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Returning to El Salvador in the Carter years, the obvious place to learn about what was happening in the interior was the Honduran border, where 25,000 peasants fled the rampaging army that was destroying and burning down their Tory Burchvillages in 1980, many more since. But this is not Cambodia under Pol Pot, where a trip to the Thai-Cambodian border could unearth stories that had ideological serviceability, so well-behaved journalists have given the refugee camps a wide berth. These camps were, however, visited by a congressional delegation in January 1981. Tory Burch ShoesThe delegation concluded that \"The Salvadoran method of \"drying up the ocean\' involves, according to those who have fled from its violence, a combination of murder, torture, rape, the burning of crops Tory Burch Flatsin order to create starvation conditions, and a program of general terrorism and harassment.Refugees described mutilation, decapitation, children around the age of 8 being raped, and then they would take their bayonets and make mincemeat of them\"; \"the army would cut people up and put soap and coffee in their stomachs as a mocking. They would slit the stomach of a pregnant woman and take the child out, as if they were taking eggs out of an iguana. That is what I saw.\"This report was suppressed by the media, along with the facts generally; see note 34. But in the foreign press one could read refugee accounts of bombing, napalm attacks, destruction of villages, massacres, rape, torture by military forces, stories of \"an existence of almost incomprehensible brutality.
As Reagan took over in 1981, the massacres increased both in sadism and scale, with 12,501 cases documented by the Church Legal Aid Service for 1981 along with unknown numbers of others, again, attributed primarily to the various military and police forces. Meanwhile torture reached \"extraordinary dimensions,\" human rights groups who investigated the matter observed;MBT Of the many thousands of bodies which have appeared after detentions and abductions of security personnel, a very high proportion show signs of torture including dismemberment, beating, acid burns, flaying, scalping, castration, strangulation, sexual violation, and evisceration.\" Churches and Human Rights offices were attacked; MBT Shoesthe judge investigating the murder of Archbishop Romero was driven from the country by death threats and assassination attempts after the government had ensured that no investigationcould procced; relatives of another judge were murdered, their heads severed and laid at his home, to prevent inquiry into state terror, patients were machine-gunned in hospitals; peasants, teachers, health workers, union leaders, students and others were brutally tortured and murdered with increasing ferocity. Meanwhile. President Duarte and US officials attempted to cover up the atrocities and denied the complicity of the military forces and police, whom they knew to be responsible.\"
A medical mission of the US National Academy of Sciences and other professional and human rights groups investigated reportsMBT Shoes Clearance of barbarous treatment of health workers in January 1983. They report that \"Wherever we turned we found the chilling effects of the ever-widening devastation to health and health care that has been caused by the breakdown of education, the slashing of budgets for national health programs, and the repression of human beings by the systematic use of terror in ways that are hideous and frightful.\"
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