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- <text id=93TT1386>
- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: Preserving Impunity
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- Preserving Impunity
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The evidence says Salvadoran soldiers killed tens of
- thousands of people during the 12-year civil war. Yet only one
- senior military officer has ever been convicted in a human-rights
- case. Under the new amnesty law, even that won't stick. The
- government has released Colonel Guillermo Benavides, previously
- sentenced to 30 years for the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit
- priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Amnesty will also
- prevent future trials for those accused of wartime excesses,
- including Defense Minister Rene Emilio Ponce, accused of
- planning the murders.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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