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> 25th Anniversary of El Salvador Jesuit Murders > > Declassified Documents from 1989 Show Initial U.S. Unwillingness to > Consider Salvadoran Military's Responsibility > > As Evidence Grew, State Department Advised U.S. Ambassador: "Please Hold > This Information Very Closely" > > Spanish Court Moves Closer to Prosecution of Surviving Defendants > > National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 492 > Posted November 16, 2014 > > Edited by Kate Doyle > