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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 15 Aug 92 09:19 PDT
Subject: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLE
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700369:000:2651
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 15 09:19:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLE

/* Written 12:10 am  Aug 15, 1992 by newsdesk in
cdp:ips.englibrary */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all
rights reserved.  Permission to re- print within 7 days of
original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLED FOR IN JESUIT
KILLINGS

san salvador, aug 12 (ips) -- a top jesuit official has called for
the release of two soldiers condemned for the 1989 murder of six
jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, saying the
true intellectual authors of the crime remain free.

''we do not want to be accomplices to an injustice that lays all
the blame on just two of the accused,'' the central american
director of the jesuit order, jose maria tojeira, said on
wednesday, while asking for amnesty for the two officers.

the killings occurred on the grounds of the ''jose simeon canas''
central american university on nov. 15, 1989 in the midst of a
massive anti-government offensive launched by the farabundo marti
liberation front (fmln).

the convicted officers are colonel guillermo banavides, former
director of el salvador's military academy, and lieutenant yussy
rene mendoza, accused of burning documents relating to the
military's participation in the assassinations.

both were sentenced to 30 years in prison, following an october
1991 trial, in which six other soldiers were acquitted.

in his statement, tojeira said a thorough and honest investigation
was needed to discover and punish the authors of the crime.

according to peace accords signed between the government and fmln
in january, the jesuit killings, along with other notorious human
rights violations, will be investigated by a ''commission of
truth.''

the commission is made up of former colombian president belisario
betancur, former venezualan foreign minister reinaldo figueredo
and u.s. judge thomas buergenthal.

the commission will spend six months investigating human rights
abuses perpetrated in the course of the country's 12 year civil
war.

in addition, since may, another ad hoc commission made up of three
salvadorans, has been investigating the conduct of some 2,188
military officials as part of the plan to ''clean up'' the armed
forces.

tojeira considers both commissions important, but complained that
they have not been given enough time or support to truly
investigate the role of the military in human rights violations.

''they have done a good job, but they still need more time to
investigate, as the military is implicated in so many cases,'' the
priest said. (end/ips/trd/so/bf-sfi/eli/kb/92)
----
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:39 PDT
Subject: Death penalty in Guatemala
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700393:000:2417
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 19 16:39:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Death penalty in Guatemala

/* Written  4:04 pm  Aug 19, 1992 by codehuca in cdp:reg.guatemala */

URGENT COMMUNIQUE  NO. 6  COUNTRY: GUATEMALA

The Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America
(CODEHUCA), received urgent information from the Guatemalan Human
Rights Commission (CDHG) on the death penalty against NICOLAS
GUTIERREZ CRUZ, corporal in the Guatemalan army, who was accused of
participating in the killing of 4 persons in January 1992.
FACTS:
NICOLAS GUTIERREZ CRUZ and the soldier ELISEO SUCHITE (on the run)
were accused of having killed, on the 16th of January this year,
the following campesinos: JUAN XAN JULAJ (47 years old); FRANCISCO
JAZ LOPEZ (28); JUAN CALEL GRAVE (25) and MARVIN XAN ZANTIZO (11),
in PERONIA, Guatemala City.
NICOLAS GUTIERREZ CRUZ, had to be executed yesterday the 18th of
August, because the appeal for cassation put in for the accused was
not approved in his favour. However, the execution did not take
place on this day as his defending counsel presented a new appeal.
The execution is suspended until the competent court will make a
pronouncement.
It is important to mention that the death penalty spoken out
against the corporal, of indigenous background, forms a contrast
with the pardon given to 6 military men of higher rank who were
involved in the assessination of 11 persons in August 1991. As
stated by an official of the Guatemalan Auditor!a de Guerra (a
military court), they were pardoned this month because of a lack of
proof.
On this matter we consider that the application of the death
penalty against NICOLAS GUTIERREZ is concealing those intelectually
responsible for the crime, that are the officials who gave the
order for the massacre and who were not even investigated.
For this reason, we address our Solidarity Network and ask you to
react urgently to avoid the application of the capital punishment
against GUTIERREZ CRUZ and that it will be commuted to the maximum
prison sentence.
Please send your messages to:
President of the Supreme Court          President of the    
of Justice                              Constitutional Court
Lic. Juan Jos Rodil Peralta            Lic. Jorge Mario Garc!a
Centro C!vico, 21 calle y 7a            11 Ave. entre 9a y 10
Av, Zona 1, Guatemala, Guatemala        Calles. Guatemala.
Fax: (5022) 512686                      Guatemala.
          

