UN Commission of Truth organization
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“but on premeditated and torturous inspiration decisions to kill. The commission called for the dismissal of more than 40 high-ranking military personnel, including Defense Minister General Rene Emilio Ponce, a longtime favorite of the U.S. …”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 36:53
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communism, which had been used as one of the rationales in El Salvador, Congress was balking more and more also at maintaining the level of military aid necessary to keep the rebels at bay. And then the year before, you'd had the mass murde…
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to, quote, investigate the worst acts of violence since 1980, unquote. In March of 93, the commission presented its report. Among its findings and conclusions are as follows. The military forces supported by the government and the civilian …
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but on premeditated and torturous inspiration decisions to kill. The commission called for the dismissal of more than 40 high-ranking military personnel, including Defense Minister General Rene Emilio Ponce, a longtime favorite of the U.S. …
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and stipulated that none should ever be allowed to return to military or security duty and should be banned from any office for 10 years. Dismissal and a 10-year ban was also specified for government officials and bureaucrats who had abused…
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It was, let's see, the Salvadorian National Assembly quickly pushed through an amnesty law barring prosecutions for any of the crimes committed. Several leaders of the left were singled out for the assassinations of 11 mayors during the war…
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The special investigation of death squads was called for. These squads, said the report, often operated by the military and supported by powerful businessmen, landowners, and leading politicians. The peace accords did not put an end to this…
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the Archbishop we talked about yesterday, Archbishop Romero. Other sins laid out at the doorstep of the government were rapes, killings of three American nuns, and a female religious worker in 1980, the murder of two American labor advisors…
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did not focus on any American role in the abuses or cover-up. Of course not. Quote, the role of the U.S. in El Salvador is a role more effectively studied by the U.S. Congress, unquote. No, it's not. One of the commission members was a guy …
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That's what that guy said. The Thomas Bergenthau, who's an American jurist, said that the commission didn't take any look at the American role, that the Americans should take a look at their own role. How convenient. The commission did chas…
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They failed to rein in the Salvadorian exiles in Miami who, quote, helped administer death squad activities between 1980 and 1983 with apparently little attention from the U.S. government. I'd add with a lot of attention to do that with the…
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Members of Congress, outraged by the findings of the commission, called for the declassification of State Department, Defense Department, and CIA files on El Salvador to help determine whether the Reagan and Bush administration had conceale…