Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
19 confirm it to me or do you think something different today?"
20 I have done a number of reinterviewing and I have
21 also done some traveling to interview people.
22 Q. Could you just give us a few examples of those. I'm sure
23 some of those will come up with regard to specific issues, but
24 perhaps you can give us some example in general.
25 A. Yes. I have reinterviewed people who were formally
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1 members of the Christian Democratic Party, which is pretty
2 much destroyed in this process, so it is not as active a
3 political party as it was before, in the process of the war,
4 excuse me.
5 I have reinterviewed some military officers,
6 including Colonel Majano, who is very -- who was the --
7 Q. Who was he? His name came up earlier today.
8 A. I'm going to, hopefully, talk about him a little bit
9 later. But he, in October 1979, there is a coup in El
10 Salvador by reformist military officers led by Colonel Majano.
11 That coup is the first coup in El Salvador history that
12 reformist military officers had actually been prominent in the
13 government. So it is a major watershed in the history of El
14 Salvador.
15 And it is actually the key event, I believe, for
16 understanding the unfolding that follows and that results in
17 the murder of Archbishop Romero.
18 Q. We won't go to that at the moment, but could you just tell
19 us where Colonel Majano is today? Is he in El Salvador?
20 A. I prefer not to answer that. He is not in El Salvador.
21 Q. Do you know approximately when he left El Salvador?
22 A. I'm not sure I remember the date. But I believe it's
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