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SOMETIMES I THINK I'm crazy when I hear the Fl Salvadorean and U.S. governments deny killings by the National Guard." Anne Nelson, a writer for The Nation says, "They say the violence didn't happen, and I say it did. I have to refer constantly to my memories of last October--peasants' bodies in fields, militarymen shooting unarmed peasants and placing guns in their hands--or else I too could be convinced...
...Salvadorean government flatly dismisses the charges. So does the U.S. State Department and Embassy in El Salvador. "Maybe it happened," Donald Mathis of the State Department's Central America bureau says, "but I'm skeptical. I suspect the report is a fabrication of the left." He added that one couldn't trust "ignorant peasants" and that the witnesses were related to guerrillas...
Mathis also quoted the El Salvadorean government's assertions that no cave existed named "La Pintada," nor could any cave in El Salvador hold 1500 persons. If they had read the report's updates more carefully, they would have learned that many of the victims were gunned down before they were able to seek temporary refuge in a series of caves named "La Sentada...
There is also some discrepancy between Mathis's and Dion's accounts of the U.S. role in the El Salvadorean government's "investigation." Dion said the U.S. was involved. Mathis stated it wasn't, for "the U.S. government can't do an investigation unless the El Salvadoreans ask us to. We just can't do in El Salvador what we want...
Withdrawal of Advisers in El Salvador There isn't any particular timetable. There is a need to do a job, and that's a job which the EI Salvadorean government wants, and that's what they're down there doing. I don't really know how long it will take...