Mr. President. earlier this month the world was once more shocked by the brutality that daily characterizes the conflict in El Salvador. In Chalatenango Province near the Honduran border. awash with refugees and the scene of many of the most violent outbreaks in the current civil war. 28 peasants were murdered. their bodies marred and many mutilated. and all dumped beneath a local bridge some time after midnight on July 7. While the Salvadoran Armed Forces officially "lament such a horrendous crime." the archbishop of San Salvador. other prominent Salvadorans. and the peasants themselves in Chalatenango have pointed to these same forces as being responsible for this latest atrocity. Despite the armys denial of complicity. the mass burial of these bodies by the armed forces occurred in secret. without notifying the authorities responsible for issuing burial permits.
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