
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, October 26, 1993                   TAG: 9310260192
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR                                LENGTH: Short

EX-GUERRILLA LEADER KILLED IN EL SALVADOR

Amid a surge in politically tinged violence, a prominent member of El Salvador's former guerrilla front was shot to death Monday as he took his child to a day-care center.

The murder of Francisco Velis comes as U.N. peacekeepers denounced an alarming resurgence in rightist death squad-style killings 10 months after the end of El Salvador's brutal civil war. Such murders are on the rise and are not being adequately investigated, the United Nations said in a report.

The threat of escalating political violence endangers El Salvador's shaky peace process and could taint upcoming national elections, analysts, politicians and church officials say.

Velis, 37, was a congressional candidate, representing the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the former guerrilla army turned political party. He was also a member of the FMLN national governing council. - Los Angeles Times

Keywords:
FATALITY

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