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Caribbean & Central America - March 2017 (ISSN 1741-4458)

EL SALVADOR: No money to probe civil-war-era abuses

The attorney general, Douglas Meléndez, said this month that he had received no reply from the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén after appealing for more resources to investigate cases of human rights violations committed during El Salvador’s civil war (1980-1992). The amnesty law shielding perpetrators of human rights abuses from prosecution during this period was annulled last July by the constitutional chamber of the supreme court.

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