La Matanza was the brutal repression of a peasant insurrection that occurred in El Salvador on this day in 1932, killing ~30,000 people. Among those killed were indigenous chief José Ama and communist revolutionary Farabundo Martí.

The Salvadoran army, vastly superior in terms of weapons and soldiers, indiscriminately executed those who stood against it.

The rebellion was a mixture of protest and insurrection which ended in state-sanctioned ethnocide, claiming the lives of an estimated 30,000, many of them indigenous Pipil people.

Among those assassinated in the uprising was Pipil chief José Feliciano Ama and Martí, who was executed by the state on February 1st. The Salvadoran Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is named after Martí.