El Salvador: War, Peace and Human Rights, 1980-1994

This second set of declassified U.S. records concerning El Salvador focuses on a series of human rights cases that became a subject of special attention by the United Nations Truth Commission. With the 1993 release of the commission's ground-breaking investigation, members of Congress appealed to President Clinton to declassify those records for public inspection. Many of those documents are included in this compilation.  Altogether, the collection, spanning  four presidencies, constitutes an extraordinarily rich account of a controversial and still highly relevant U.S. foreign policy issue.