In Latin America. crushing poverty based on social inequalities and enforced by brutal police forces. oppress the vast majority of people in many countries. The cruel and tragic deaths of the four American churchwomen over a year ago in El Salvador was dramatic proof for most Americans that human life in that tormented country is meaningless. That is the ultimate violation of human rights. The daily indignities of poverty. perpetuated by privilege and enforced by violence. are the cancer that threatens the entire region with civil strife and anarchy. In Asia. a steady stream of refugees shows us the consequences of systematic violations of human rights in Cambodia. Vietnam. China.
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