From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: El Salvador Attack
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:29:22 GMT

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ACUR 1                        COUNTRY: EL SALVADOR
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA          CASE   : C 93-1/ES 1
JANUARY 7, 1993


          ARMED MEN IN MILITARY UNIFORMS ATTACKED
           MIRNA PERLA DE ANAYA AND HER CHILDREN

The Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central
America (CODEHUCA), regional organization with Consultive
Status Category II in the United Nations, received
information from the non-governmental Human Rights Commission
of El Salvador (CDHES), about the attack on Mirna Perla de
Anaya (CODEHUCA's vice president and former General
Coordinator) and her children when they were on their way to
Suchitoto, in El Salvador.

MIRNA PERLA DE ANAYA'S TESTIMONY:
     On January 3 of this year, at 7.15 pm, at a place
     called La Pedrera, on the highway from San Salvador to
     Suchitoto, six men dressed in dark clothes, military
     style, with military caps and guns, made me stop. They
     used a red light so I thought it was the police. They
     all had their faces covered and told us to raise our
     hand and get out of the car. They fired some 12 times.

     One bullet entered the car close to the back tire,
     wounding my son Miguel Ernesto (15 years old); I could
     not see his wound until we reached the hospital in
     Suchitoto where they treated him. Luckily he does not
     have any muscle or organ damage, but they had to suture
     him as the splinter entered, left and re-entered his
     right side. It really gave us a fright.

     CODEHUCA expresses its profound concern as there are
many members of the security forces who have not yet been
purged, according to the Peace Accords, and there continue to
occur numerous attacks against the lives of the civil
population. In our opinion this is the result of government
delays in purifying the Armed Forces, allowing the same
Forces to continue acting with impunity.

     According to information received from residents of the
repopulations (areas where ex-guerillas and internally
displaced persons are living) these kinds of attacks occur
frequently. For instance, one of the residents of "Ciudadela
Guillermo Ungo" suffered an attack at the end of December,
1992, by persons who apparently were members of the Anti-Drug
Unit. The description of the assailants in this case resemble
the description of the armed men who attacked the car of
Mirna Perla de Anaya.



     We request the solidarity network and the international
community:
     to demand from the Salvadoran government to investigate
thoroughly the attack on Mrs. Perla de Anaya, to find those
responsible for the attack. At the same time that they take
measures to protect the residents of the Ciudadela Guillermo Ungo
and respect the human rights of all Salvadorans;
     to demand that President Cristiani comply with the Peace
Accords, especially the purification of the Armed Forces,
responsible for most human rights violations and crimes against
humanity during the period from 1980-1991.

     The government of Cristiani is in clear violation of the
Accords, having hardly begun to fire or replace the 110 Army
official, including General Ponce and Colonel Zepeda (Minister and
Vice-Minister of Defence), as demanded by the Ad Hoc Commission,
under the auspices of the United Nations. This process of
purification was to have been completed by December 31, 1992.

Please send your messages to:

Lic. Alfredo Cristiani
President of the Republic of
El Salvador
Casa Presidencial
San Salvador, El Salvador
Tel.: 503 / 711555
Fax : 503 / 810018

ONUSAL, Hotel San Salvador,
Edif. VIP, 89,
av. norte y 11 calle Poniente
Colonia Escal"n, Apdo. # 2257
San Salvador, El Salvador
Tel.: 243044 ext. 236
Fax : 503 / 793381
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