In 1982 before a Senate committee on the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, in which the Salvadoran Army killed more than 800 civilians during the Salvadoran Civil War, Enders attacked "New York Times" correspondent Raymond Bonner and "Washington Post" correspondent Alma Guillermoprieto, who had reported on the massacre. Enders stated that there had been a battle between guerrillas and the army but that "no evidence could be found to confirm that government forces systematically massacred civilians." Enders also repeated the claim that only 300 people had lived in Mozote, and it was impossible for the death toll to have reached that reported in the "Times" and "Post" stories.