WORLD : Salvadoran Rebels Ask Cease-Fire
Salvadoran rebels today proposed a cease-fire in their country’s decade-old civil war, prosecution of human rights violators and reduction of the armed forces.
Rebel leaders made public their proposals at a news conference moments before renewing talks in Mexico City with representatives of President Alfredo Cristiani’s rightist administration.
But both sides said they have scant hope of negotiating an early end to the war, which has cost more than 70,000 lives. Three previous attempts to negotiate peace from 1984 to 1987 ended in deadlock.
Joaquin Villalobos, a top leader of the leftist Faradundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas, and seven other rebel chiefs distributed a document outlining their proposals, which they said they will present to the government.
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