El Salvador: Commission Formed to Find Disappeared 25 Years After Civil War

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador has launched its first commission to find people still missing from the nation's civil war (1979-1992) in another small step toward reconciling with its past after years of demands from citizens for such an agency.

The commission, set to begin its work in the coming weeks, will seek to find people, and in practically every case the remains of people, that were forcibly disappeared by the military or right-wing paramilitary forces during the conflict so that their family members can finally find resolutions.

The move to establish such a commission comes just over a year after the Constitutional Chamber of the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice nullified the General Amnesty Law, signed in 1993 as part of the peace treaty that ended the civil war, in a decision that opens the way for the prosecutions of war criminals.

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