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WHO WE ARE-As American protesters in Murrieta, Calif., repulsed three busloads of immigrant mothers and children being considered for placement in the U.S., a journalist recalled the grisly Washington-funded civil war in El Salvador that killed more than 75,000 people as a cause of the refugees’ displacement.
“Walking through the arrival area of the airport,” Susanne Ramirez de Arellano writes of her arrival in El Salvador 26 years ago, “the first thing I saw were posters everywhere of children in crutches, children that had lost limbs to landmines supplied by the United States to the Salvadoran government. Welcome to El Salvador. I was a naive young journalist stepping into hell.”
The reporter attended an exhumation of corpses with a small group of international journalists.
“A representative from the Salvadoran human rights group Tutela Legal, founded by the Archdiocese of El Salvador, had arrived at my apartment at 8 a.m. and knocked loudly on the door,” de Arellano continues. “Bleary-eyed and hung over after a night of dominos, tequila and various chemicals, I opened it and stood there as she told me that all the foreign press was invited to an exhumation. Most of the foreign media had been at my house all night—we were not many—and we were really in no condition to witness anything.
“We piled into taxis and began the long journey to the town, which was on the outskirts of the capital. The story was this—10 people had been executed in an attack. The FMLN claimed that the military had done it‚ that they had rounded them all up, tied them together, and opened fire and lobbed hand grenades at them— until they all died. The military claimed that the rebels had done it—in much the same way. The dead had been interred for more than one week. Tutela Legal had secured permission to exhume the bodies to try and ascertain what had really happened.”
The group of reporters witnessed a drunken local duo attempt to pry the corpses from the ground. “Forensic experts” then butchered the bodies to try to determine the causes of death. One veteran journalist vomited as the process went on in the hot sun for hours.
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