CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1984
Page 8
Student leaves work,family and country Threat of death forced Salvadoran to flee to U.S.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Saul Antonio Solorzano was returning from church and unlocking the front door of his El Salvador home when gunshots suddenly rang out from a station wagon that had pulled up to his house.
Although the right-wing death squad failed to kill Solorzan who September day in 1980, it succeeded in killing him, his country, his family and his work.
"It was my only choice," Solzaran said Saturday at a Lawrence church. He knew his assailants were death-mattacks attacked in the same way — from station wagons and wearing civilian clothes.
SOLORZANO BECAME a target of the right-wing death squads because of his involvement in a Christian problem in El Salvador, he said.
Like many young people in El Salvador, Solorzano, 21, could not sit idly and watch his people suffer the tragedies of civil war.
In his free time, Solorzano, a middle-class student from San Salvador, taught poor children to read and write in a country in which 33 percent of the population is illiterate.
The Salvadoran Christian group he joined in 1978, when he was 16, also aided priests in the search for people who had "disappeared."
Because of his activities, Solorzano is not safe in his own country.
THE DAY AFTER the attempt on his life, Solorzano said, soldiers came to his parents' home searching for him.
But he had already gone into hiding. Until he came to the United States in January 1881, Solorzano said, he hid in churches and with family friends.
Solorzano joined about 55 people Saturday night at University Lutheran Church, 2104 W. 15th St., to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Salvador Armeni a.k.a. SOLORZANO who was killed while celebrating Mass. Solorzano addressed the group through an interpreter.
Although the right-wing death squads are not sponsored by the government, he said, the officers who
control the army also control the death squads.
The members of the death squads are soldiers, national guardmen and rural or private police acting out of uniform, he said.
Solorzano now lives in Philadelphia and travels around the country explaining the problems in El Salvador
The conditions plaguing El Salvador today include high unemployment and underemployment, and a lack of medical services, he said.
"The they are looking for all the people in the Christian community and populist organizations," he said of the death squads.
"The problem is not who is going to be president," he said, "but how we are going to resolve the problems that are at the roots of the crisis."
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