GENOCIDE CHARGES

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32034, 8 July 1969, Page 15

GENOCIDE CHARGES

O.A.S. Team Sees Film

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyriphi) SAN SALVADOR, July 7. Films showing castrated men and raped women, the alleged victims of Honduran troops, were shown in San Salvador today to an international mission. The mission, from the human rights committee of the Organisation of American States, is investigating charges of violations of human rights and genocide levelled by El Salvador against her Central American neighbour, Honduras. El Salvador and Honduras severed diplomatic relations recently after riots over a series of elimination soccer matches for next year’s World Cup. About 11,000 Salvadoreans living in Honduras fled across the frontier. El Salvador officials told the O.A.S. mission today that the atrocities shown in the films were committed by members of the Special Security Corps of the Honduran Army. The O.A.S. mission later visited refugee camps for Salvadoreans who have fled from Honduras.

Protest Rewarded Three thousand inhabitants of Qualiana, a village near Naples, threw up road blocks today to - demand a better water supply, and were given it almost immediately. The villagers, sick of their taps running dry, barricaded all the roads in the area with debris, iron tubes and furniture for about three hours until police finally persuaded them to give up. Shortly afterwards, workmen came with new pipes to give them more water.—Naples, July 7.1