Army's Human Rights Office Has Yet to Quiet Critics

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 17, 1991| Author: Lee Hockstader | Copyright information

Dressed in mufti, Maj. Roberto Molina greets a visitor with a handshake and a self-effacing smile. A cross dangles around his neck. It is a sharp departure from the usual image of gun-toting, stony-faced Salvadoran army officers - and it is meant to be.

Molina is the affable face that the Salvadoran military puts forward these days to meet its harshest critics: human rights organizations, religious groups and others who come to ask about abuses attributed to the armed forces.

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