Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
16 that appears to be one of these declassified documents?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. And have you assured yourself that the documents you have
19 reviewed for this case did indeed come as a part of that
20 declassification project?
21 A. Yes. Yes.
22 Q. The last basis for your opinion, you mentioned before the
23 United Nations Truth Commission and documentation relating to
24 its report dated March 15, 1993.
25 Could you please identify that, the kinds of
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1 documents -- the kinds of materials that related to the Truth
2 Commission that you have reviewed and relied upon in forming
3 your opinions in this case.
4 A. United Nations, as part of the peace agreements, there was
5 a decision to try to get at the truth of what were estimated
6 at 75,000 civilian murders, which Archbishop Romero is one, in
7 El Salvador. And as a -- the hope was at the time that trying
8 to get to some of the truth would in fact lead to some
9 investigations. In other words, there was no understanding
10 when this process started that there would be an amnesty the
11 day after the report was released.
12 So the idea was to investigate as much as possible
13 and to bring as much documentation as possible together to --
14 and in the time period that was allowed, it was not possible
15 to investigate all of the murders of all of the civilians who
16 died in El Salvador, but certain murders were -- a number of
17 murders were investigated, either because they were so
18 important in the history of this story or because specific
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