From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador
The report of the commission set up under the peace agreements between the government of El Salvador and the FMLN, presented in March 1993 and transmitted to the Security Council by the UN Secretary-General. It investigates the gravest acts of violence of the war, case by case.
The commission was created by the peace agreements that ended the civil war in El Salvador, and the Secretary-General transmitted its report to the Security Council on 29 March 1993. The assassination of Archbishop Romero is its first “illustrative case” under the heading of death squad assassinations (pp. 127–131). The commission sets out the background, the failures of the official investigation and its own findings: that former Major Roberto D’Aubuisson gave the order to assassinate the archbishop and gave instructions to members of his security service, acting as a death squad, to organise and supervise the killing, and that the Supreme Court helped to ensure impunity for those who planned it.
It is the finding of an international commission of inquiry, made thirteen years after the event on the evidence it could gather; it is not the verdict of a court. See the Assassination of Óscar Romero.
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- 24 March 1980, firm date