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- Subject: EL SALVADOR: LACK OF AID PROJECTS COULD DELAY DEMOBILISATION
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- /** reg.elsalvador: 95.0 **/
- ** Topic: IPS: El Salvador - Lack of Aid **
- ** Written 7:12 am Jul 23, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: IPS: El Salvador - Lack of Aid
-
- /* Written 12:13 am Jul 23, 1992 by newsdesk in
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- Title: EL SALVADOR: LACK OF AID PROJECTS COULD DELAY
- DEMOBILISATION
-
- san salvador, july 20 (ips) -- the farabundo marti national
- liberation front (fmln) warned monday that the demobilisation of a
- second group of former combatants, scheduled later this month,
- might be delayed due to the lack of assistance programmes.
-
- according to fmln spokesman mauricio chavez, many of the 1,681
- combatants who surrendered their weapons on june 30 have returned
- to fmln camps because there are insufficient projects to assist
- their reinsertion into civilian life.
-
- chavez, who coordinates the guerilla re-insertion programme, said
- the ''fmln will not demobilise one more member until support
- projects are in place.''
-
- the peace accords, signed on january 16 by the fmln and the
- government, call for a phased demobilisation of fmln combatants,
- which should conclude in october.
-
- meanhwile, armed guerrillas remain concentrated in 15 special
- zones, under the obesrvation of the united nations mission in el
- salvador (onusal), which is monitoring the peace process.
-
- chavez said although the government had agreed to solve the
- guerrillas' logistical problems, efforts had focused only on
- providing subsistence and had not addressed the need to provide
- projects to support their re-insertion into civilian life.
-
- the criticism was also directed at the united states government,
- which the fmln says has witheld financial support for el
- salvador's national reconstruction plan.
-
- the plan will cost an estimated 2,200 million dollars, and the us
- has agreed to provide initial aid worth 250 million dollars.
-
- chavez said the fmln will send a letter to the us congress this
- week, warning that the present problems could delay the
- disarmament process, and calling for some of the funds to be
- assigned to assistance projects for demobilised fmln combatants.
-
- the fmln will also present an aid plan for demobilised guerrillas
- and their families, which includes education, housing and health
- programmes as well as assistance projects for war widows and
- wounded combatants.
-
- chavez said the fmln is seeking 21 million dollars from the
- european community to fund these projects. he added that germany
- has agreed to finance training programmes for 1,500 former
- combatants and the construction of 1,935 homes.
-
- for its part, the government announced monday that it will provide
- 94 million dollars to assist 39,000 or so demobilised members of
- the armed forces and 8,000 former guerrillas.
-
- an official communique says the aid package will include farming
- equipment and domestic appliances as well as training and
- rehabilitation programmes for the war-wounded.
- (ends/ips/trd/bf/sfi/cg/92)
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