Vanished Children, Concern in Salvador
El Salvador Human Rights attorney Beatrice de Carrillo announced Friday she would open a file on children who have disappeared and would personally direct the investigations.

"Thousands of children have disappeared due to various causes and authorities have shown no inclination to solve such a delicate situation. This attorney's office will work diligently on this very sensitive matter to the final consequences," said the official.

Beyond those cases of children who disappeared during the war, De Carrillo committed to investigate the trade in children beyond national frontiers, and criticized the position of Foreign Relations Minister Francisco Lainez, whose reaction to the controversial "Serrano" case did not convince the affected families.

This huge scandal was sparked by the disappearance of two little girls, aged three and seven, without a single trace, which was even brought to the Inter-American Human Rights Court.