From my experiences in El Salvador, I can tell you that there is often something unreal about cadavers. I remember one who only had drops of barely noticeable dried blood from his violent death. In la Colonia Universitaria Norte I saw four cadavers on the corner of Calle Conejo and while some had large exit wounds, a bit if time had changed them into something surreal. But there is no doubt that they were National University students who had been brain-washed by the communists, took up arms in November of 1989 and were soon killed by the Belloso Battalion of the Salvadoran Army. Many of the urban cell communist guerrillas wore civilian-looking but practical loafers with waffle-stomper soles, dark blue jeans, and dark t-shirts so they could move about appearing as civilians before picking up or pulling out weapons.
From what I have seen and read, volunteers are being taken in, organized, trained, given weapons and uniforms with white armbands to identify them as volunteer fighters.
‘We are a huge amount of ants’: the united front of Ukrainian volunteers