>From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 5 Dec 89 15:17:24 GMT

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		      EL SALVADOR ALERT URGENT!
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SENATE AND HOUSE BILLS TO CUT ALL AID TO SALVADOREAN GOVERNMENT

THE BILLS, BOTH LISTED AS BILL #3733, NEED MORE SPONSORS [...]
Background information:

The Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) organized to
create a better future for the severely impoverished and brutally
repressed working class people of El Salvador.  One out of every 75
Salvadoreans has been murdered by the death squads and the army.

During FMLN/Cristiani government negotiations to effect a cease fire
and to begin to resolve differences, eight top labor leaders were
murdered in their offices, and a prominent teacher and human rights
worker was tortured and murdered, setting off the current FMLN
initiative. [[Note: labor leaders themselves, not just FMNL, blamed
gov't for these murders --HB]]

The Salvadorean Air Force has bombed and strafed poor neighborhoods
where FMLN fighters were stationed, destroying 30,000 homes, and
killing l,500 Salvadorans.  There are 2,900 civilians injured and
70,000 homeless.  These bombs were dropped from U.S. airplanes and
paid for by U.S. money.

The armed forces have not bombed the wealthy neighborhoods occupied by
the FMLN.  The FMLN has called on all people to evacuate hotels and
the wealthier areas where they began intensive actions.
	
The U.S. government has spent more than $3.6 billion over nine years
of civil war to keep in power a 14-family oligarchy that owns most of
the land and businesses in the country. [...]

The Salvadoran government has been singled out by the United
Nations as one of the worst violators of human rights in the world.
Without any outside antagonism, the Salvadorean military bombed the
U.N. staff offices in El Salvador last week, forcing the evacuation of
U.N. international personnel.  It is not known whether they will
return.[..]

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			       DETAILS:

House and Senate bills #3733 call for an end of all aid to the 
Salvadoran government until:

1.  Arrest and prosecution of those reponsible for murder of Jesuits

2.  All connected with death squad activities are removed from 
public office and responsiblities

3.  Establish Judiciary free from political pressures

4.  Every measure taken to avoid civilian casualties, avoid aerial 
assaults on residential areas, allowing non-combatants to evacuate 
conflict zones

5.  Allow neutral, humanitarian organizations to evacuate dead and 
wounded, and to provide emergency reliet

6.  Abide by Geneva Convention in regards to combataSnts 

7.  Seek at hightest level to establish cease-fire

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