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Salvador Bishop Assails Guerrilla Killing of 19

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From Reuters

The top Roman Catholic churchman in El Salvador on Sunday condemned leftist guerrillas for an attack on a hamlet that killed 19 people and said such acts cast doubt on the warring parties’ desire to end the five-year-old civil war.

Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, speaking at the capital’s Metropolitan Cathedral, said the guerrilla assault last Monday against Santa Cruz Loma, a string of huts alongside a rural road 25 miles southeast of the capital, had “moved the nation’s conscience.”

According to villagers, between 200 and 300 guerrillas shelled the hamlet with mortar fire, burned alive a family in their home and then searched houses, dragging people out and killing them.

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