Witness testifies he was tortured in El Salvador

Lawsuit accuses ex-colonel of letting soldiers do it

By WOODY BAIRD
Associated Press


MEMPHIS — A federal court witness testified yesterday that he was tortured in 1983 by a group of men led by a subordinate of a former Salvadoran colonel accused of human rights abuses.

Nicolas Carranza, 72, a top officer during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, is being sued in U.S. District Court by five Salvadorans who accuse him of allowing torture and murder by his soldiers.

Daniel Alvarado, one of the accusers, said he was kidnapped while watching a soccer game in El Salvador in 1983 and tortured over several days into confessing to the murder of a U.S. military adviser.

Alvarado, 46, said he was hung blindfolded from a ceiling, repeatedly beaten and shocked with electrical wires attached to his body. <anip>

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his policy in Latin America was murderous.
Negroponte was in position to look the other way, away from the death squads. His new gig is ... proconsul of Iraq!

been promoted to intelligence czar ...