Ju
and 'peace in. E ·Salvad.or
,Jr.
The brutal of
. Jesuit priests in EI Salvador
reaewed the worldwide out­
cry for a op to the massive
b oodshed that has resulted in
the I of tens of thousands of
lives in the decade-old civil war.
The Ar ishop of EI/Sal-
vador, Arturo Rivera y Damas,
h now accused the military of
the Government of EI Salvador
for being responsible for this
latest act of inhumanity.
Archbishop Rivera stated
that these kjJJjnp. have "pu our
COUDtry in first p ce in terms of
barbarity."
The right wing Attorney
Gener I of EI Salvador,
Mauricio Co orado has now ap­
pealed to th Pop to remove
the remaining Jesuit priests
from EI Salvador for t ir own
safety.
Once again, to our dismay
the Government of the U nited
tares finds it elf on th wrong
ide of history.
'The fir t mi lake the Bush
Administration made was
suming that the right wing
Government of El alvadoran
President Cristiani would
divorc it elf fr m i n olvement
of the n toriou right wing
military d ath squads that ve
become commonplace in EI
Salvador during lh last ten
year .
The murders of innocent
civilian in EI Salv dor has ac­
tually incre ed und 'r the Cris­
tiani admini tr ti n de pite
President Bus h' .erti icati n
CIVIL
RIGHTS
ca . a classic case of blam­
ing the- victims for their vic:'
timization. .
, Will Attorney General"
Colorado vigorously attempt to
prosecute and bring to justice
the killers who proudly wore
, their EI Salvador army uniforms
as they murdered the priests
and two other innocent women?
When will the so-called
democratic government of the
Government of EI Salvador
bring to justice those who par­
ticipated in the assassination of
Archbishop Oscar Romero
who was murdered while he was
attempting to bold Mass in EI
Salvador?
How can the Bush Ad­
ministration continue to justify
using Ll.S, tax dollars to fund
this kind of barbarity? We know
the are hard questions. Ye ,
these questions must be raised
and answers must be
dem ded.
With all of the changes for
the better that appear to be hap­
pening in eastern Europe, it is '
our hope th t soon some chan­
ges for the better will begin to
appear in places like EI Sal­
vador, Nicaragua, Angola,
South Afri and in the Middle
East.
One thing i clear, the will of
the people of El alvador to be
free and to have justice is
stronger than the will of those
who continue to deny them
peace.
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An African Perspective:
Why America Shoul.d be 'Globally Op n'
to the u.s. Congre that Cris­
tiani is providing elementary
democracy in that war-torn
country.
The greatest provider of
military equipment and am­
munition to the EI Salvadoran
government forces is the United
States.
This is indeed not only
another sad commentary con­
cerning U.S. foreign policy
toward Central America, but
also this particular tragedy
could be opped.
The expression, "there can
be 0 pe ce without justice," is
certainly an essential truth that
applies to the deteriorating
situation in EI Salvador. The
people of the United States
must join with the p ople of El
alvador in their cry for ju: tice
and for an end to U .S. military
support of the 'right wing
Government of EI Salvador.
For the Attorney General of
EI Salvador to infer that the six
Jesuit priests were murdered
because of their advocacy of
"liber tion theology" and their
sympathy for left-of-center
fmite irony of isolationism in
human affairs. It goes like this:
The pigeon.,. the pigeon
perches
on"top of an nlhill
And looks, . h roog
inclfferer.ce •
At t fow tanclng on bare
ground,
F 'ng
80th pigeon
ng
On ,.
Butter, they say, laughs at-Sa
Me ·00 under the cold r ·ns.
But w ·"'.sooner or Iat r, .
The cold rains ould cease.
The clouds caring for the
hot sun
To ·ne.
Then hal we see hose
tum it is
Tome !
If an African were asked to
name three of his favorite
American Presidents, the chan­
ces are that his choices would be
in the following order. John F.
Kennedy, Abra am Lin cola
and Franklin D. Roo evelt.
aw, . te
, thread· . the 35th, l6Ih aDd
32Ddpr. ol U·ed
S of America corporately
to· esteem in the AfricaD
. ? The ply the
abiding sease of . «
those national Icadc to the
creed of lIUIt1aabtY __
Now, the question is: why the
fuss, the injunction for America
to be "globally open," anyway?
The futility of isol tionism
aside, I would answer the ques­
tioa on two fron . Fir 1, unlike
- mo t European countries,
America never a colonizing
nation; I� knowledge of life in
the developing world is there­
fore relatively lean. Such Ie -
n . liab e to affect its policy
judgme to a point of . eaat­
. tbeworld.
Second, America today is,
UDQue.-oo· lDabIy, the leader of
the free ld. A r DSibility
olleldenbip that the
di po ition of tbe leader is
eawllable aDd . •• In this
CODICIl, kiDd of· pira-
boa,
.' (I • p derive fro
aJl as ociation in hich the
r exudes an air of genteel
DODcha1ance aud' uIarity?-
B1
Fulbright SchoUu in A/riCIIII
Literature DePauw University,
Gr. encastle, Ind. and an
award-winning playwright lrom
Nigeria
The years 1852 to 1941 are
I unique in American history.
The period has since come
down to posterity "the Age of
Isolationis"m" affirmed by the
oaroe Doctrine-a n tiona}
polity of aloofness from liaison
• other COUDtri • The reault
of that experiment, h ever,
to confirm the age-old
-00 man caD be an is-
If."
That ete e Iron Curt . is
today exposing a a c in its tex­
ture to accommodate politico­
ecooomic aoss-ventilaitoo .
ideological antipodes UDder the
q . of Own t" is further
t to the futility of
tioeal l lationism in inte
tiooal relations. Our Afric:aD
elders have a pro erb on the in-
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