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Wednesday 30
March 2011 |
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El
Salvador
Commemorates
Missing
Children´s
Day
San
Salvador
- El
Salvador
on
Tuesday
is
commemorating
Missing
Children''s
Day,
dedicated
to
children
who
disappeared
during
the
1980-1992
military
conflict.
President
Mauricio
Funes
will
lead the
official
ceremony
at the
International
Fair and
Convention
Center.
The
day´s
activities
include
one
minute
of
silence
in
schools;
the
issuing
of a
commemorative
stamp;
and a
university
essay
contest
award
ceremony.
UN
Goodwill
Ambassador
and
singer
Julietta
Venegas
will
perform
a
special
concert
day, the
Secretariat
of
Social
Inclusion
announced.
Ester
Alvarenga
informed
that the
Pro
Busqueda
Association,
which
she
directs,
has
documented
800
cases,
solving
363 of
them and
giving
victims
the
opportunity
to find
their
families.
The
government
created
a
National
Commission
to Find
Missing
Children
for that
same
purpose.
On
Monday,
a group
of
youngsters
who were
reunited
with
their
families
demanded
more a
effectiveness
on the
part of
the
government
commission,
and for
the army
to
apologize
for
forced
disappearances
during
the war.
The
issue of
missing
children,
many of
whom
were
murdered
in army
massacres,
is one
of the
open
wounds
in this
nation.
Last
year on
National
Missing
Children´s
Day, the
Salvadoran
government
apologized
for all
the
human
rights
violations
committed
during
the 12
years of
conflict..
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