Survivors of US invasion form common front

Survivors of the US  invasion of Panama, on December 20, 1989, have created a common front to support the implementation of the report of the OAS Inter-American  Human Rights Commission   (IACHR) condemning the United States and recommending compensation to civilian and non-combatant victims.

 The announcement came at a Thursday, July 4 meeting at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Panama.

“The case José Isabel Salas Galindo and others vs the  United States is a call for unity and solidarity to support the implementation of the recommendations of the report.

and validate the struggle of the survivors,” said lawyer Gilma Camargo, who called on relatives of the dead, and disappeared and people with serious injuries to provide information to be included, while we plan the next hearing to follow up on the implementation process. “

“Frente Salas” will honor the memory of Dionisia Meneses Castrellón de Salas, killed by a missile, while cleaning rice at the door of her house in the city of Colon, on December 22, 1989 and her husband José Isabel Salas Galindo as referents of all the people who were attacked and those who are part of the legal struggle that earned  international condemnation against the United States.The creation of an invasion research institute and activities to commemorate the 30th  anniversary of the invasion was also confirmed.