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El Salvador: Methods Use To Document Human Rights Violations, Gloria Valencia-Weber Jan 1986

El Salvador: Methods Use To Document Human Rights Violations, Gloria Valencia-Weber

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This study describes and analyzes the methods used to document human rights abuses in El Salvador, focusing on the methods used by the United States Government through its Embassy in San Salvador, and by Tutela Legal, a nongovernmental monitoring agency in San Salvador. The authors examined Tutela and U.S. records which were relevant and available for 1980 through 1984 and used post-1984 official statements which relate to methods. The focus is on the method used for the documentation of the murder or disappearance of civilians. This paper begins with an examination of the current international human rights standards as they …