From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/111553.htm Published Sunday, July 22, 2001 TORTURE SUSPECTS FIND U.S. HAVEN Scores accused of atrocities live in S. Florida BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND ELISABETH DONOVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though more than 100 foreign nationals accused of human rights atrocities have recently been arrested or investigated in the United States, at least 100 others are still quietly living in this country, many with the tacit approval of the U.S. government, The Herald has found.Some arrived legally. Some were covertly assisted by U.S. intelligence officials. Others carried tourist visas issued by unwitting American consuls. Eventually, most of these alleged torturers and murderers received political asylum, temporary or permanent residence, even U.S. citizenship, which has allowed them to stay in this country despite the allegations against them.They are, according to a Herald review of their cases, men such as Alvaro Rafael Saravia Marino, who arrived in Miami in 1985 on a tourist visa issued by the U.S. Embassy -- even though just five years earlier authorities in El Salvador had identified him as a key suspect in the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980. Romero was seen as a champion of the poor and oppressed. Saravia Marino has since moved to California.``It is outrageous that known murderers and torturers are allowed to come to the United States and be shielded from justice here,'' said Reed Brody, advocacy director for the prominent human rights organization Human Rights Watch in New York.At least 80 of these foreign nationals are believed to be living in South Florida alone, according to The Herald's review. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
