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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.093511.15310@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:35:11 GMT
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- "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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- "The military court system in El Salvador has routinely failed
- to prosecute military personnel accused of involvement in torture,
- "disappearance" and extrajudicial execution. The exclusive
- jurisdiction of the military courts over members of the armed forces
- provides a shield behind which armed forces personnel commit grave
- crimes with impunity."
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- --Amnesty International, _El Salvador: ``Death Squads'' -- A
- Government Strategy_
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