El Salvador will cooperate in arrest of 17 former soldiers accused of killing priests
El Salvador will cooperate in arrest of 17 former soldiers accused of killing priests
Prosecutors say Salvadorian soldiers shot six Jesuit priests in 1989 to silence their criticism of rights abuses committed by US-backed army in country’s civil war
Reuters in San Salvador
Wednesday 6 January 2016 16.50 EST
El Salvador’s government has said it will cooperate in the arrest of 17 former soldiers accused of killing six Jesuit priests in one of the most notorious atrocities of the country’s bloody civil war.
The government made the announcement on Wednesday after a Spanish judge sent a new petition to international police agency Interpol on Monday, ordering the soldiers’ capture for the 1989 murders of the priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Five of the priests were Spanish and one was Salvadoran.
Salvadoran presidential spokesman Eugenio Chicas said once legal requirements were met, the government of the Central American nation could make the arrests. “The only path for our security forces to take is to proceed with the arrests, that is, there’s nothing to do but follow the law,” Chicas said in a statement to the media.
Among the officials wanted are Colonel Inocente Montano, a former deputy defense minister, who was arrested in the United States in 2011 for immigration fraud. US authorities said last April they would seek to extradite him to Spain.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/el-salvador-arrest-former-soldiers-killing-priests-civil-war
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141305750
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Murdered Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter.
El Salvador soldieirs on the street in El Salvador
Roses planted where the murdered fell, by the husband of Elba,
the housekeeper.
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Images of this atrocity, the aftermath, some graphic.