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Central America: Legacies of Rebellion
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Fr Jon Cortina, founder of the Association in Search of Missing Children, standing with Suyapa Serrano, whose sister was allegedly abducted by the military during the civil war. Mike with his brother-in-law and father-in-law.

El Salvador

 

Programme two visits El Salvador, where 75,000 died during 12 years of civil war between left-wing guerrillas and the US-backed government.

Mike takes us with him as his revisits the north of the country, the scene of some of the worst fighting, and his wife’s family home. He meets former rebel fighters, some now in government, and asks whether they feel the war was worth fighting?

He puts the same question to a man alleged to have backed right-wing death squads in the 80s.

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Further information:
Association in Search of the Missing Children (El Salvador)

Read more:
El Salvador's suffering lingers on


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