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- Subject: SALPRESS News 8/16, 8/18
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- ** Topic: SALPRESS News 08/16/92 **
- ** Written 4:15 pm Aug 20, 1992 by salpress in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
- NEWS SYNTHESIS ON EL SALVADOR
- WEEKEND SUMMARY for AUGUST 14 - 16, 1992
-
- A Special Service of SALPRESS
-
- CHURCH HOPES FOR GOOD NEWS FROM GOULDING'S VISIT
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- San Salvador's auxiliary bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez said the
- Catholic Church hopes for "good news" from U.N. Secretary Adjunct
- Marrack Goulding's meeting with the government and the Farabundo
- Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) to get the country's peace
- process back on track. The U.N. official arrived in El Salvador
- on August 13 for a "routine" two-day visit, which was prolonged
- an additional two days. Rosa Chavez said extension of
- Goulding's visit is a positive sign since the officials "isn't
- staying on to go to the beach, but to work, which means there are
- important topics still under discussion." While President
- Alfredo Cristiani denies that there are serious problems with the
- country's pacification process, the insurgents say the government
- is violating more than 40 accords. Turning to the issue of a
- wave of attacks against the Salvadoran opposition, the bishop
- wondered "how much of the violence is intentionally provoked to
- sabotage the peace process?" "This is a question that those who
- have the power to investigate (these crimes) should ask
- themselves," he said.
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- NEWS SYNTHESIS ON EL SALVADOR is a service of the Salvadoran
- Press Agency (SALPRESS) available Monday through Friday. For
- more information, phone or fax: 011-525-21-9096.
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- ** Topic: SALPRESS News 08/18/92 **
- ** Written 4:16 pm Aug 20, 1992 by salpress in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
- NEWS SYNTHESIS ON EL SALVADOR
- for TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1992
-
- A Special Service of SALPRESS
-
- TODAY'S TOPICS:
- CHANGES IN ACCORDS CALENDAR
- ARMY OFFICIALS LISTED AS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS
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- CHANGES IN ACCORDS CALENDAR
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- U.N. Secretary Adjunct Marrick Goulding announced yesterday that
- he presented the Alfredo Cristiani government and the Farabundo
- Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) with a revised calendar on
- some of the key points of the peace settlement. Goulding made
- the revelation at a press conference just before his return to
- New York. The top U.N. official spent four days-two more than
- originally planned-meeting with the two sides in San Salvador to
- try to resolve problems in peace accords implementation.
- Goulding denied that there is a "crisis" in the peace process, as
- claimed by the FMLN, but recognized that serious delays in
- accords compliance have arisen He specified problem areas as
- cease fire matters, the reincorporation of former combatants into
- civilian life, the Armed Forces, and the creation of the new
- National Civil Police. Nonetheless, the official said extension
- of his stay in El Salvador owed to progress made in the talks
- with the two sides, rather than any problems. In addition to the
- above-mentioned problem areas, the revised calendar treats the
- issues of land redistribution and the return of civil authorities
- to once-conflictive areas. But Goulding clarified that no change
- was made in the peace process' finalization date, October 31,
- 1992, by which time the majority of the accords are to have been
- implemented. the diplomat said that he will present the new
- calendar to the U.N. Secretary General Boutros Ghali for his
- evaluation by September 16. He said he urged both sides to
- fulfill their obligations with the peace process, because "what
- we want isn't more discussions, more debate, but concrete action
- on the ground."
-
- ARMY OFFICIALS LISTED AS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS
-
- Salvadoran Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Mauricio Vargas, is one
- top-ranking officer named on a Salvadoran Human Rights Commission
- (CDHES) list of military officials accused of violating human
- rights. In a San Salvador press conference yesterday, CDHES
- leader Celia Medrano revealed that the list of 78 officers will
- be submitted to the Ad Hoc Committee, the panel created by the
- country's peace settlement to review the records of military
- personnel. Those found guilty of abuse and corruption will lose
- their posts. Other top military officials mentioned on the list
- of both retired and active officers include the deputy defense
- minister, Gen. Juan Orlando Zepeda and the president of the state
- power company, retired colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Perez. Medrano
- said her group hopes that the Ad Hoc Commission will fulfill
- Salvadorans' expectations. "The result of its evaluation should
- be to assure a true purging inside the Armed Forces," she said,
- noting that, otherwise, the country faces the danger of further
- institutionalized human rights violations. Medrano urged the
- review panel to extend work beyond the August 19 end of its
- mandate "because it is important that the commission take on an
- objective, impartial evaluating role" free of direct or indirect
- threats. She explained that the CDHES has already turned in
- information on 209 well-documented cases of human rights abuses
- by members of the military, committed since 1980. Medrano
- criticized the army for apparently trying to pre-empt the panel's
- work by granting honorable retirements to officials implicated in
- human rights abuses. She said the guilty officials have to
- answer for their crimes; it's "their responsibility to Salvadoran
- society."
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- NEWS SYNTHESIS ON EL SALVADOR is a service of the Salvadoran
- Press Agency (SALPRESS) available Monday through Friday. For
- more information, phone or fax: 011-525-21-9096.
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