The World - News from Nov. 21, 1985
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The human rights situation in El Salvador has improved since the election of President Jose Napoleon Duarte last year, but political murders and torture continue, a report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights said. It praised the Duarte administration’s attempts to curb political violence but criticized the armed forces for “unjustified deaths and injuries” to civilians, and leftist rebels for an increase in murders and kidnapings.
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