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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: El Salvador: HR group demands prosecution of military officals
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- /** reg.elsalvador: 125.0 **/
- ** Topic: IPS:CDHES Calls For **
- ** Written 9:32 am Nov 1, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: IPS:CDHES Calls For
-
- /* Written 12:11 am Nov 1, 1992 by newsdesk@igc.apc.org in
- igc:ips.englibrary */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all
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- original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.
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- Title: EL SALVADOR: CDHES CALLS FOR PROSECUTION OF MILITARY
- OFFICIALS
-
- san salvador, oct 29 (ips) -- a salvadoran human rights
- organisation thursday demanded the prosecution of military
- officials implicated by a former soldier and ''death squad''
- member extradited from the united states last week.
-
- the demand issued by the non-governmental commission for human
- rights in el salvador (cdhes) claims that cesar joya martinez, a
- former member of army intelligence, should testify against
- officials that commanded his unit.
-
- since friday, joya has been held in mariona prison, 10 kilometers
- north of san salvador. according to cdhes, he has not made any
- declarations and is awaiting the appointment of defense council.
-
- daniel alcorm, a u.s. lawyer who represented joya in the united
- states, has asked the salvadoran government guarantee joya's
- safety while in custody.
-
- joya is scheduled to give testimony to the ''truth commission,''
- an instrument created as part of the peace accords signed between
- the government and the fmln guerrillas on jan. 16.
-
- the truth commission, comprised of three non-salvadorans, is
- investigating cases of human rights abuses committed during the 12
- year civil war between the government and fmln.
-
- joya, who fled el salvador in 1989, has denounced and provided
- first hand testimony as to the existence of death squads within
- the salvadoran military structure.
-
- in declarations to his lawyers, joya implicated high-level
- military officials, including current defense minister rene emilio
- ponce, as systematic human rights abusers.
-
- according to cdhes reports, joya himself is implicated in the
- torture and assassination of two men suspected of belonging to the
- fmln.
-
- the incident occurred in july of 1989, when members of the
- ''atlacatl'' battalion, the first infantry brigade of army
- intelligence (s-2), carried out an operation in nejapa, some 30
- kilometers north of the capital.
-
- during the operation, the atlacatl battalion captured six people,
- two of whom later died as a result of torture.
-
- both joya and salvador alcides gomez gomez were officially charged
- in the case, based on testimony from several of their
- subordinates. (more/ips)
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-
- el salvador: cdhes (2)
-
- according to cdhes, gomez gomez was released on nov. 28, 1989,
- when a judge declared there was ''insufficient evidence.''
-
- in terms of the trial awaiting joya, el salvador's minister of
- justice, rene hernandez, said the proceedings would be run just
- like any other judicial process and that significant information
- concerning the death squads could arise.
- (end/ips/trd/so/bf/cs/eli/92)
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