harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/08/91)
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Amnesty International report (see bottom) on:
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W h o a r e t h e v i c t i m s ?
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"All sectors of Salvadorian society have been the target of
``death squad''-style killings...in a great many cases the choice
of victim has been indicator of who lies behind the ``death
squads''. Those targeted have been members of groups perceived to
be in opposition to the government, or to represent a nucleus
around whom such opposition could coalesce, including students,
trade unionists, members of cooperatives, church workers and
peasants." [Page 25]
[The Brigada Maximiliano Herna'ndez Martinez, Maximiliano Herna'ndez
Martinez Brigade, is named after the Salvadoran general who ordered
the massacre of an estimated 30,000 peasants in 1932 in the wake of an
uprising (from the AI report, page 8)]
As the same reports documents,
"Efforts by El Salvador's independent and church-run human rights
organizations to investigate these killing have been hampered by
the harassment, intimidation, imprisonment, torture, mutilation,
extrajudicial execution and "disappearance" of their members..."
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[This 50 page report, with pictures (which are clearer in the Spanish
edition), is only $5 from Amnesty International, Publications, 322
Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001. Ask for "El Salvador: ``Death
Squads'' -- A Government Strategy", first published in October, 1988;
or call Amnesty at: (212)807-8400 (ask for "publications")]
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