Please find attached excerpts of documents
which discuss the background, structure and membership of the death
squad known as 'Battalion 316'.
1)
Human Rights in Honduras: Central
America's 'Sideshow' (Americas Watch Report: Washington, D.C.)
May 1987, pp. 51-56 and 126-143.
2)
Honduras: Civilian Authority - Military
Power, Human Rights Violations in the 1980s (Amnesty
International: London, 1988) pp.16-19.
3)
Amnesty International Report 1989,
(Amnesty International, New York, 1989) pp. 132-134.
4)
Lindsey Grudson, "Political Violence
Sweeping Once-Quiet Honduras" The New York Times, August 27,
1989.