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1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador

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took advantage of an initial war context to perpetrate violations of human rights, with the aggravating character of xenophobia. Five of the murdered scholars were Spanish citizens. The propaganda against them, that prepared the context for the murder, called them leftist neoimperialists from Spain, who were in El Salvador to reinstate colonialism. Those found guilty face sentences that total 2700 years in prison.
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of El Salvador). However, this new testimony opened up the investigation into former president Cristiani as well. Evidence made available for journalists included handwritten notes taken during a meeting of the Salvadoran Military High Command at which the massacre was allegedly planned, and both the
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to investigate the murders in what came to be known as the Moakley Commission. Moakley's findings revealed that the murders had been ordered at the highest levels of the Salvadoran military and led to a reduction in military aid by the United States to El Salvador and the creation of a United Nations
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were shot and killed by Private Grimaldi. Fathers Amando López and Moreno were killed by Deputy Sergeant Antonio Ramiro Avalos Vargas. The soldiers later discovered Father Joaquín López y López in the residence and killed him as well. Deputy Sergeant Tomás Zarpate Castillo shot housekeeper Julia Elba
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The Salvadoran army considered the Pastoral Centre of UCA El Salvador to be a "refuge of subversives". Colonel Juan Orlando Zepeda, Vice-Minister for Defence, had publicly accused UCA El Salvador of being the center of operations for FMLN terrorists. Colonel Inocente Montano, Vice-Minister for Public
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by a legislature dominated by anti-guerilla and pro-military politicians. It was enacted to promote social and political reconciliation in the aftermath of the civil war, but its support came from the political factions most closely allied with the right-wing armed groups identified by the report as
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On 30 May 2011, the court ruled against twenty members of the Salvadoran military finding them guilty of murder, terrorism, and crimes against humanity. It ordered their immediate arrest. President Cristiaini was not included in the ruling. According to the substantiation of the ruling, the accused
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During the course of this judicial process, an unidentified witness confessed to his own participation in the massacre and implicated the High Command of the Salvadoran Military and Cristiani. Judge Velasco's resolution on the demand initially included investigations on the 14 implicated members of
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The ruling of the Spanish court specifies that the Jesuits were murdered for their efforts to end the Salvadoran civil war peacefully. The planning of the murder started when peace negotiations between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN had broken down in 1988. The leadership of the Salvadoran
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In May 2017, the Jesuit community in El Salvador asked the Ministry of Justice and Public Security to commute the sentence of Benavides, who had served four years of his thirty-year sentence. They said that he had admitted and regretted his actions and that he posed no danger. Jose Maria Tojeira,
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Nine members of the Salvadoran military were put on trial. Only Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy René Mendoza were convicted. The others were either absolved or found guilty on lesser charges. Benavides and Mendoza were sentenced to thirty years in prison. Both were released from
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The operation against the Jesuits involved cooperation between several military institutions. It consisted of a psychological campaign to delegitimize the Jesuits in the media, accusing them of conspiracy and cooperation with FMLN; military raids against the university, and the Jesuits' home, in
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The soldiers first tried to force their way into the Jesuits' residence, until the priests opened the doors to them. After ordering the priests to lie face-down in the back garden, the soldiers searched the residence. Lieutenant Guerra then gave the order to kill the priests. Fathers Ellacuría,
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that one of the twenty Salvadoran military officers indicted in a Spanish court, "Inocente Orlando Montano Morales", a former government vice minister of public safety, was living in Massachusetts for a decade using his real name. He was subsequently charged with immigration fraud and perjury,
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catalogued a series of similar crimes that had gone unpunished and warned that "What's different this time is America's horrified impatience". It warned that the U.S. Senate would end U.S. aid if the government of El Salvador "cannot halt and will not punish death squads".
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Most of these scholars are also credited for lasting contributions to the fields of philosophy, theology and liberation theology (Ellacuría), psychology (Martin-Baró), and social anthropology/migration studies (Montes). Some of their scholarship has been published by
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military's High Command and the country's Executive were probably aware of, if not directly involved in, these planning meetings. Declassified CIA documents later indicated that for many years the CIA knew of the Salvadoran government's plans to murder the Jesuits.
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resulting in a plea deal with U.S. authorities, before being extradited to Spain in November 2017 to stand trial for his participation of the assassination of Father Ignacio Ellacuría. On May 9, 2019, the Office of the Prosecutor of the National Court in
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The U.S. government, which had long provided military aid to the government, called on President Cristiani to initiate "the fullest inquiry and certainly a rapid one". It condemned the murders "in the strongest possible terms". Senator
