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February 28, 2022

El Salvador Ex-President Alfredo Crisitiani Charged in 1989 Jesuit Priest Massacre
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In El Salvador, prosecutors have charged former President Alfredo
Cristiani and former military officers in the 1989 massacre of six
Jesuit priests carried out by a U.S.-trained death squad. The priests'
housekeeper and her daughter were also killed. An amnesty that
previously shielded those involved in the massacre was lifted in 2016,
but so far only one man, Salvadoran Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano,
has been held responsible. He was convicted by a Spanish court in 2020
and sentenced to 133 years for the killings of five of the priests, who
were from Spain.


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