Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: El Salvador (Amnesty International)

On 26 April 1999, Miguel Montenegro, the President of the
Comision de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador, CDHES (Commission
on Human Rights of El Salvador), was kidnapped by several heavily
armed men from his van in the capital, San Salvador.  Amnesty
International is gravely concerned for the safety of Miguel
Montenegro and his family.
The men, who were travelling in two vehicles with darkened
windows,drove Miguel Montenegro around for about two hours and
finally dropped him in the east side of San Salvador at 10.00 pm.
They insulted him and threatened him with death.  The men warned
him not to report the kidnapping, saying that they knew where he
worked and lived and would take retaliatory measures against him
and his family if he talked. They also claimed to have contacts
within the police force.
In the last few months other similar attacks have taken place in
El Salvador. In March, the President of the Centro para la
Defensa del Consumidor (Centre for the Defence of the Consumer),
a group working on behalf of the poor, was kidnapped in similar
circumstances and detained for about 19 hours. In addition,the
Department of Human Rights of the Lutheran Church and a number
of other organizations have recently suffered break-ins.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION The CDHES, founded in 1978 with the
support of Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated in 1980), has
been a target of attacks since its inception. Several of its
members have been killed or "disappeared" as a result of their
work.  Other NGOs working on behalf of victims of human rights
violations, and for the promotion and defence of human rights,
have also been repeatedly targetted over the years.
Death squads and paramilitary groups were responsible for the
systematic secret murder, torture and "disappearance" of
suspected government opponents during the 1980s and early 1990s,
but benefitted from total impunity. After the 1992 Peace Accords,
which ended 12 years of armed conflict between the government and
the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional, FMLN, a
non-governmental opposition entity,the hope was that they would
be held accountable and cease to exist. In 1993, a resurgence of
violence led to the creation of the Grupo Conjunto para la
Investigacion de Grupos Armados Ilegales con Motivacion Politica
en El Salvador (Joint Group to investigate politically motivated
illegal armed groups). The Joint Group concluded that organized
groups carrying out political violence continued to operate,
although their relation to state structures was less evident than
in the past; it made several recommendations to investigate and
adopt preventive measures, which have not been implemented.  The
CDHES has denounced the existence of "extermination groups or
death squads" and calling for the implementation of the
recommendations of the Joint Group.


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traduzione in un NG italiano, vorresti gentilmente dirci cosa c'entra
con it.eventi.guerrakosovo?
Grazie
-Stefano

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