Volume 40, Number 8 · April 22, 1993
Truth and El Salvador
By Murray Kempton
Seventy-five thousand men, women, and children were killed in El Salvador's ten years of civil war in circumstances uniformly atrocious, and invisibly of consequence to the game of nations. Peace at last prevails, blessedly if uneasily; and the United Nations, which could in no way restrain that decade's dreadful course, has now undertaken at least to describe it. Its Commission on the Truth about El Salvador has now given us the fruit of six months of close study.
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