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<text id=92TT2486>
<title>
Nov. 02, 1992: The Truth Unearthed
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Nov. 02, 1992 Bill Clinton's Long March
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 16
WORLD
The Truth Unearthed
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<p>Investigators find evidence of El Salvador's worst civil-war
massacre
</p>
<p> Government officials and their U.S. patrons repeatedly denied
it. But when a team of forensic anthropologists excavated
nearly 60 of several hundred battered skeletons from around a
demolished church in what was once an F.M.L.N. guerrilla
stronghold, they found convincing evidence of what some
journalists and human-rights activists have said for years: as
many as 800 civilians, most of them women and children, were
mutilated, burned and murdered in and around the remote
northeastern town of El Mozote in 1981, by soldiers from the
Salvadoran army's U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion.
</p>
<p> The victims' relatives want those responsible tried for
murder, even though a new amnesty law prevents any of the
perpetrators from having to serve time for political crimes.
They would also welcome the final dissolution of the notorious
battalion, as was stipulated under the current peace plan signed
by both the government and the rebels last January. But the San
Salvador government has indefinitely suspended the battalion's
disbanding, claiming the F.M.L.N. has yet to demobilize its
troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that
despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will
not meet the Oct. 31 disarmament deadline because judicial and
electoral reforms are lagging, and rebel leaders are still
targets of violence. To break the deadlock, the U.N. proposed
a six-week extension for compliance.
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</body></article>
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