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The Testimonies Of Survivors
It reflects on the treatment of testimonies as sources for historical investigation of atrocities, such as the case of internal purge in one of the organizations that formed the Salvadoran guerrilla, especially in the Para-central front between 1986 and 1991. The testimonies of Survivors who were accused of being infiltrators or agents of the "enemy" move us to the interrelation between memory, identity, silence and denial of these atrocities. The extreme experiences of these former guerrilla members are out of the memory of the FMLN, the State and civil society; These are covered under a denial
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