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8-<strong>25</strong>-<strong>04</strong> <strong>Trial</strong> <strong>Transcript</strong><br />
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1 immigration they would -- they could detain me and take me and<br />
2 kill me.<br />
3 So what I decided was to leave the city through the<br />
4 Gulf of Fonseca on a boat, a big boat, with a friend who took<br />
5 me.<br />
6 Q. To what country did you go?<br />
7 A. I we want to Nicaragua because I could not go through<br />
8 Honduras because people from El Salvador could not go into<br />
9 Honduras. So I had to go through the Gulf of Fonseca directly<br />
10 into Nicaragua.<br />
11 Q. And how many years passed until you returned to El<br />
12 Salvador?<br />
13 A. (The witness became emotional.) Almost ten years. Almost<br />
14 ten years.<br />
15 Q. Just a few more questions, Judge Ramirez, and we will be<br />
16 finished.<br />
17 A. I am fine.<br />
18 Q. I just want to return to the moment before that, when you<br />
19 were investigating the assassination of Monseñor <strong>Romero</strong>.<br />
20 Earlier, we discussed the normal procedures for investigating<br />
21 a case.<br />
22 Would you consider the investigation of Monseñor's<br />
23 murder to be normal?<br />
24 A. No. No.<br />
<strong>25</strong> Q. In the case of Monseñor <strong>Romero</strong>, did the National Police<br />
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1 arrive first at the scene, as they normally would do?<br />
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