El Salvador: No justice 20 years on from UN Truth Commission

15 March 2013
El Salvador: No justice 20 years on from UN Truth Commission

This year, Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz should be celebrating their 38th and 34th birthdays surrounded by relatives.

But no one knows where they are. And the people who might hold a clue remain silent.

31 years ago, the then 7 and 3 year old girls were snatched from their family in the municipality of San Antonio de la Cruz, northern El Salvador.

It was 1982, and the Central American country was going through the bloodiest period of an armed conflict that lasted from 1980 to 1992 and took thousands of lives.

Across the country, army battalions fronted scorched-earth campaigns, killing anyone and anything they came across, burning houses and razing crops.

More:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/el-salvador-no-justice-20-years-un-truth-commission-2013-03-15