Document #1089808
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
The U.S. Department of State report on El
Salvador for 1985 does not discuss control of human rights
organizations by the FMLN. The U.S. Department of State report on
El Salvador for 1988 contains this claim. The IRBDC has not yet
received the Human Rights Watch critique of the U.S. Department of
State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988.
However, a representative of the organization maintains that the
Human Rights Watch is confident that the information provided by
"Tutela Legal" is well documented, and all cases and numbers that
it quotes have been investigated by the organization. [ Human
Rights Watch (New York), 22 August 1989.] Tutela Legal is one of
the organizations mentioned on page 564 of the report. We are
unable, at this time, to add further information in respect of the
question.