Nothing resolved in slaying
More than a year has passed since the brutal slaying of four American nuns in El Salvador. Yet, in the case of those accused of having murdered our Christian sisters, nothing has been resolved to the satisfaction of the families of the victims and those of us who share in their anguish.
The reasons are obvious. While engaged in a desperate attempt to drown in blood a just movement for bread and freedom, the ruling military junta in condemning as murderers members of its own "security forces" would, in effect, be forced to condemn itself.
For those of us who expressed our outrage and anguish over the slaughter of our sisters and the thousands of men, women and children thus far, the Reagan administration countered with cruel lies designed to cast a shadow of doubt over the innocence and character of the victims.
If we are to be individuals of conscience, then we must not compromise ourselves to politics and prejudice or to the interests of this or that government or ideology. Then it may be possible someday to live in a sane world in which the innocent are no longer tortured.
Ronald F. Marshall
Providence
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