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Bay Area organizations, backed by high-powered corporate attorneys, are taking the lead in a growing movement that uses U.S. courts to go after abusers of human rights worldwide.

Reopening a bloody wound from two decades ago, a U.S. federal court in Florida on Tuesday found two retired Salvadoran generals responsible for torture, rape and other atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war.

A federal jury ordered two retired Salvadoran generals today to pay $54.6 million in damages to three civilians who were tortured by security forces during El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago.

El Salvador’s vice president said Wednesday that a U.S. jury had no right to order two former Salvadoran generals to pay $54.6 million in damages to torture victims of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war.

A federal jury in a civil lawsuit ruled yesterday that two retired Salvadoran generals now living in South Florida were responsible for acts of torture committed 20 years ago by troops under their command.

Two former generals have been found guilty by a US court of ignoring acts of brutality and torture in El Salvador 20 years ago.

A senior Honduran military officer who lived freely in Miami until his April arrest on immigration violations is responsible for the torture, killings and disappearances of Honduran civilians, alleges a lawsuit filed by two torture victims.

A Chicago woman took the stand in federal court Wednesday and faced the two retired Salvadoran generals she holds responsible for her torture in El Salvador more than two decades ago.