El Salvador receives Spanish extradition request for 13 ex-officers accused in 1989 killings

[Judi Lynn]

El Salvador receives Spanish extradition request for 13 ex-officers accused in 1989 killings
By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, January 12, 10:19 PM

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s government says it has received a formal request from Spain for the extradition of 13 former military officers accused in the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests and two other people.

A Spanish court wants to try a total of 15 former officers for the killings during the Central American country’s 1980-1992 civil war. Two of the 15 are in the United States.

Five of the priests slain were Spanish. The sixth was Salvadoran.

El Salvador’s Supreme Court refused to order the detention of the ex-officers last year because no formal extradition request had been received.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/el-salvador-receives-spanish-extradition-request-for-13-ex-officers-accused-in-1989-killings/2012/01/12/gIQA9vp0uP_story.html

My emphasis.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Concerning the soldiers who massacred these priests, and their housekeeper and her daughter:

Wikipedia:Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

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Since 1990, SOA Watch has sponsored an annual public demonstration of protest of SOA/WHISC at Ft. Benning. In 2005, the demonstration drew 19,000 people. The protests are timed to coincide with the anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, on November 1989, by graduates of the School of the Americas.[28] On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests (Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Joaquin López y López, Juan Ramon Moreno, and Amado López); their housekeeper, Elba Ramos; and her daughter, Celia Marisela Ramos, were murdered by the Salvadoran Military on the campus of the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, because they had been labeled as subversives by the government.[29] A United Nations panel concluded that 19 of the 27 killers were SOA graduates.[30]

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