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  2. <title>
  3. Mar. 29, 1993: The Truth Hurts
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
  7. Mar. 29, 1993  Yeltsin's Last Stand
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. THE WEEK, Page 14
  13. WORLD
  14. The Truth Hurts
  15. </hdr>
  16. <body>
  17. <p>A U.N. commission calls for sanctions against El Salvador's
  18. war criminals
  19. </p>
  20. <p>     Long before the 12-year civil war ended in 1992, Salvadorans
  21. knew who had fired the bullets that left 75,000 dead. About
  22. 2,000 people gave testimony--often anonymously--to the
  23. U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission set up last year to investigate
  24. the war's mass executions and other atrocities. With its
  25. 800-page final report, the commission confirmed that 85% of the
  26. war crimes were committed by government-directed anticommunist
  27. forces, including the Salvadoran army and free-lance death
  28. squads, backed in some cases by wealthy, conservative citizens.
  29. The report accuses General Rene Emilio Ponce, the current
  30. Defense Minister, of plotting the 1989 murder of six Jesuit
  31. priests and two others. Leftist F.M.L.N. rebels, the commission
  32. concluded, also carried out assassinations and kidnappings, but
  33. more selectively. The commission recommended that 40 military
  34. officers be suspended immediately and that five F.M.L.N. leaders
  35. be barred from public office for 10 years. Eager to promote
  36. reconciliation, however, the National Assembly at week's end
  37. voted a general amnesty for the accused on both sides of the
  38. conflict.
  39. </p>
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  41. </body>
  42. </article>
  43. </text>
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