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Confidential files on El Salvador human rights stolen after legal action against CIA
Source: The Guardian
Confidential files on El Salvador human rights stolen after legal action against CIA
US group says computer and hard drive containing survivor testimony about El
Salvador civil war was stolen from Washington office
Nina Lakhani
Friday 23 October 2015 11.00 BST
Confidential files containing evidence of violations committed during El Salvador’s civil war have been stolen from a Washington-based human rights group just days after it launched legal proceedings against the CIA over classified files on a former US-backed military commander implicated in massacres, deaths squads and forced disappearances.
A computer and hard drive containing testimonies from survivors were stolen from the office of the director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) last week.
The director’s office was the only one raided, there were no signs of forced entry, and items of monetary value were left behind, raising concerns that it could have been a targeted attack linked to the group’s sensitive work, said UWCHR.
The stolen files contained details of investigations related to the 1980-1992 civil war which left at least 75,000 people dead, 8,000 missing and a million displaced. The vast majority of crimes were committed by US-backed military dictatorships against civilians in rural communities suspected of supporting the leftist guerrillas, according to the UN-sponsored truth commission.
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US group says computer and hard drive containing survivor testimony about El
Salvador civil war was stolen from Washington office
Nina Lakhani
Friday 23 October 2015 11.00 BST
Confidential files containing evidence of violations committed during El Salvador’s civil war have been stolen from a Washington-based human rights group just days after it launched legal proceedings against the CIA over classified files on a former US-backed military commander implicated in massacres, deaths squads and forced disappearances.
A computer and hard drive containing testimonies from survivors were stolen from the office of the director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) last week.
The director’s office was the only one raided, there were no signs of forced entry, and items of monetary value were left behind, raising concerns that it could have been a targeted attack linked to the group’s sensitive work, said UWCHR.
The stolen files contained details of investigations related to the 1980-1992 civil war which left at least 75,000 people dead, 8,000 missing and a million displaced. The vast majority of crimes were committed by US-backed military dictatorships against civilians in rural communities suspected of supporting the leftist guerrillas, according to the UN-sponsored truth commission.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/23/el-salvador-civil-war-classified-files-stolen
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