Case of slain Archbishop Romero reopened by judge in El Salvador

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Thu May 18, 2017 | 2:51pm EDT

A judge in El Salvador on Thursday reopened the nearly four-decade-old case of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero, an icon of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, and asked that prosecutors seek criminal charges against the main suspect.

The ruling, by Judge Ricardo Chicas, follows a decision last year by the country's constitutional court to repeal an amnesty law that prohibited criminal trials stemming from the Central American nation's bloody civil war from 1980 to 1992. The main suspect in the killing of Romero is Alvaro Rafael Saravia, a former soldier who had his case dismissed in 1993 as a result of the amnesty law.

Romero, then archbishop of San Salvador, was shot dead in 1980 by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel. The prelate had often denounced repression and poverty in his homilies.

The murder was one of the most shocking of the long conflict between a series of U.S.-backed governments and leftist rebels in which thousands were killed by military death squads.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-romero-idUSKCN18E2SO?il=0

[TEB]

1. School of americas

I went thru osut infantry in 84 regan was bastard

[gopiscrap]

2. exactly

I helped lead music for one of the November protests at the gates of the SOA the US should be ashamed of itself!

[TEB]

5. Soa

Was school for rapist psychopaths serial killers all sponsored by are government

[Judi Lynn]

3. The worst of the right-wing monsters head for the US as soon as possible

after assassinations, massacres, etc.

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If only they will do the right thing, finally, and lock this bloodthirsty, hate-filled piece of trash away for the rest of his life.

The last sermon of Archbishop Óscar Romero follows in this link.


The full text is below, but of all his words, the following are the ones that will resonate forever with us:

I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.” No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out at the cost of so much blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.

More:
http://www.latinorebels.com/2013/03/24/archbishop-oscar-romeros-last-sermon-march-14-1980/

[FairWinds]

4. As the posters above well know . .

the Reagan admin was involved in that assassination.

A bunch of that crowd should be in orange jump suits too.

Veterans For Peace

[gopiscrap]

6. Romero was killed in March of 1980

Reagan didn't take office til Jan 1981, but I am sure his henchman were knee deep in the planning of this assassination.

[FairWinds]

7. Thanks for the correction . .

[gopiscrap]

8. not a problem