Whereas January 16, 2023, marks the 31st anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords which formally ended the 12-year Salvadoran civil war and established the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (Truth Commission) that was charged with investigating and reporting to the Salvadoran people on human rights crimes committed by all sides during the course of the war; Whereas millions of Salvadorans in El Salvador and in diaspora communities throughout the United States and world continue to suffer from the multigenerational impact of the rampant destruction, violence, displacement, family separation, and trauma that the war inflicted on the country; Whereas the United States played a significant role in the civil war through its extensive military support for the Salvadoran army, and bears a special moral responsibility to support the Salvadoran people in their continued efforts to recover from the aftermath of the war; Whereas Salvadoran Army backed right-wing paramilitary death squads and left-wing guerrilla groups ravaged the country in a deadly spiral of political violence throughout the 1970s, with violence continuing to escalate after General Carlos Romero’s seized the Presidency in a fraudulent election in 1977; Whereas General Romero was ousted by a civil-military junta in a coup in October 1979, plunging El Salvador into a full-blown civil war; Whereas, in March 1980, Archbishop of San Salvador and critic of the military regime Oscar Romero was assassinated under the orders of the Salvadoran military, while presiding over mass, and the next week the Salvadoran military fired at the gathering of mourners grieving his death; Whereas, in December 1980, four American churchwomen were raped and murdered by members of the Salvadoran National Guard, leading to President Jimmy Carter’s decision to temporarily cut off military aid to El Salvador