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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- EL SALVADOR NEWSBRIEFS/ED-LP
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- from El Diario La Prensa
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- EL MOZOTE WITNESSES TELL THEIR STORIES
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- The only survivor of the massacre of over one thousand
- peasants at El Mozote in El Salvador still hears, eleven yers
- later, the screams of her four children as they were being
- murdered by elite soldiers with machetes on the morning of
- December 11, 1981. Rufina Amaya told EFE she still hears her
- children screaming "Mama, they're killing us, they're attacking
- us with machetes, mama." The children were 9, 5, 3 and an infant
- of 8 months. The soldiers accused the residents of the village
- of being members of the FMLN. Amaya recalls the soldiers
- separated the men from the women and the women from the children
- before taking them away to torture, rape and kill them. She was
- the last on her line, and amid the screams of her neighbors she
- knelt down to pray, and hid in the bushes. Another witness,
- Andrea Marquez, who lived in a nearby village and fled when the
- army began to surround El Mozote testified that some soldiers
- would throw small childrenin the air and catch them on the ends
- of their machetes. She discovered that her own daughter had been
- shot. After eight days the daughter died in Andreas arms. Both
- women are still frightened, despite the peace process, the
- commissions and the study of the remains. They are the only two
- living witnesses of what occurred in El Mozote.
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- Four Argentine and one Spanish archeaologist have been
- excavating the area around El Mozote searching for the remains of
- those massacred by the elite, United States trained, Atlacatl
- battallion. The army alsways denied having committd the massacre
- and accused the FMLN. Members of the elite battallion also
- killed five Jesuit priests in San Salvador in 1989.
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- The report of the Truth Commission, created as part of the
- peace process, will include information on the El Mozote
- massacre. (EFE 11/4)
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- SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO VIOLATE PEACE ACCORDS
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- In a letter to El Salvador's Ministerof the Presidency,
- Oscar Santamaria, the head of the Unite Nations Observer Mission
- in El Salvador, Iqbal Riza, warned that the government would be
- violating the peace accords if it integrates former members of
- the army or other special military units into the new national
- civilian police force which is to be organized in accordance with
- the peace agreements. The letter named 19 candidates for the
- Police Academy who were former members of the army. Riza's
- comments were in response to denunciations made by leaders of the
- FMLN that the government was allowing the Police Academy to train
- potential candidates who did not fill all the qualifications
- agreed to last January during the peace talks. In his letter
- Riza reminded the Salvadoran government that it had agreed to
- turn over to the UN observers a list of the members of the
- dissolved infantry battallions and that to date not such lists
- have been received. He asked for an urgent meeting with
- Santamaria to discuss the problems. (AFP 11/7)
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- DIRTY POLITICS IN ELECTORAL PROCESS
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- The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) accused
- the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in El Salvador of putting
- obstacles in the way of the FMLN becoming a legitimate political
- party. According to Marcos Jimenez, an FMLN commander, said that
- on the last day of the period allowed for the FMLN to register as
- a legal political party, the Tribunal alleged "errors" in two
- words that would result in not allowing the FMLN to register.
- Jimenez said the Tribunal's "dilatory attitude" was in accordance
- with the petition of the [right-wing ruling] Nationalist
- Republican Alliance (ARENA) party to prevent the FMLN's
- registration. (AFP 11/7)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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