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...NIGHT NEARLY two years ago, three American nuns and a lay worker were making their way toward Zacatecoluca, 45 miles southeast of San Salvador, when five Salvadoran national guardsmen stopped and questioned them. Later, the soldiers claimed the women had tried to avoid a roadblock. No one will ever know the Americans' side of the story: they were raped, murdered and buried...
...took months to bring the guardsmen to trial. And even then, most observers believed the case would eventually be dismissed, chalked up as another stain on the Salvadoran government's already soiled human rights record. But Monday, a judge in Zacatecoluca found that the soldiers had "participated in the crime" of aggravated assault. Unless the guardsmen successfully appeal the decision--an unlikely event--they will go to jail for their crimes...
Campaigning in the provincial town of Zacatecoluca last week, Duarte was doing his best to drum up enthusiasm for the election. Although he may well be the country's best political orator, he was guarded and defensive as he tried to explain why the junta had not brought either peace or prosperity to the country...
Speaking from the tiled band shell of the central park square in Zacatecoluca, Duarte declared, "We are going through the exodus of the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land. It is a long road. Elections are only the first step on the road to democracy." But few of the 2,000 or so faces in the square showed any belief that their future was still in their hands. As the haggard President left, the small village
Anywhere else the court appearance might have been a routine event, but in El Salvador it was momentous. As heavily armed members of the Salvadoran national guard stood by, six of their former colleagues appeared last week before a judge in the town of Zacatecoluca. The judge's task: to decide whether the six should stand trial for the brutal murders 14 months ago of three American nuns, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel, and a U.S. religious lay worker, Jean Donovan. At week's end, the judge ruled that five of the men should be charged...
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