MEXICO CITY - The Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador has abruptly closed its important human rights and legal aid office, which for years, and sometimes at great risk, denounced and investigated the most egregious atrocities surrounding that country's civil war. The surprise decision became known Tuesday, when employees showed up for work at the Tutela Legal office in the capital, San Salvador, and found padlocks on the doors and guards who denied them entry. Tutela Legal said its closure was ordered by Jose Luis Escobar Alas, the archbishop of San Salvador. Tutela Legal investigators traveled the country, even at the height of war, to find survivors and piece together witness accounts.
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