Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
12 was going to be my role was to look at the actual electoral
13 council, how it functioned, the rules of the elections, but it
14 ended up that there was serious questions about the conduct
15 and safety of those elections in key areas, and I ended up
16 having to investigate places where there had been high threats
17 of violence during those elections.
18 Q. Professor Karl, I would like to turn now to your
19 publications, and they fill numerous pages. So I will leave
20 it for the Court to review at another time, but are there any
21 concerning El Salvador, any of your publications concerning El
22 Salvador that you believe might be particularly relevant to
23 this proceeding?
24 A. Well, there is a whole list of them, and not to take a lot
25 of time, I would just say I would highlight two. One is the
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1 article I did for Foreign Affairs on the El Salvadoran peace
2 agreements. I think that is still considered -- it was the
3 first article and it is still considered the main one. It is
4 used every year in teaching the U.S. military at Westpoint and
5 at other places. So that's probably one of the more important
6 ones.
7 Q. That was written about the peace agreement?
8 A. It was written about the peace agreement, but it sums up a
9 lot of my knowledge prior to the peace agreement as well.
10 And I think the second -- I don't want to point to
11 one or the other, but there is a whole body of writings of
12 mine that have to do precisely with the period of time that we
13 are talking about and the move towards civil war, the
14 development of the civil war, the development of repressive
15 apparatus inside El Salvador.
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