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Title
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Disappearance of Antonio Hándal
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Description
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This collection consists of documents relating to the disappearance of Antonio Abdala Hándal (b.1944), brother of Palestinian-Salvadoran revolutionary leader, Schafik Hándal. Antonio Hándal was an architect who served in the logistics department of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion (FAL) during the Salvadoran uprising that began in 1979 against the country's dictatorship. In 1980 he was captured and disappeared by the Salvadoran National Guard. A subsequent campaign was mounted by the Hándal family and the Salvadoran Communist Party to determine his whereabouts and secure his release. Tragically, he was never found.
The documents and photographs in the collection are held in the Instituto Schafik Hándal in San Salvador, El Salvador. They consist of letters and communications from various family members and international organisations demanding Antonio's release, as well as photographs of the Monumento a la Memoria y a la Verdad in San Salvador where Antonio's name is listed among the 30,000 Salvadorans disappeared and murdered during the war of 1979-1992. Descriptions of the documents are provided in both English and Spanish.
Communist Party of El Salvador statement, 1980 Spanish
Communist Party of El Salvador statement, 1980 Spanish
Letter from the College of Architects of El Salvador, 1980 Spanish
Letters to Proceso Magazine, 1981 Spanish
Letter from Giamile de Hándal to Álvaro Magaña, 1981 Spanish
Notarial statement on the capture of Antonio Hándal, 1981 Spanish
Letter from the OAS to the Board of Directors of the College of Architects of Costa Rica, 1981 Spanish
Information letter from the government of El Salvador to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS, 1981 Spanish
Letter from the OAS to Mrs. María del Socorro Aguilar de Hándal, 1981 Spanish
Notarial declaration from the Euralas Art Gallery, 1981 Spanish
Letter from the Apostolocio Nuncio to Mrs. Giamile de Hándal, 1982 Spanish
Interview with General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 1983 Spanish
Letter from Farid Hándal to the Working Group on Disappeared Persons, 1983 Spanish
Letter from President José Napoleón Duarte to Mrs. Giamile de Hándal, 1984 Spanish
Letter from Giamile Hándal to President José Napoleón Duarte, 1984 Spanish
Report of Ambassador Roberto Castellanos Figueroa, in favor of the freedom of Antonio Ábdala Hándal, Managua, Nicaragua, 1981-1982. Spanish
Paid field demanding the freedom of Antonio Ábdala Hándal Hándal (brother of Schafik Hándal), 1980. Spanish
Monument to Memory and Truth, San Salvador, El Salvador, December 6, 2003.
El Diario de Hoy Newspaper, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1980. Spanish
The newspaper La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1980. Spanish