'I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests'

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‘I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador’s priests’​

In November 1989 Salvadoran soldiers dragged six Jesuit priests from their beds and murdered them along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.

The Salvadoran government tried to blame the killings on left-wing rebels, but their version was contradicted by the evidence of one woman, Lucia Cerna, who was hiding near the site of the murders.

See at: 'I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests' - BBC News

More reading:

Opinion | El Salvador’s Endless Ordeal (Published 2019)

The 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests caused an outcry that led to the end of the civil war. But the effects of that war are still sending migrants north.

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Unfortunately, some of these kinds of things happen today.

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