The World - News from Dec. 11, 1987
A gunman killed Joaquin Cardenas, 32, a regional delegate to El Salvador’s government Commission on Human Rights, as he returned to his home in San Miguel, 86 miles east of the capital, commission leader Benjamin Cestoni reported. A local radio station received an anonymous telephone call about the slaying, but no group has claimed responsibility for it, Cestoni said. It was the first slaying of a member of the government human rights body. On Oct. 26, Herbert Ernesto Anaya, 32, the president of the independent Human Rights Commission, was killed outside his home in San Salvador. Anaya’s death sparked several days of demonstrations. No one has been arrested for Anaya’s slaying, which the Roman Catholic Church blamed on political rightists.
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