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On July 23, a US federal jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., ordered two retired Salvadoran generals to pay US$54.6 million to three Salvadoran victims of torture.
The two generals--former Minister of Defense Jose Guillermo Garcia and former National Guard director Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova--were prominent military leaders during the bloodiest years of El Salvador's civil war. As minister of defense, Garcia commanded the military and security forces from 1979 until his retirement in 1983. Vides served under Garcia as head of the now-extinct National Guard.
According to the United Nations' Truth Commission report, most of the atrocities in the civil war were committed by state security forces (see Update, 1993-03-26).
The two retired generals, who have lived in Florida since 1989 (see NotiCen, 1999-05-20), were exonerated in November 2000 of charges that they were responsible for their subordinates' rape and murder of four American churchwomen in 1980 (see NotiCen, 2000-11-16).
The failed civil lawsuit represented the first time that plaintiffs had brought a court case against foreign officials under the Torture Victims Protection Act. The...
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