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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1993, March 12 | |
| On the eve of the release of the UN Truth Commission Report detailing human rights abuses during the civil war, Defense Minister Gen. René Emilio Ponce resigned, prompted by information that linked him to the 1989 murder of the Jesuit priests. The report (released on March 15) attributed 85 percent of the human rights atrocities during the war to the military and right-wing death squads. | 1 |
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| Months behind schedule, Pres. Cristiani began a purge of the military to rid it of human rights violators. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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