Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun

[Judi Lynn]

Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun
By Edgardo Ayala

SAN SALVADOR, Jun 20 2013 (IPS) - The Salvadoran army kept a detailed list of names and photographs of leftists detained or sought during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. The report is the first official military document proving the armed forces’ direct involvement in forced disappearances and other abuses.

Activists told IPS that, besides serving as evidence of human rights crimes, the document confirms the links between the army and the death squads, since a number of the detainees on the list were later forcibly disappeared by the far-right paramilitaries.

The title on the cover of the list of 1,975 people described as “terrorist criminals” is “Yellow Book”. It was apparently written by the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces, whose initials EMCFA – for Estado Mayor Conjunto de la Fuerza Armada – can be seen clearly printed on each of its 270 pages.

“The book proves that all of our denunciations were true – that the security forces and army were behind the forced disappearances, operating as death squads,” Guadalupe Mejía, the president of CODEFAM, an association of families of victims of human rights violations, told IPS.

More:
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/salvadoran-military-list-of-victims-a-smoking-gun/

[delrem]

1. How come US citizens don't make a connection between

US involvement with right-wing mercenaries and dictators in 1980-90's Central and S. America, and US involvement with al Qaeda and other brands in the middle-east?

I mean, isn't it "the elephant in the room"?