In May this year she tremely dangerous to be out on the • This amnesty wasn't a gift from the government but a political manoeuvre to. make their human rights image more respectable, so that they could go on receiving economic and NO LAT aid from the US and thereby continue their war of extermination against the Salvadorean people.
We political prisoners became a real problem the Salvadorean government because of pressure exerted and demands being made Dy te alerent assoclauons, committees and humanitarian institutions seeking our release.
So they came up with this halfmeasure of an amnesty which doesn't release all the prisoners in Tacl more people are still being arrested. I doesn't begin to deal with the question of those who have disappeared The decrees under which many of us were judged, are totally repressive illegal allu anu-consulutioldi they remain in full force Decrees 507 and 943, introduced in December 1980, 'legalise' the use of statements extracted under duress and without witness.
They allow the police to act as own prosecution witnesses, allow for 6 months detention without any right to defence - although actually this period is often much longer and cancel any exemptions minors, meaning that many political prisoners are just 12 or 13 years old. Despite the government anmesty, the right wing death squads continue their murder campaign How do you see the situation in El Salvador today?
the moment government and armed forces are facing one or tel worst crises will lat their own and their lack of crediblitv both al home and abroad.
On the other hand, with the increasing advances by the Farabundo National they are beginning to see that they are the This means they have to be a bit sharp about looking pollical proJect make a come-back.
That's why they are pushing this plan of political pacification, which includes the elections, the amnesty, the governmental human rights comprepare the ground fort These last • two ment. the nolding through which they claim to be restoraill ing democracy and a constitutiona.
regime In fact the elections would just be used again as a political instrument to try and gain time to defeat the FMLN, and not as a peaceful means of solving the conflict in El Salvador measures in order to win more supDUlt the counteract the posal for a dialogue. for But their fundamental aim is to improve internal and external condiTensive, the salvadorear We know internal decay beginning Liberation front for ministration. that will let them solidarity? meant the main ele elecons Salvadorean tional pressure.
'democratic' ex-prisoners Congres:
FDR-FMLN's proment tions for a future political-military ofincluding more open North American intervention.
This plan is destined to failure.
formulae only too well, and they don't begin to touch The case causes or me sao we al living through in El Salvador.
Peace can on v bi achieved in El Salvador through a political solution the FDR-FMLN'S Will proposal for dialogue The whole of the political plan 01 the region shows how much they are a tool in the hands of the Reagan ad It's a manoeuvre by which th Salvadorean government and the US can talk of peace whilst they prepare to deepen the war.
do see international International solidarity has played an important part in all aspects of the COTIC our OWI release had a lot to do with internaex-political prisoners we are now worried about the safety of our brothers and sisters who have come out of prison and are still inside the country, because the persecution of and the population in general Is continuing The international solidarity movesnot continue campaigne for the releasé of political prisoners, because far trom evervone was releas ed with the amnesty.