Review by Richard Walker, Salvadorean Film sions, Vietnam and The Spanish Civil War.
Sadly, strengths of these earlier C4 commissions.
The film makers Jeff Harmon and Chris Wenner believe that the vast majority of El Salvador's people ente nothing or don't want to •KnOW their country's struggles. that the Salvadoreans who are involved are confined to a statistically negligible group of Malconicills who divorced the concerns of the majority.
The Front Line further contends that, whatever the ideology, the outcome is the same the baractions Right are interchangeable WIll. Lic actions of the Left. 4 on Saturday 9 July follows a series of C4 commisThe Front Line exhibits none of the The contention that the FMLN are responsible for a large proportion of these deaths is not a new one but, apart trom the most myopic sources who put forward this line, it no longer has credibility Testimony given in March 1981 by Leonel Gomez, a former official in the Salvadorean Government, • to ine US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, makes the reality plain.
Gomez, who is not supporter of the mite Subcommittee that the vast maioritv the killings are carried out tea vuity of my 'search and destroy' missions in the countryside or by 'death squads' that operate under the direction of local army commanders.
'The fundamental pro in the film.' The unchallenged assertion that the forces of the FMLN torture murder their prisoners more credible. The records of tional Red Cross details the ICCiu prisoners from the FMLN and the return of those prisoners to the nearest army base is in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
The opposimilitar the FMLN their LOU progressive of the The Democratic Front encompass represenlaves international diplomatic health care, production, This joblessness,
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THE FRONT LINE, the latest television documen- tary on the war in El Salvador, screened on Channel