The World - News from Oct. 16, 1988

Uniformed men who said they were members of a Salvadoran army unit that has tortured and killed peasants ordered four peasants from their homes and shot them to death, relatives said. They said the men identified themselves as members of the First Brigade, whose commander was transferred earlier this year after peasants were tortured, slain and mutilated. “They said they were following orders,” said the widow of one 20-year-old victim. The relatives said the men came to their homes in the working-class suburb of Apopa, 12 miles north of San Salvador, the capital, Friday night.