Peasants flee fighting
NZPA-Reuter San Salvador
More than 40.000 peasants had fled their homes in casern El Salvador, where political violence rages between Leftist guerrillas and Government troops, the Armed Forces said yesterday. An official bulletin said the military had launched an anti-guerrilla campaign in the departments of San Miguel, Moraz'an and La Union,
where they said that Leftists had “spread terror’’ and caused the exodus. The El Salvador Human Rights Commission and the Roman Catholic Church have blamed the Armed Forces for the exodus. The official bulletin said “several dozen” guerrillas had been killed in the-area and that soldiers had cfeared out several guerfialla canipS where food, arms and mater,-
■ ials to make ammunition I were stashed. “Many of the dead had i Afro-Cuban characteristics t and could have been Cuban, t Nicaraguan or Panamanian • mercenaries,” the bulletin, said. . .- - ’ I . Journalists who visited the ; area said they found burned i and abandoned villages. They I saw evidence of mortars and bother heavy weapons having ■ I been used there.
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Press, 24 October 1980, Page 6
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