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![El Salvador in Focus](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/28/1989Call Number: LA 119AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
More allegations arise implicating the El Salvador military and their direct involvement with the Death Squads torturing, executing, and terrorizing the civilian population. Members of the military and the national police have been repeatedly identified as active in the Death Squads. A deserter from the First Infantry Brigade and former Death Squad member testifies that high ranking military officials and U.S. advisors directly support Death Squad activity. Students at the National University are targeted. Sixteen hundred refugees begin a long march home from Honduras. Refugee and repatriation leaders are captured by the El Salvador military on their way to the border and their whereabouts are unknown. In San Jose, Costa Rica, peace talks between the FMLN and the Christiani government end with no resolution.
![Interview with Paul Fitch](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Paul Finch, a former Co-Administrator from the Lutheran church in El Salvador, talks about his experience during the war in El Salvador in the 1970s. Finch worked for the children who were displaced after the war, organizing activities for children who were in their shelter with his wife. The Church had open doors for whoever needed help, even when the Army of El Salvador began to settle in the church. He mentions how in the beginning of the war, the Guerillas and the Salvadorian Army used different tactics to attack one another, some more drastic than others. Citizens and anyone who were against the Salvadorian government were being tortured to death. He also discusses how he managed to get out of jail before being killed.
![United Freedom Front Communique #9](images/thumbnails//26938.jpg)
Publisher: United Freedom FrontDate: 8/21/1984Volume Number: 21-AugFormat: CommuniqueCollection: El Salvador
Communique from the United Freedom Front claiming responsibility for the bombing of General Electric offices of the aerospace strategic planning and aircraft division in New York. At the time, GE was the fourth largest military contractor to the United States and their products were involved in bombing of civilian populations, human rights violations and mass murders.
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