Catholic Church criticizes amnesty proposal in El Salvador

[Judi Lynn]

Catholic Church leaders in El Salvador have condemned a proposal being considered by lawmakers that would grant amnesty to those who committed serious crimes during the country's civil conflict in the 1980s and early 1990s

By The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — 3h ago

Catholic Church leaders in El Salvador have condemned a proposal being considered by lawmakers that would grant amnesty to those who committed serious crimes during the country's civil conflict in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The Episcopal Conference of El Salvador said in a statement Sunday that it would be an "unjust" law that would protect the perpetrators of heinous crimes while offering no reparations or protections for victims of human rights abuses.

The constitutional arm of El Salvador's Supreme Court ordered the congress in 2016 to draft a new reconciliation law by July 2019 that would lead to truth, justice and reparations for victims of the conflict.

More than 75,000 people were killed and 10,000 others went missing during the decade-long conflict in the Central American country.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/catholic-church-criticizes-amnesty-proposal-el-salvador-61750456

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[gopiscrap]

1. Fuck that!

[Beakybird]

2. Reagan loved the death squads. His kind of people.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Sadistic rapists, child killers, people who should have never been born at all are his legacy.

Atrocities were committed by his people which were so wildly beyond ordinary warfare as to seem impossible in this universe.

That sweet, little, wrinkled barf-bag with the shockingly black blob of hair on his head, and a delight in lying to cover the savagery enthralled and excited the unfortunate flood of inbreds like no other "President." He's at the top of the Republican totem poll, for the moment, soon to be replaced by Donald Dump.

[TlalocW]

3. I have a friend from El Salvador

Who grew up during that time and still can't sleep well. She spits whenever she says Reagan's name.

TlalocW

[Judi Lynn]

5. What a shame they showed her nightmares can happen in broad daylight when the doors of hell are open

long enough for more sadistic madmen to terrorize, torment, destroy more men, women, children.

Your friend has seen far more than she can ignore, rationalize, forget. What has been left for others to learn about after the fact is unforgivable.

Hoping like crazy there will be an accounting for each one of them, even though it appears justice moves unbelievably slowly.

It's good she has people in her life now who do care so much about what has happened to her. That has to help, here's hoping.