Word: anaya
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Already there is fear that the death squads may increase their activity to stall any moves against D'Aubuisson. No one doubts the squads still roam the countryside and prowl city streets. In late October, Herbert Anaya, president of the nongovernmental Commission for Human Rights, was gunned down in San Salvador. His death led to cancellation of cease-fire talks between the government and the guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N...
...thing, Duarte needed a counterbalance to the Anaya murder, which has badly damaged his reputation for curbing the senseless violence. Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear...
...many leftists are no more willing to forgive the 40,000 slayings attributed to the death squads than members of the military are able to forget their eight-year war against the guerrillas. One more political murder rocked El Salvador last week. Herbert Anaya Sanabria, 33, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission, was about to drive two of his children to school last week when two men approached him. Armed with revolvers, they shot him dead, then fled in a pickup truck. President Jose Napoleon Duarte suggested that leftists may have fired the shots to sabotage peace talks...
...commission spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Anaya's sympathizers also planned a series of protest rallies, including one outside the U.S. Embassy with Anaya's coffin, before his funeral Thursday...
President Jose Napoleon Duarte's U.S.-supported Christian Democratic government, which has voiced its commitment to pursuing peace talks with the rebels and eliminating human rights abuses, said it would investigate Anaya's death and bring those responsible to justice...