Hands Off
Socialist Press1981 1981-04-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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This is a small taste of military support in setting allyult wild Icsisto BULLE News is emerging of a fresh massacre carried out by the military junta in El Salvador.
Over 1500 refugeesincluding 600 children as well as old people-were fleeing towards the Honduran out by the Salvadorean army. They sought shelter in caves known as 'La Pintada' between the two municipalities of Yaruleta and Santa Elena.
But when the Army received reports of people hiding in the caves they immediately surrounded them and pumped in poison gas. Anyone trying to escape was shot. All 1,500 men, women and children were killed.
This is Three thousand the real character of the brutal regime propped up by huge economic and military aid from Reagan's US administration, with the eager backing of the Thatcher The civilian head of the junta, Duarte, has estimated that some 300,000 killings may be necessary to "pacify" El Salvador by crushing the militant resistance of the working class and rural poor.
The Salvadorean armed forces have been able to count on growing US military support in setting Derry Trades Council (domabout this slaughter.
American "advisors" including teams of the psychopathic Green Berets have been playing an increasingly prominent role in moves to defeat the left wing guerrilla forces fighting under the banner of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
The latest US tactic is the so-called Operation Herod' which involves the creation of a free fire zone down the entire width of the country. Villages in the zone are to be burned to the ground and anyone who resists gunned Edinburgh Trades Council Yet the junta has bee unable to cow the resistan‹ of the masses. And more an more capitalist governmen and social democratic leade in Europe are now attemp ing to persuade the Reaga regime to abandon i military intervention an instead seek a political agre ment with the bourgeo leaders of the Democrat Revolutionary Front (FDR It is vital that the Briti working class plays its role i opposing imperialist repre sion in El Salvador, whi firmly rejecting any attemp to pressurise the masses ‹ Salvador into a politic compromise.
#US hands off Salvador!
*Support for ary struggles Central America.
*Demand blackin strikes and all other nece sary action to halt arms ar aid to the junta!
*Down with the Duar dictatorship!
*For a workers' and pea ants' government Salvador!
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