Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970007916

We must be determined to see through the difficult process of dialog in El Salvador. encouraging an inplace military truce with no further external military supplies to permit such mediation to succeed. Second. we should pursue jointly an end to government repression of political opposition and encourage determined steps to halt the senseless killings of innocent civilians in that nation. We should support expanded operations of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to protect and provide for these victims of civil war. Third. we should insist on bringing to justice those responsible for the recent murders of six American citizens. As the Washington Post remarked in an editorial on February 18. the investigation into these deaths "cannot be parked in a human rights cubbyhole.
Keywords matched
Refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1981-02-24
Speech ID
970007916
Paragraph
#0
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