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Rose Garden at UCA, El Salvador. The place where Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Amando López, Joaquín López y López, Elba Ramos y Celina Ramos, were killed on 16 November 1989, by a military
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recommended a prison term of 150 years to be served upon Inocente Montano. The trial of Montano Morales began on June 8, 2020. In September 2020, Morales was convicted of the priests' murders and sentenced to 133 years in prison.
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Note: All descriptions of events are taken from the Truth Commission's report and the summary of accusations admitted by the Spanish court against the members of the Salvadoran military who were sentenced for the crime.
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had played a pivotal role. Many of the armed forces identified the Jesuit priests with the rebels, because of their special concern for those Salvadorians who were poorest and thus most affected by the war.
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The soldiers removed a small suitcase containing photographs, documents, and $ 5,000. They then directed machine gun fire at the façade of the residence, as well as rockets and grenades. They left a
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military were convinced that they could win the war against the FMLN militarily. They interpreted Ignacio Ellacuría's efforts for peace negotiations as an inconvenience that had to be eliminated.
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The murders attracted international attention and increased international pressure for a cease-fire. It is recognized as a turning point that led toward a negotiated settlement to the war.
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the Salvadoran Military, excluding the former Salvadoran president, but including the Military High Command represented by General (Colonel, at that time) René Emilio Ponce (who then was
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Security, said that the Jesuits were "fully identified with subversive movements." In negotiations for a peaceful solution to the conflict, Jesuit priest and
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Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina Mariceth Ramos; both women were shot again by Private José Alberto Sierra Ascencio, confirming their deaths.
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found the Amnesty Law unconstitutional, citing international human rights law. Benavides returned to prison a few weeks later to serve his sentence.
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of San Francisco objected to the use of that characterization "without qualification or nuance". He offered the paper the words of Archbishop
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Pugh, Jeffrey (1 January 2009). "The Structure of Negotiation: Lessons from El Salvador for Contemporary Conflict Resolution".
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head of UCA's Human Rights Institute, called him a "scapegoat" for those who ordered the murders and who remained unpunished.
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The murders have inspired activism in the United States against U.S. imperialism from intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky.
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responsible for most wartime violations of human rights. The trial's outcome was confirmed by the report presented by the
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and 14 members of the Salvadoran military, alleging their direct responsibility for the 1989 massacre. Judge
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community in Morazán, settled by repatriated refugees, the subject of Segundo Montes' research and activism
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order to map and plan the operation; and finally the massacre, perpetrated by the Atlácatl Battalion.
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The Jesuits were advocates of a negotiated settlement between the government of El Salvador and the
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Rose Garden at UCA, El Salvador. The place where the victims were killed on 16 November 1989
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cardboard sign that read "FMLN executed those who informed on it. Victory or death, FMLN".
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and two others, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of
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described the murdered priests as "leftist intellectuals" in March 1991, Archbishop
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and others, but much of their material still remains uncategorized or unpublished.
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the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights at Boston College
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All but Celina Ramos were employees of UCA El Salvador. Another Jesuit resident,
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of El Salvador announced plans to seek the canonization of the UCA martyrs.
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In August 2011, it was discovered by a human rights organization,
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Several academic chairs and research centers are named for them:
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Juzgado de instrucción número 6, Audiencia Nacional, Madrid
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the Ignacio Martín-Baró prizes at the University of Chicago
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prison on 1 April 1993 following passage of the Salvadoran
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Systematic Theology: Perspectives from Liberation Theology
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Sobrino, Jon; Ellacuría, Ignacio, eds. (1996). "Preface".
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implicated in some of the most infamous incidents of the
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Salvadoran Civil War
Football War
1972 coup attempt
Political tensions
1979 coup d'état
Offensive of 1981
Ilopango Airport
Offensive of 1982
Offensive of 1989
Lolotique shootdown
Sumpul
Romero's funeral
Missionaries
El Mozote
Santa Rita
El Calabozo
Zona Rosa
Jesuits
Peace Accords
Truth Commission

Salvadoran Civil War
Salvadoran Army
Jesuits
Central American University
San Salvador

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