatl Battalion , a unit of the Salvadoran army in December 1981 . A '' New York Times '' staff reporter at the time , Bonner was smuggled by Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) rebels to visit the site approximately a month after the massacre took place
El Mozote massacre
El Mozote massacre
Raymond Bonner