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5 October 1990, 10:15 AM - The Independent Human Rights Commission
We are introduced to Jorge, who will tell us about the history and work of the Commission.
"I am pleased that you are here, because your visit demonstrates the authority that our group has internationally.
"We began on 1 April 1978 at the initiative of professors and students at the National University who raised concerns about the rise in human rights violations at that time. In twelve years we have suffered two disappearances, three assassinations, and three captures. But we still continue despite the oppression of the armed forces.
"We are members of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIHD) and of the Coordination of Human Rights in Central America (CODEHUCA). Our organization has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and this year received a prize from the non-governmental organization 2001 in Sweden. Also the Lutheran Church has extended to us the symbol of human rights.
