E/CN.4/1993/62 page 31 residential area in which the parties to the dispute and the vendetta were living. The security forces performed their duty by bringing the situation under control and preventing its further escalation. The various State agencies concerned, together with popular and political organizations, endeavoured to contain the situation and avert any reactions by the feuding families or any attempt by extremists or fanatics to exploit those incidents in order to aggravate the situation or trigger a new explosion. The State and the security services are doing their utmost to thwart any attempt to harm members of the Christian community or prejudice the harmonious national unity of the Islamic and Christian components of the Egyptian people." El Salvador 27. In a communication addressed to the Government of El Salvador on 18 September 1992 the Special Rapporteur transmitted the following information: "According to the information received, Father José Ignacio Meza Rodezno, a priest from the Episcopal Church of El Salvador and members of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Churches, was arrested by the National Guard on 3 January 1992 at the Missionary Centre ’La Estación’ of the Cristo Rey congregation in Cojutepeque, Department of Cuscatlan. It has been alleged that Rev. Meza was accused of being a guerrilla commandant. It has been alleged further that lawyers from the Socorro Jurídico Luterano, officials from ONUSAF and members of the Episcopal Church of El Salvador had tried to see Rev. Meza but were reportedly prevented from doing so by the National Guard. Church workers from the Episcopal Church who were able to see Rev. Meza on 7 January are said to have stated that he had not been tortured physically but was subjected to psychological pressures. According to additional information received, members of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Churches received a death threat dated 6 January 1992 from a paramilitary group called the Secret National Salvation Army, stating that they "belong to the PCS (Salvadoran Communist Party) and during the entire war have actively collaborated in getting financial and logistic support, through the churches and other organizations, for the FMLN", which they qualified as an "act of treason to our country" which "cannot be left without revenge". The following persons were named in the death threat: - Santiago Flores Flora Carolina Fuentes Medardo Gomez Julio Cesar Grande Angel Ibarra Victoriano Jimeno Hugo Magaña Ignacio Meza Carlos Najera Roberto Palacios Luis Serrano."