Xref: sparky soc.rights.human:3146 soc.culture.iranian:7409
From: towfiq@Microdyne.COM (Mark Towfiq)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Editorial in N.Y. Times (8/18/92)
Date: 23 Aug 92 06:03:50 GMT
	<oou.djvls@lab.ntt.jp>
	<TOWFIQ.92Aug21151012@nighthawk.clearpoint.com>
	<o9r.dpi1j@lab.ntt.jp>
Organization: Clearpoint Research Corporation

>>>>> On 22 Aug 92 07:36:57 GMT, farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP
>>>>> (Farzin Mokhtarian) said:

fm> You said that you don't even know what the source of the NY Times
fm> is!  So you don't know how reliable that source is.  So how can
fm> you jump to all these conclusions?!

  I said that I don't know what the New York Times source is, that's
right.  But the New York Times is not my only source.  My own sources
include the family of Dr.  Samandari -- I am friends with his niece
and nephew, particularly, and they were extremely saddened by the loss
of their uncle, whom they had not seen in 13 years.

  Furthermore, I regard the information conveyed by the institutions
of the Baha'i Faith to be impeccable.  I also read about the execution
in the Iran Times, and the general acceptance by non-Baha'i Iranians
of this fact, often at risk to their own families and possessions, is
quite telling.  Finally, the ominous silence of the Islamic Republic
government speaks volumes in itself.
--
Mark Towfiq, towfiq@Microdyne.COM			      H:+1 617 488 2818

O SON OF BEING!  Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the
gold, and with gold We test Our servants.
		-- Baha'u'llah, Arabic Hidden Words, #55
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:24 PDT
Subject: El Salvador Truth Commission
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700384:000:1541
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 18 14:24:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: El Salvador Truth Commission

/* Written 10:21 pm  Aug 16, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */

 14. El Salvador Truth Commission Investigates Human Rights
Abuses
The Truth Commission, created as part of the peace accords to
investigate human rights abuses which took place during the war
in El Salvador, has begun taking testimony.  The three-person
commission is made up of former Colombian president Belisario
Betancur, former Venezuelan foreign minister Reinaldo Figueredo
and the former president of the Interamerican Court for Human
Rights, Thomas Buergenthal. It has six months in which to
complete its work.

In its investigations the commission is likely to meet strong
resistance from the state and the armed forces.  Codehuca
(Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America) is
concerned that there will be a cover-up, which could only be done
by the state, since "they control all the possible evidence
concerning the crimes and human rights violations."  The role of
the United States government is also vital.  According to James
McGovern, an adviser to U.S. congressperson Joe Moakley, "there
are only two sources of information concerning what happened
during the war. One is the El Salvador Armed Forces and the other
is the United States."

An Ad Hoc Commission has also been formed to investigate the
personal responsibility of members of the High Command of the
Salvadoran armed forces for acts committed during the war. [ED-LP
from Notimex 8/11/92]


Xref: sparky soc.rights.human:3142 soc.culture.iranian:7401
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:03 PDT
Subject: Laos: Appeal for Help
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700387:000:2057
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 18 17:03:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Laos: Appeal for Help

/* Written  5:02 pm  Aug 18, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:hr.news */
Organization of Laotian Students Fighting for Independence
and Democracy

APPEAL

We, Laotian students studying in Eastern Europe, appeal to everyone,
all organizations of communities all over the world for interest
in our affairs, for support of our fight with the Communist regime 
in Laos for human rights. Our country has been occupied by Communist
aggressors from Vietnam since 1975. Human rights and the principals
of democracy have been broken in that time.

