El Salvador’s Ex-Defense Minister Indicted in Killing of Six Jesuit Priests
May 30, 2011
MADRID — A Spanish judge on indicted 20 Salvadorans for the 1989 slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people during the Central American country’s civil war.
Judge Eloy Velasco charged the 20 men, who served as military officials in El Salvador, with terrorist killings and crimes against humanity.
He issued international arrest warrants to Spanish police and Interpol for the 20 Salvadorans, who include former Salvadoran Defense Minister Rafael Humberto Larios and Rene Emilio Ponce, an army general and former defense minister who died May 2.
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