El Salvador's decade of terror : human rights since the assassination of Archbishop Romero / Americas Watch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1991.Description: xx, 207 pages : map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
LOC classification:
  • JC599 .E473 1991
  • JC599
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Contents:
List of acronyms -- Chapter 1: Brief history -- Chapter 2: The assault on civil society -- Chapter 3: Combat-related abuses by government forces -- Chapter 4: Abuses by the guerrillas -- Chapter 5: The administration of Justice -- Chapter 6: Impunity -- Chapter 7: Refugees and the displaced -- Chapter 8: The role of the United States -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Human rights and democracy -- Appendix A: U.S. aid to El Salvador, 1980-1992 -- Appendix B: Partial chronology of human rights events in El Salvador, 1979-1991 -- Appendix C: Human rights and humanitarian organizations.
Subject: This [book] shows that despite U.S. efforts ostensibly to promote human rights in El Salvador, conditions there remain deplorable. It also demonstrates that while the Bush administration continues the Reagan administration's policy of backing El Salvador's brutal military, the cold war rationale for supporting the Salvadoran government and armed forces is as weak now as at the dawn of U.S. military involvement. Documenting a wide range of violations by all sides in the conflict, Americas watch challenges the current administration's view that the human rights situation in El Salvador has steadily improved, and calls for a thorough reevaluation of the role of the United States in El Salvador.
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction JC599.S2E42 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 31923000803334

El Salvador: Vital statistics -- List of acronyms -- Chapter 1: Brief history -- Chapter 2: The assault on civil society -- Chapter 3: Combat-related abuses by government forces -- Chapter 4: Abuses by the guerrillas -- Chapter 5: The administration of Justice -- Chapter 6: Impunity -- Chapter 7: Refugees and the displaced -- Chapter 8: The role of the United States -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Human rights and democracy -- Appendix A: U.S. aid to El Salvador, 1980-1992 -- Appendix B: Partial chronology of human rights events in El Salvador, 1979-1991 -- Appendix C: Human rights and humanitarian organizations.

This [book] shows that despite U.S. efforts ostensibly to promote human rights in El Salvador, conditions there remain deplorable. It also demonstrates that while the Bush administration continues the Reagan administration's policy of backing El Salvador's brutal military, the cold war rationale for supporting the Salvadoran government and armed forces is as weak now as at the dawn of U.S. military involvement. Documenting a wide range of violations by all sides in the conflict, Americas watch challenges the current administration's view that the human rights situation in El Salvador has steadily improved, and calls for a thorough reevaluation of the role of the United States in El Salvador.

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