Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
19 complaints were brought forward by families who did not feel
20 comfortable bringing them in front of any Salvadoran court.
21 There was a process set up -- there were two
22 processes set up that are important in this. One was the
23 Truth Commission, which included three leading jurists, one of
24 them from the United States.
25 And there was also a separate process which actually
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1 fed into the Truth Commission that was the process of
2 investigating the human rights abuses of officers inside El
3 Salvador for the purposes of deciding which officers had to be
4 purged from the Salvadoran military as part of the peace
5 agreement.
6 And some of that information about the human rights
7 records of various military officers in El Salvador also was
8 fed into the Truth Commission process.
9 The Truth Commission investigated a whole range of
10 crimes under the auspices of the United Nations, and
11 eventually published a report, which is available on line, and
12 it's available, it's very easy to access to that report.
13 MR. Van AELSTYN: For your information, your Honor,
14 it has been submitted into evidence as Exhibit Number 98, and
15 we will turn to it a little bit later.
16 BY MR. Van AELSTYN:
17 Q. But Professor Karl, two questions. First goes to your
18 qualification and the next to the basis for your opinion.
19 With regard to qualification, did you, yourself, play
20 any role in the Truth Commission or related investigations?
21 A. I played no role in the Truth Commission except to give
22 them access to material that I had, which they used.
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