Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
5 Is that somebody you have interviewed?
6 A. Absolutely.
7 Q. Go on.
8 THE COURT: I take it that you speak Spanish?
9 THE WITNESS: I speak Spanish, yes.
10 I interviewed all sides of -- this is a very
11 conflictual country, which is probably very clear right now.
12 I have interviewed all sides, including all factions
13 of the Left, various factions of the Christian Democratic
14 Party and other political parties. Various factions in the
15 Right, the military, and I think I have interviewed people in
16 every branch of the military and the police.
17 I have done extensive investigations of patterns and
18 practices of repression. I have done extensive investigations
19 of death squads and how they function. I have interviewed
20 people who are in death squads and have talked to me about the
21 actions that they have carried out.
22 I have interviewed, when there was a civil war going
23 on, I interviewed also inside the guerilla zones.
24 I think I have talked to a lot of people in El
25 Salvador.
KARL - D
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1 BY MR. Van AELSTYN:
2 Q. Professor Karl, I think there is one question on probably
3 everybody's mind, which is -- and this is a little off the
4 topic, but how have you done this? It sounds like a very
5 conflicted area.
6 A. Very, very carefully. I do not research in El Salvador
7 any more. It is an extremely -- it was, and in some cases
8 continues to be, an extremely dangerous place to do research.
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