Ex-Salvadoran colonel gets US prison sentence

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Source: Associated Press

By BRIDGET MURPHY, Associated Press
Updated 3:28 pm, Tuesday, August 27, 2013

BOSTON (AP) — ... Inocente Orlando Montano will serve 21 months in a federal prison for immigration crimes, followed by a year of supervised release if U.S. government officials don't extradite him to Spain before then to stand trial for his alleged role in priest slayings known as the Jesuit massacre.

U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock meted out the penalty after a three-day sentencing hearing that included testimony implicating Montano in human rights abuses in El Salvador.

The 70-year-old Montano, who denies such abuses, was once his country's vice minister of public security. He had been living in a Boston suburb for about a decade before his 2011 arrest, making $14 an hour in a candy factory.

Montano admitted to lying on immigration forms, pleading guilty to three counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury. He also agreed not to contest deportation proceedings to return him to El Salvador after his prison term ...

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Ex-Salvadoran-colonel-gets-US-prison-sentence-4764319.php

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1. I just logged in to post this. nt

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2. "the 1989 slayings of six priests, their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter"

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/08/27/salvadoran-military-leader-gets-months/l9T7F834OEvY08t5ik3z1L/story.html

Ex-Salvadoran colonel gets US prison sentence
By BRIDGET MURPHY / Associated Press / August 27, 2013

BOSTON (AP) — Human rights advocates called it a step toward justice Tuesday when a federal judge in Boston sentenced a Salvadoran ex-colonel to prison on separate charges as Spain attempts to prosecute him for war crimes during his country’s civil conflict.

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In 1993, a United Nations commission named Montano as a member of El Salvador’s military high command who took part in a meeting to plot the slaying of a priest suspected of supporting rebels during the country’s civil war.

That meeting allegedly led to the 1989 slayings of six priests, their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter at a Jesuit university in El Salvador’s capital city.

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3. Wikipedia: Murder of UCA scholars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_UCA_scholars

Murder of UCA scholars

The massacre of six Jesuit scholars/priests, their housekeeper and her daughter took place during the Salvadoran Civil War on November 16, 1989, at the campus of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador.[1] Armed men in uniforms burst into their shared residence and gunned down everyone within.

Contents

1 Summary
1.1 Victims
2 Events
3 1991 trial
4 Spanish court reopens the case
5 Recognition
6 Chomsky on the slain scholars
7 References
8 External links

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5. People who loved them planted roses at the house where they were killed.

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Celina Meredith Ramos, 15, killed
because she saw the murder of her
mother, and the six Jesuit priests. [/center]

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4. Washington Post, November 17, 1989 ; Page A01

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/WPnov16.html

6 PRIESTS, 2 OTHERS SLAIN IN SAN SALVADOR

FIGHTING INTENSIFIES FOR CONTROL OF CAPITAL

By Lee Hockstader and Douglas Farah Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, November 17, 1989 ; Page A01

SAN SALVADOR, NOV. 16 -- SAN SALVADOR, NOV. 16 -- Six prominent Jesuit priests, including the rector and vice rector of El Salvador's most prestigious university, were killed early today along with two other persons at the house where they slept in the capital.

The priests were the most prominent victims of Salvadoran violence since 1980, when eight leftist politicians were gunned down by the military, three American nuns and a lay worker were shot dead and archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated as he said mass.

Today's execution-style slayings, which may have been preceded by torture, took place as the government armed forces unleashed heavy air and artillery attacks on strongholds established by leftist guerrillas in the massive offensive they launched last Saturday.

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Several of the victims had been shot in the head. Four of the bodies had been left face down in the front yard of the blood-spattered house. Several had chunks of flesh gouged out, and the brains of two of the victims shot in the head lay several feet from the bodies.

Slain priest Ignacio Ellacuria, 59, was rector of the Central American University and a widely respected leftist intellectual who was frequently denounced by the far right who claimed he was a spokesman for the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.

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