Speaker. as supporters of U.S. intervention in El Salvador seek to justify that policy. there is much talk of a beleaguered centrist government. under fire from the left and the right. A horrifying massacre occurred last year. which. if the U.S. press had reported it. might have clarified the true nature of the moderate Salvadoran Government that millions of American tax dollars are supporting. On this occassion. the Salvadoran Army attacked fleeing refugees who were trying to cross the border into Honduras. Church witnesses estimate that as many as 600 women and children were slaughtered. The sadism and depravity displayed by the troops. as reported by the following article from the London Sunday Times of February 22. 1981. is one of the most horrifying examples of violations of human rights that I have ever read.
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