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El Salvador: arrest warrant for ex-president for murder of Jesuits during civil war

2022-03-12T01:04:35.261Z


An arrest warrant has been issued against former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) for his alleged involvement during the war...


An arrest warrant has been issued against former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) for his alleged involvement during the civil war in the 1989 assassination by the army of six Jesuits and two of their collaborators, announced Friday the floor.

The Salvadoran General Prosecutor's Office has obtained that the murder of the Jesuits go to the stage of the instruction accompanied by "

pretrial detention for the accused (...) including ex-president Alfredo Cristiani and ex-deputy Rodolfo Parker

“, said the prosecution on its Twitter account.

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The former president, who is abroad, denies involvement in the killings and accused Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado in a statement of "

bad faith and blatant disregard for the truth

".

The truth is that I was never aware of the plans to commit these assassinations

”, assures Mr. Cristiani who was then General Commander of the army.

The soldiers guilty of the assassinations "

never informed me or asked me for authorization because they knew that I would never have given it

", he adds.

"

At the moment, there are no procedural guarantees in El Salvador (...) because the majority of magistrates, judges and prosecutors have been imposed by the presidential power and are completely subjugated to it

", he denounces.

Several arrest warrants

Arrest warrants have also been issued for Colonels Oscar Leon Linares, Nelson Lopez, Joaquin Arnoldo Cerna and Inocente Orlando Montano.

This last officer is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence in Spain for the murder of the religious.

For Generals Juan Rafael Bustillo and Juan Orlando Zepeda, as well as Colonels Manuel Antonio Rivas and Camilo Hernandez, alternative security measures to detention have been ordered due to their state of health.

Legal action is extinguished for General René Emilio Ponce and Colonel Francisco Elena Fuentes, who are deceased.

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The killing was committed on the night of November 15 to 16, 1989 on the campus of the Jesuit University Centroamericana (UCA) in San Salvador by the Atlacatl battalion (since dissolved) while the guerrillas launched an offensive on the capital San Salvador.

The Jesuit order - and the assassinated UCA rector Ignacio Ellacuría in particular - served as an intermediary between the government and the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) in order to begin peace negotiations.

In addition to the rector of the UCA, the Spanish clerics Ignacio Martin Baro, Segundo Montes, Amando Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, and the Salvadoran cleric Joaquin Lopez, as well as the Salvadoran Elba Ramos and the latter's daughter, Celina, were assassinated.

Source: lefigaro

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