El Salvador's Supreme Court halts investigation into murder of priests
OCTOBER 30, 202012:42 AMUPDATED A DAY AGO
By Reuters Staff
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - El Salvador’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that senior figures suspected of links to the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests, including a former president, should not be investigated, lawyers for both sides said.
The killing of the priests during the Central American country’s civil war was among the most notorious episodes during the conflict in which 75,000 people were killed and 8,000 went missing.
In April 2018, a court reopened an investigation into the killings and named in court documents six military officers and a former president, Alfredo Cristiani, as subjects of the investigation.
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Spain has also indicted 20 former Salvadoran army officers in connection with the killings, which took place when a group of soldiers from the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the campus of El Salvador’s Central American University.
One of the slain priests was Father Ignacio Ellacuria, who was a prominent critic of the U.S.-backed right-wing government of El Salvador and the rector at the university.
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