Call for Response to
El Salvador Killings
An item concerning this notice can be found on our June 23rd GenderNews page, Violence Against Transgenders.
From Cibeles Trans, web page of Identidad de Genero, Number Sixteen.
email: trans@mundivia.es
web page: http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/trans/
Six Murders of Prostitutes in El Salvador
EL SALVADOR, MAY, 30, 1998. The lesbic-homosexual association
"Entre Amigos", from El Salvador, has denounced the murder
of six prostitutes, five of them transgendered and one
born-woman, and the aggressions where three more
transgendered people were wounded, since February of this
year.
These facts recall those which happened in the last decade,
when members of the Squadrons of the Death and the Army
murdered some homosexuals in operations of so-called "social
cleaning".
The Association "Entre Amigos" requires that the authorities conduct a
serious investigation.
In solidarity with this demand, ten other associations from
El Salvador, among them the "Colectivo de Travestíes El
Nombre de la Rosa" (Transgender Collective The Name of the
Rose), ask for messages to the President of the Republic and
other democratic authorities of El Salvador.
The Association of Gender Identity offers this model of a
message. Please, excuse our English.
. . .
Dr Armando Calderon Sol
President of the Republic of El Salvador
presidente@casapres.gob.sv
Mister President,
I (or we) have heard, very sadly, of the murder of six people,
five of them transgendered and one born-woman, and the wounds
of other three transgendered people, since February of this
year, in El Salvador.
The possibility of these deeds being done again by the Squadrons of the Death or some personnel of the Army, and the attack on human rights that means, requires an urgent judicial investigation. As long as this is not done, it will darken the prestige of the democratic authorities of El Salvador.
I'm (or we are) sure you, as President of the Republic, will
watch over the human rights of all the citizens of El
Salvador; so, I (or we) send you this message, in the trust
you listen to it.
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