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> Human Rights Groups Release Secret Salvadoran Military Intelligence > Document: the "Yellow Book" > > Civil War-Era Catalog of "Enemies," Many Killed or Disappeared, Made > Public on International Right to Know Day > > Posting Includes Analyses of Case Studies Spotlighting Victims' Fates > > National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 485 > > Posted -- September 28, 2014, in recognition of International Right to > Know Day > > For more information contact: > Kate Doyle (National Security Archive) -- 646.670.8841, > kado...@email.gwu.edu > Angelina Snodgrass Godoy (UW Center for Human Rights) -- 206.616.3585, > ago...@u.washington.edu > > Washington, D.C., September 28, 2014 -- Today, In recognition of > International Right to Know Day, the National Security Archive has posted > online the entirety of the "Yellow Book," an extraordinary documentary > record by the Army of El Salvador, illustrating their work targeting > citizens considered enemies of the regime during the 1970s and 1980s. > > View our promotional video: http://youtu.be/nDYlSuWxnZM > > The 1987 document from the archives of El Salvador's military intelligence > identifies almost two thousand Salvadorans who were considered "delinquent > terrorists" by the Armed Forces, among them current President Salvador > Sanchez Ceren, a former guerrilla leader. Other individuals listed include > human rights advocates, labor leaders, and political figures, many known to > have been victims of illegal detention, torture, extrajudicial execution, > forced disappearance, and other human rights abuses. > > Called the Libro Amarillo or Yellow Book, the report is the first-ever > confidential Salvadoran military document to be made public, and the only > evidence to appear from the Salvadoran Army's own files of the surveillance > methods used by security forces to target Salvadoran citizens during the > country's 12-year civil war. Accompanying today's posting are related > analysis and declassified U.S. documents, gathered through a collaboration > between the National Security Archive, the University of Washington Center > for Human Rights and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). > > View the Yellow Book posting on the National Security Archive's website: > http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB485/ > > Analysis by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group has determined that > approximately 43% of names in the Yellow Book correspond with reports of > human rights violations registered by Salvadoran human rights organizations > and the U.N. Truth Commission during the period of 1980 to 1992. > > The current publication includes three case studies, two featuring recent > interviews with survivors of illegal detention and torture who are profiled > in the Yellow Book. "To live to see this book, it makes you feel happy to > be alive, that they weren't able to kill you," said Hector Bernabe Recinos, > a union leader arrested in 1980 who appears in the document, "because the > decision to eliminate you had been close." > > "For more than twenty years, El Salvador's military establishment has > stonewalled victims and their families about its role in human rights > abuses committed during the civil war," said Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst of > U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. "The > publication of the Yellow Book is a direct challenge to the military's > continued silence and its refusal to release its historical archives > relating to that era." > > Check out today's posting at the National Security Archive - > http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB485/ > > Find us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/NSArchive > > Unredacted, the Archive blog - http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/ > > > ________________________________________________________ > THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research > institute and library located at The George Washington University in > Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents > acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public > charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is > supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and > individuals. > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
