[Peace-discuss] Fwd: PBS "Justice and the Generals" Thur 2AM!!!

[pfmueth at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu]

All,
contact WILL and tell them to run this in reasonable hour.

currently they seem to have this scheduled only at 2AM Feb 22th. .. .
It's 1 1/2 hours long if you want to record. . .




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>Forwarded by the InterReligious Task Force on Central America 
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>Please let us know if you can record this documentary and give us a 
>copy to use for educational purposes.
>thanks.
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>Reserve this coming Thursday night at 10 pm to view  the excellent 
>upcoming PBS showing of "Justice and the Generals," a documentary 
>that explores military impunity for gross human rights abuses in El 
>Salvador. The program focus is a new lawsuit against two Salvadoran 
>generals - now living in Florida - for murder, rape, torture, and 
>disappearances. The plaintiffs include four Salvadoran torture 
>survivors and the families of the four U.S. church women raped and 
>murdered in El Salvador in December 1980.
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>In Cleveland, "Justice and the Generals" will be airing
>Thursday, February 21,
>Channel 25 (WVIZ-PBS), 10:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m.
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>PBS stations throughout the country (with the  exception of Florida) 
>will be showing it if they choose to do so. Check local  schedules 
>on the PBS web page at www.pbs.org (see A-Z on the web page * top 
>line *, then check Justice and the Generals, then check broadcast 
>schedule *lower right corner*).
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>Justice and the Generals was recently previewed by Salvadoran 
>refugees and other members of the Latin America solidarity community 
>in the US; they have urged that it be seen as widely as possible.
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>PBS Description of Justice and the Generals:
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>"In late 1980, the bodies of four American women were  exhumed from 
>a crude grave in war-torn El Salvador. The women -- three  Catholic 
>nuns and a lay missionary -- had been abducted, raped, and murdered. 
>An investigation led
>to the trial and imprisonment of five Salvadoran National Guardsmen 
>convicted of committing the crime. But who was behind the murders? 
>The families of the victims believed the orders to kill came from 
>high up in the military, but after 20 years of
>pressuring the State Department for information, they still had no 
>direct evidence of higher orders. They did, however, have enough 
>circumstantial evidence to take two Salvadoran generals to trial. In 
>a second case, a group of Salvadoran torture survivors are set to 
>bring the same two generals to court as well. In an unusual legal 
>move, both cases are being decided not in
>international war tribunals, but in American civil court.
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>These historic cases -- which not only herald a radical change in 
>the way human rights violations are redressed but also provide
>disturbing insight into the political forces that can shield the 
>military from any legal responsibility -- are the subject of JUSTICE 
>& THE GENERALS. The 90-minute documentary, presented by 
>Thirteen/WNET New York, premieres Thursday,February 21 at 10 p.m. 
>(ET) on PBS (check local listings <about_sched.html>).
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>In exploring these two historic cases, JUSTICE & THE GENERALS offers 
>unique insight into a new chapter in international human rights law, 
>an important step forward in the campaign to bring military 
>commanders to justice for crimes committed within their ranks. At 
>the same time, as it follows efforts to hold human rights abusers 
>accountable, JUSTICE & THE GENERALS also maps the confusion, 
>barbarism, and, ultimately, the tragic heart of a conflict whose 
>wounds, two decades later, are far from healed.
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>JUSTICE & THE GENERALS is a production of Gail Pellett Productions, 
>Inc. in association with Thirteen/WNET New York. Gail Pellett is 
>producer, director, and narrator. Alison Amron is editor and Sidney 
>Beaumont is associate
>producer. For Thirteen, Stephen Segaller is executive producer and 
>Miriam Reinharth is supervising producer. Major funding for JUSTICE 
>& THE GENERALS was provided by The Florence and John Schumann 
>Foundation. Additional funding was provided by The Jacob Burns 
>Foundation and The Soros Documentary Fund. "


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