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- Subject: NEWS:100+ children's bodies exhumed at El Mozote/edlp
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- El Mozote: More than 100 children's bodies exhumed
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- from El Diario La Prensa 11/18
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- EL SALVADOR: OVER 100 CHILDREN'S BODIES EXHUMED IN EL MOZOTE
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- The legal office of the Archbishop of San Salvador said on
- November 17 that more than 100 children's bodies were exhumed,
- along with five adults, during the first phase of the excavations
- being carried out by local authorities and international
- anthropoligists in El Mozote, El Salvador. El Mozote was the
- site of the massacre of over 1,000 peasants in 1981 by members of
- the elite Atlacatl battallion of the Salvadoran army. "The body
- of the crime is present and the judge has the authority to begin
- to call the members of the Atlacatl battallion who are
- responsible for the massacre to testify about the case," said the
- church source. The legal office promised to offer an official
- diagnosis of the first phase of the investigation within the
- next few weeks.
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- The investigation, which ended on Wednesday, November
- 18, was part of the judicial process against the elite battallion
- which began on October 26, 1990. Judge Frederico Portillo stated
- to AFP that the exhumed skeletons will be carried to the
- Institute of Forensic Medicine in Santa Tecla this week. Luis
- Fondenbrider, an Argeinte anthropoligist who is part of the
- excavation team, said "It is clear that immeasurable violence
- took place in that site." (AFP 11/18)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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