harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/08/91)
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NEWS SERVICE ON EL SALVADOR
for WEEKEND UPDATE, JANUARY 18-20, 1991
A Special Service of SALPRESS
BISHOP SAYS AVERTED ATTENTION ENDANGERS HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights violations in El Salvador may worsen because world
attention has shifted to the Persian Gulf war, according to San
Salvador's auxiliary bishop, Gregorio Rosa Chavez. [...]
On January 18, the independent Human Rights Commission (CDHES)
revealed that 1005 civilians were killed by the Salvadoran army in
1990. The commission blamed another 27 deaths on the Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front (FMLN) and 189 on death squads, defined as
armed men in plainclothes. The CDHES was unable to attribute 102
civilian deaths to either side.
November and December were reported as particularly fatal months, with
115 and 118 civilian deaths. Over these two months the army allegedly
killed 97 civilians and the FMLN, four.
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Former Ambassador White:
"President Bush described the Salvadoran revolutionaries as
`terrorists' and the Salvadoran Government as `a democracy'.
Wrong on both counts.
"The revolutionaries took up arms only after the military and economic
elites of El Salvador had rejected all avenues of peaceful change for
more than half a century. No competent observer doubts that
the Salvadoran revolution is home grown, authentic and enjoys wide
popular support... [the revolutionaries'] demand that the military
purge itself of its most notorious abusers of human rights was derided
as `absurd, ridiculous and impossible' [by the government]
"..The outdated security doctrine that guides Bush Administration
thinking demands the subordination of El Salvador's need for social
and economic justice to our supposed national security requirements.
This has meant the establishment of a veneer of democracy in El
Salvador, where the armed forces, with U.S. acquiescence, decide with
deadly force who can and cannot participate in political life. [...]
--Former U.S. Ambassador Robert White,
in the New York Times, Nov. 21, 1989
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