Word: tutela
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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Duarte's task is complicated by the fact that so much is unknown or unprovable about the squads. Even the death toll is a matter of debate. Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the archdiocese of San Salvador, claims that during the last six months of 1983, 2,615 civilians were killed "by the army, security forces, and paramilitary squads allied with them," up from 2,527 during the first half of 1983. This year, the organization contends, the tide is still rising: 241 dead in January, 269 in February, 407 in March. Though State Department officials...
...full accounting of death squad activity is impossible, but patterns can be discerned. While President Reagan has suggested that the left is sponsoring squads to smear the right, both the U.S. embassy and Tutela Legal put civilian deaths attributable to the guerrillas at a fraction of those assigned to right-wing packs. Nonetheless, the rebels frequently execute alleged army collaborators, including villagers who gave either information or food to passing patrols. A hit team from a major guerrilla group, the Popular Liberation Front (FPL), killed U.S. Navy Lieut. Albert Schaufelberger last May, while a splinter faction called the Revolutionary Workers...
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