We ask everyone of good will, every organization and every community
of the world to send appeals to the Laotian government to request the
immediate release of the following political prisoners:

1. Nang King Khamsensouk - a professor at the Academy of Pedagogy
in Vientiane, Dongdok. She was arrested on November 1991 with a
group of 75 students.

2. Ounmano Khamsensouk who was arrested on October 1991.

3. 25 students who were arrested in Borykhamsay province.

4. 10 students who were arrested in Thakeg in Khammouane province.

5. 15 students who were arrested in Savannakhet province.

6. 102 students who were arrested in Pakse province.

7. Khamphui Latsami, the former Vice-Minister of the State Committee
of Planning in Laos, Khamfang, the former chief of the Department
of Ministry of Justice, and 59 people who were also arrested on 
October 8, 1990.

All of these persons were actively engaged in political work. After
arrest they were transported to "re-eeducation camps" in Phadeng in
Houaphane province.

We appeal once more for the support for our aims for the release of
political prisoners by sending appeals with signatures to:

Kaysone Phomvihane
President of the Laotian Democratic People's Republic
Vientiane, Laos

Khamtay Siphandone
Prime Minister
Laotian Democratic People's Republic
Vientiane, Laos

[We rely on your support for our aims for freedom and independence
for our country, and also democracy for our tired nation.]
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:59 PDT
Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners(2)
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700364:000:2491
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 14 10:59:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners(2)

/* Written  5:13 pm  Aug 12, 1992 by caribdoc in cdp:reg.puertorico */
From: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz <caribdoc>

                          PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT

[Excerpt]

Isolation from family and the pliitcal community of support has been
a prime weapon used against these men and women. In spite of explicit 
federal regulations mandating that prisoners be placed in prisons as close
to their homes as possible, the U.S places the Puerto Rican political 
prisoners in prisons as far away from their homes as possible.

For years the United States has basically banished indepedence activists,
taking those convicted of pro-independence activity from their country and
forcing service of prison sentences inside the U.S., as it did with Don
Pedro Albizu Campos and other Nationalist Party leaders, as it continued to
do with Pablo Marcano Garcia and Nydia Cuevas, and with Angel Rodriguez 
Cristobal and his fellow Vieques protestors. The most recent example is the
August 30, 1985 arrest in Puerto Rico of eleven activists, who were 
transported out of their country by the U.S. military before they could go
forward on a hearing for bond scheduled to be heard in their own country,
and who were then held in U.S. prisons, some for as long as three years,
before beind admited to bail.

Prison officials also make assignments to prison to intentionally distance
the prisoner under sentence from their families in the U.S. Adolfo Matos,
whose family lives in New York, is in a prison thousands of miles away in
southern California, although there is prison only a few hours drive from
New York, where several of his comrades are imprisoned.

As a result, Adolfo sees his wife and teenage daughters infrequently. One
of his daughters recently made the expensive trip to see her father after
not seeing him for three years. Elizam Escobar, whose son lives in New
York, has repeatedly requested placement in a prison near New York. 

Although hundreds of other prisoners have been assigned to prisons near
New York, authorities tell Elizam they cannot accommodate his wishes because
of "overcrowding". His son was five years old when his father was taken into
custody and in the past eleven years has seen his father on an average of 
less than once a year.

[Sussler, Jan.Condiciones de Encarcelamiento/Conditions of Incarceration,
Ofensiva '92, Rio Piedras:Puerto Rico, p.22-23.]



    [D.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 22 Aug 92 13:15 PDT
Subject: EMERGENCY ACTION - YUGOSLAVIA
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700406:000:2304
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 22 13:15:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: EMERGENCY ACTION - YUGOSLAVIA

/* Written 10:51 pm  Aug 21, 1992 by aiusala in cdp:ai.general */
EMERGENCY ACTION - YUGOSLAVIA                 AUGUST 7, 1992

TO:  AI Activists
FR:  Jack Rendler, National Campaign Director
RE:  Yugoslavia

As you are undoubtedly aware, evidence is mounting of massive
human rights violations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Please review the
Amnesty findings and position, outlined in the brief statements
attached.

