6 Wednesdav. December 6, 1989 / University Daily Kansan Kansans return with tales of horrors By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer many U.S. citizens may find it difficult to imagine a life haunted by the specter of government persecution and deprived of civil liberties, but two Kansans have experienced it firsthand in El Salvador. Paul Rasor, a professor of law at Washburn University, returned last month from the nation's capital, San Salvador, after being part of a nine-person delegation that investigated the two bombings. On Oct. 31, the headquarters of the Fenastra labor union, an organization that had been outspoken in its criticism of the government, and the offices of the Mothers of the Disappeared, an organization that monitored the lives of people who were bombed, he said. Nine people were killed and 40 injured. Rasor arrived in the country on Nov. 9 and, two days later, was caught in the middle of a leftist rebel offensive. Men trace life in El Salvador He said that there was no doubt in his mind that the government was responsible for the bombing incidents. Rasor said he suspected the government also was responsible for the Nov. 16 murders of six Jesuit priests He said he had been working with the Going Home Campaign, an organization that helped El Salvador refugees who had fled to neighboring Honduras to return home, 11 I was treated badly. I was threatened with death and and two others in the capital. "I absolutely believe it," he said. "There is no doubt about it. It was done in death-squad style. There was a curfew in effect, and one but the other could have gotten in, and one else could have gotten in, and there had been earlier threats." Tim Lohrentz Newton, Kan. Another Kansan missed the rebel offensive but had a harrowing experience of his own. Tim Lohrentz, a peace worker from Newton, arrived in Honduras' Chalatenango province on Oct. 25 and was deported Nov. 2 after being arrested and interrogated by the government. when he was arrested. "I was treated badly." Lobrentz said. "I was threatened with death and psychologically tortured." He described the psychological abuse as being interrogated for 10 minutes by a man with a black hood over his face and being held prisoner by him. He also said he able to hear screams and beatings in other parts of the building. Lohrentz said three other members of his group also were arrested and held for 30 hours. He said his organization traveled with 1,300 refugees on buses from Honduras to El Salvador, recorded KANSAN Graphic human rights violations and helped people build houses. Lohrentz said the siege mentality of government troops made them suspect anyone who was poor or was a refugee as a possible rebel or sympathizer. He said the trip was his fifth to El Salvador, and on previous visits he had talked with church officials and U.S. Embassy workers and had talked extensively with rebel commanders. Lohrentz said he was afraid that many of the people he had worked with or talked to in El Salvador were imprisoned or dead and that he had not been able to contact any of them. Andrew Johnson, president of the KU chapter of Amnesty International, said it was common for people to be arrested or abducted by the Salvadoran military, but U.S. citizens usually were left alone. He said he had come across several Amnesty International newsletters that reported people being detained or executed without due process and that the KU chapter usually restricted its activities concerning El Salvador to letter-writing campaigns to free such people. Rasor said he had observed a trend within the Salvadoran government of respring to deportation of human-rights monitors and relief workers to silence opposition. Resign Continued from p. 1 The house arrests are intended to keep the former Politburo members from fleeing the country. Schalck-Golodkowski, the former top official for trade with the West, fled after allegations that he was involved in huge weapons deals. "All former Politburo members who after Oct. 19 were no longer members of the Politburo and who are still in Wandltz" were under house arrest, ADN said. Honecker lost his job in a major power reshuffle on Oct. 18. His successor, Egon Krenz, resigned on Sunday. There were growing reports of bands of angry citizens surging toward local headquarters of the secret police to prevent the destruction of documents that could be used in criminal trials. About 2,000 East Germans tried to force their way into the secret police headquarters in Suhl, and a delegation of the angry citizens eventually was allowed inside, ADN said. It quoted the local secret police chief, Gerhard Lange, as saying documents there had already been destroyed. 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