Phil Neff

A new set of 94 declassified U.S. government documents have been added to the Unfinished Sentences FOIA Library. Several documents are the first to be released from a previously unknown cache of intelligence records, which is now sought for full declassification.

Recent days have brought new developments in the University of Washington’s long-standing lawsuit against the US Department of Defense for access to records pertaining to wartime atrocities in El Salvador.

After more than two years of discussions, the University of Washington settled its 2015 Freedom of Information lawsuit brought by the UW Center for Human Rights against the CIA. The lawsuit resulted in the declassification of 139 documents.

Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court cites CIA cable published by Unfinished Sentences in ruling ordering new investigation of forced disappearance of children during 1982 military operation.

Decades after the infamous massacre of El Mozote, the fight for accountability continues. The massacre of El Mozote was committed during “Operation Rescue,” a counterinsurgency operation spearheaded by the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion in December of 1981 in the department of Morazán in northeastern El Salvador. Over several days, the Salvadoran military killed at least 978

The first group of witnesses in the trial for the El Mozote massacre has finished. Of 17 original witnesses, 10 have now reaffirmed statements they made before a judge in San Francisco Gotera during the early 1990s. Despite the horror of their stories, lawyers for the accused military officials continue to paint the victims as guerrillas. But the power of their testimonies says, “hush, hush, listen.”

National and international organizations support the victims of the massacre of El Mozote and surrounding communities, call for a swift and fair trial

Unfinished Sentences and the UW Center for Human Rights accompanied a recent delegation to El Salvador, which resulted in a commitment by the government of El Salvador to form a national commission to search for people disappeared during the armed conflict.

Representatives call for declassification of U.S. files on human rights abuses during the Salvadoran civil war.