The World - News from Jan. 6, 1988

Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte said the government has captured one man and is seeking three others in the October slaying of human rights activist Herbert Ernesto Anaya. Duarte said that Jorge Alberto Miranda Arevalo, 19, confessed to participating in the slaying along with three other members of the People’s Revolutionary Army, considered the most hard-line group among rebels battling the government. Colleagues of both the victim and the suspect disputed the government’s report that Miranda was involved. Miguel Angel Montenegro, a member of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission that Anaya had led, said he believed the confession was obtained by torture.