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Human rights abuses were rampant during the decade-plus Salvadoran Civil War, including El Mozote Massacres, the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero in 1980, the Zona Rosa attacks, and the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests. Human rights abuses were examined by the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador and the Ad Hoc Commission.
Violence against women in El Salvador (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Human rights abuses in El Salvador" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
By late 1979, tensions once again rose in El Salvador, with the government of General Carlos Humberto Romero committing various human rights abuses, leading Catholic clergymen to speak out against the injustices. In October 1979, Carlos Humberto Romero was ousted in a military coup. The coup compounded with the assassination of Óscar Romero ...
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In the following days, the West Campus of the University of El Salvador was raided by the National Guard and the now-defunct Treasury Police and National Police. [8] These raids included other human rights abuses committed by these same armed forces in the city of Santa Ana, the location of the West UES Campus.
Due to almost 1000 citizens being killed in a span of three days, the El Mozote massacre came to be known as the most notorious case of human rights violation in the history of El Salvador. One of the human rights violations made by the massacre was the right to due process and fair trial. [1]
In 1992, as part of the peace settlement established by the Chapultepec Peace Accords signed in Mexico City on January 16 of that year, the United Nations-sanctioned Truth Commission for El Salvador investigating human rights abuses committed during the war, supervised the exhumations of the El Mozote's remains by the Argentine Forensic ...
The ensuing crackdown has seen more than 72,000 arrests, been credited with severely damaging El Salvador's criminal gangs, and generated controversy over allegations of human rights abuses. The fifth phase of the government crackdown entails establishing circles around communities, especially large cities, to prevent gang members from fleeing ...