Then please send at least one letter, telegram, or fax to each of
the addresses listed below.

In your message, please make the following points:

* Amnesty International has evidence of deliberate killings of
noncombatants in Bosnia-Herzegovina, of torture, and of
massacres.

* Refugees have been forcibly expelled.

* Amnesty has reason to believe that thousands of prisoners are
held in detention centers controlled by Serbs and also by Bosnian
Croatian forces; there is concern that many of these detainees
have been subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

* Amnesty recognizes that abuses and excesses have been committed
by all sides involved in the conflict, and is calling on all
parties to protect noncombatants.

* Call for an immediate end to killings of noncombatants, to
torture, and ill-treatment.

* Call for the release of all civilians held because of their
ethnic origin.

* Call on the government to prevent the forcible relocation of
individuals solely because of their ethnic origin.

* Urge that the International Committee of the Red Cross be
allowed immediate access to places of detention in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Please forward any replies you receive to the Campaign Office.

Please send appeals to:

Milan Panic
Predsednik Seveznog Izvranog Veca
Bulevar Lenjina
11070 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Telegrams: Predsednik SIV, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
FAXES:  011 38 11 636 775 and 011 38 11 195 244
Salutation: Dear Prime Minister

Dobrica Cosic
Predsednik SRJ
Bulevar Lenjina 2
11070 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Telegrams: Predsednik SRJ, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
FAXES:  011 38 11 636 775
Salutation: Dear President

Please send copies of your letters to:

Ambassador Dzevad Mujezinovic
Embassy of Yugoslavia
2410 California St. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: (202) 462-6566  FAX: (202) 797-9633

Xref: sparky soc.rights.human:3048 soc.culture.asian.american:7940 soc.culture.filipino:2911 misc.education:3108
From: david@xlnt.com (David Johnson)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.filipino,misc.education
Subject: Re: Discrimination against Filipino teachers in Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:34:38 GMT
Followup-To: soc.rights.human
Organization: XLNT Designs, Inc (XDI)

In article <1992Aug11.233841.13711@sco.com>, garyh@sco.COM (< Gary H >) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Aug11.034311.14128@samba.oit.unc.edu> Nigel.Allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Nigel Allen) writes:
|> ! ...
|> !compensatory time than local teachers.  The islands also require 
|> !Filipino female applicants to test negative for pregnancy in 
|> !pre-employment medical tests. 
|> 
|> Hmmm.  I remember DWIGHT mentioning that this can only happen in a barbaric
|> chinese society.

I do not know about the Northern Marianas but Guam (southern Mariana island
but a US possession instead of a commonwealth) has a large Filipino
population and is very influential there.  I what Nigel says is true it is
my guess the N Marianas are afraid of the Filipinos dominating things like
they have in Guam.

I have been to Guam and I have not observed any Chinese cultural attitudes
in Filipinos in case 
Mr. Joe is going to accuse the Filipinos of being somewhat Chinese-cu.
There are some Chinese in the Phillipines but the dominant outside influences
on the culture of the PI are Spanish culture and Catholicism.


-- 
David Johnson
XLNT Designs, Inc. (XDI)
david@xlnt.com
From: pnmideast@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:31 PDT
Subject: Croatian War Relief Needs
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700388:000:1840
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!pnmideast    Aug 18 23:31:00 1992


From: <pnmideast>
Subject: Croatian War Relief Needs

/* Written  6:40 pm  Aug 18, 1992 by gn:jsax in cdp:yugo.antiwar */
/* ---------- "Croatian War Relief Needs" ---------- */
Cc: igc!pnmideast
Subject: Croatian War Relief Needs

