Mourners Pack Streets for Guerrilla’s Funeral
From Times Wire Reports
Tens of thousands of mourners said farewell to former communist guerrilla chief Schafik Handal, in the country’s biggest street gathering in more than 25 years.
Handal was a senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, the rebel group that fought a series of U.S.-backed right-wing regimes throughout the 1980s in a war that claimed an estimated 75,000 lives.
He died of a heart attack Tuesday. He was 75.
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