Mr. Speaker. in January of this year I had the unique opportunity to learn from an eyewitness source of a military operation conducted by U.S.-backed Salvadorn troops against a column of close to 1.000 refugees in the Cabanas Province of El Salvador. Phillipe Bourgois. an American graduate student from Stanford University. related to me and later to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on InterAmerican Affairs. his chilling account of the massive aerial attack launched upon the civilian population. In response to these atrocities. I. along with several of my colleagues issued a letter to President Reagan asking for a fullscale investigation into Mr.
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