El Salvador is bringing three of the boys held answerable for the homicide 4 Dutch journalists in 1982 to trial, native media reported.
Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen and Hans ter Laag had been in El Salvador in 1982 to report for tv channel IKON on the bloody civil conflict there. They had been ambushed and killed by authorities troopers when making an attempt to enter an space of the nation held by guerrillas.
Two of the boys, former defence minister José Guillermo García and former police chief Francisco Antonio Morán had been arrested two years in the past. Morán lived within the US till 2016 however was then deported due to his function in human rights abuses in El Salvador.
The primary suspect within the case is former commander of the fourth infantry brigade colonel Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, who is assumed to have ordered the killings. He was by no means indited till now though his decisive half within the plot to kill the journalists turned clear in 1993 following an investigation by a UN truth-finding fee. He’s nonetheless awaiting extraditition from america.
For many years makes an attempt to deliver the perpetrators to justice had been blocked by the navy. An absence of sources and workers on the justice division of El Salvador additionally delayed efforts. Two of the boys concerned have since died.
Human rights organisation Fundación Comunicándonos y la Asociación Salvadoreña por los Derechos Humanos (ASDEHU) stated the court docket’s decsion was “a historic second within the seek for reality and justice”.
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