TWO CONCRETE APPEALS FOR UNUSUAL 
HUMANITARIAN HELP FOR BOSNA AND CROATIA


I. FOOD FOR CHILDREN IN SARAJEVO

We told with the physician from Sarajevo, who works in UNICEF and was 
one day in Zagreb. He said that the important help for Bosna in this 
moment can be some more quality foods, specially for children. People 
usually eat only bred, pastry, potato etc. They need foods like:

	% powdered milk
	% powdered eggs
	% multivitamin pills

You can to send this in Zagreb, on address of CENTER FOR PEACE, 
NONVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, with designation "For children in 
Bosnia". Also, if you are coming to Zagreb, you can bring something like a 
box of multivitamin pills.  With UNICEF and UNHCR offices in Zagreb and 
planes for Sarajevo every day, it is no problem to send these packages to 
Bosnia. This kind of moral support for people in Sarajevo, in the form of 
gifts from ordinary people from abroad and especially from Croatia, will 
be much appreciated. 

II. WINDOW-PANES FOR OSIJEK

Croatian town Osijek, with more then 100.000 inhabitants, was on the 
front-lines for nine mouths. It was continuously shelled with mortars, 
cannons and rockets. Many houses are damaged. They are often usable, but 
the big problem in next few months are the broken windows. Most of the 
windows are covered only with transparent plastic, which will not keep 
out the cold during the autumn and winter months.  About 210.000 m2 of 
window-pane are needed.

We appeal to you to collect this sort of help for Osijek. Contact us at the 
CENTER FOR PEACE, NONVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS in Zagreb for 
details.




Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: executions in Haiti[D
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:03:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700400:000:2188
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 21 12:03:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: executions in Haiti[D

/* Written  8:08 am  Aug 21, 1992 by lchr in cdp:reg.carib */

                                        August 21, 1992

VIA TELECOPY
                                   
Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye
UN Special Rapporteur
Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Centre for Human Rights
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

Re: Executions in Haiti

Dear Mr. Ndiaye:

     On Monday, August 17, three young men were putting
up posters with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
picture on a major road in Port-au-Prince.  Suddenly, men
in military uniform and in civilian clothes arrived in
two pick-up trucks and arrested and beat the men. 
Witnesses living in the neighborhood said they also heard
gunshots and screams.  The next day, blood-stains were
visible at the scene.  Also on August 18, a delegation
led by OAS Secretary-General Baena Soares, which included
a senior representative from the U.N. Secretary-General's
office, arrived in Haiti.  

     On Tuesday, August 18, the young mens' families
recovered their bodies from the hospital morgue.  The
names of those apparantly extrajudicially executed by the
Haitian armed forces are:

          Matin Rmilien, 31 years-old and a co-founder
          of the recently formed pro-Aristide political
          party "Open the Gate"

          Jacquelin Gabriel, 35 years-old, married with
          one child, a truck-driver

          Ancy Philippe, 34 years-old, father of one
          child and an electrician

     The executions in Haiti simply do not stop.  I urge
you once again to take immediate action.  Perhaps an on-
site visit by the Special Rapporteur would help establish
responsibility for the untold number of executions since
the September coup and to deter further executions.

                              Sincerely,



                              William G. O'Neill

cc:  Mr. Francesc Vendrell, United Nations
     Ms. Donna Hrinak, State Department
     Mr. Marco Tulio Bruni-Celli, U.N. Human Rights     
      Centre
     Gen. Raoul Cdras
     Mr. Marc Bazin
     Mr. Moyse Snatus
From: garyh@sco.COM (< Gary H >)
Subject: Re: Discrimination against Filipino teachers in Northern Mariana Islands
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 23:38:41 GMT


In article <1992Aug11.034311.14128@samba.oit.unc.edu> Nigel.Allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Nigel Allen) writes:
! ...
!compensatory time than local teachers.  The islands also require 
!Filipino female applicants to test negative for pregnancy in 
!pre-employment medical tests. 

Hmmm.  I remember DWIGHT mentioning that this can only happen in a barbaric
chinese society.
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