Olimpia's words:  "With a gun in his hand he made me be his."


4
In the following months Olimpia accepted Zuniga's domination.  She continued to wash for him on her days off.  She accepted taunts, threats, and beatings from him.  He broke her identity card in pieces and forced her to eat the pieces.  He dragged her by the hair about a public restaurant.  He pummeled her face, causing a blood clot to form in one eye;  she thought that she had lost the eye.  Olimpia became nervous, preoccupied, and depressed, ate little, and became thin and frail.  She wanted to escape her tormentor but saw no way of doing so.


5
Central to the situation was the fact that Zuniga was asergeant in the Fuerza Armada, the Armed Force which is the Salvadoran military.  Zuniga used his gun in forcing Olimpia to submit the first time.  On another occasion Zuniga held two hand grenades against her forehead.  On another occasion he threatened to bomb her.  When he referred to her husband, Zuniga said that if he returned Zuniga himself would cut him apart, kill both Olimpia and her husband and say that they were both subversives.  Zuniga told Olimpia that it was his job to kill subversives.


6
Zuniga said to Olimpia that if she ever told on him he would have her tongue cut off, her nails removed one by one, her eyes pulled out, and she would then be killed.  As Olimpia recalls