Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
23 19 -- I don't remember if it's 1980 or 1981. It's 1980. I
24 actually don't remember if it's 1980 or 1981, but I know he
25 left as a result of death threats to him and a bombing -- an
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1 attempted bombing, a bomb that was placed in his car, as well
2 as written and other threats.
3 Q. I take it by asking not to identify where he lives today,
4 that you believe that he still has security concerns?
5 A. That's right.
6 Q. Any other interviews that are of note?
7 THE COURT: Well, let me ask this. When you say
8 security concerns, what is the origin of the concern? In
9 other words, the subject?
10 THE WITNESS: Why is he worried?
11 THE COURT: Yes.
12 THE WITNESS: If you review -- we haven't talked
13 about the declassified documents yet, but if you review U.S.
14 declassified documents over this period of time and you also
15 listen to the -- if you also do the kind of interviewing I
16 have done, there is, particularly among military or former
17 military officers of the Right, there is a tremendous amount
18 of animus towards Colonel Majano.
19 They believe that he started a process in which the
20 military would no longer rule the country. The military was
21 the government. It was a military authoritarian government,
22 and the military had ruled El Salvador in all of its modern
23 history, really, but very openly since there was a modern
24 military of 1932 on. It had been "the" government.
25 And the most of the military officers wanted to
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