Edwin relates how his family was persecuted by the National Guard, which led him and his younger brother to leave their school and home.
- Interviewee:
- Edwin
- Places:
- San Salvador
Transcription
I was still in eighth grade and my parents had gone out to work. They worked the land and we had a piece of it on the countryside that they were tilling. At night, they wanted to get us out of the house. They knocked on the doors. I was staying with a younger brother. We had both stayed here so we could go to school. The others, the second and first, were going to school in San Salvador. The others worked on the land. Thank God they had said they didn’t want to study anymore and they were fully dedicated to the movement. So only the last couple of us remained, myself and the younger brother. We were persecuted and had to leave school because the Guard would come to the school door and wait for us. At that time, we also had to leave our house. I remember well that was 1979. It was September 13, and we had planned a counteractivity to protest our lack of independence. Maybe by then the Guard already knew they would come close down our activity. They came to stop us and forced us to leave. They said if we hadn’t left they would have killed us, because that was the time they began to assassinate people.