FMLN organization
also: rebels, the left, insurgents
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UN Commission of Truthorganization · 4El Salvador Civil Warevent · 3Oliver Northperson · 1Manuel Noriegaperson · 1Panamacountry · 1El Salvadorcountry · 1Salvador Samuelperson · 1Óscar Romeroperson · 1U.S. Southern Commandorganization · 1Roberto de Osborneperson · 1Maxwell Thurmanperson · 1Contrasorganization · 1National Republican Allianceorganization · 1Nicaraguacountry · 1
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We're living through that right now. Education minister turned guerrilla or rebel freedom fighter, Salvador Samioa, speaking in 1981, asserted that U.S. charges that the Soviet bloc was directing the rebel movement reveals Washington's deep…
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finally got the warring sides to agree to a ceasefire and a peace agreement. A major offensive launched by the rebels in 1989, in which they brought the war home to wealthy neighborhoods and Americans in the capital, had finally cleared the…
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In February 1990, General Maxwell Thurman, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the El Salvador government was not able to defeat the rebels and that the only way to end the fighting was through negotiations. So, and of…
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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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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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American military advisors trained a militia of some 50 wealthy Salvadorians, ostensibly for them to defend their own homes against rebel attack. But the group was actually linked to that major hitman, and their militias were actually a cov…
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The FMLN said that the initial tabulation showed that many ballot boxes contained more votes than the legal maximum of 400, some two and three times as many. So they were stuffing the ballot boxes. And then the ARENA government party came i…
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And if so, why had they not taken the side of the insurgents or the rebels? And how bad would the human rights abuses have been in the armed forces had Washington never supplied the weapons and training to bring about the destruction, pain …
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de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…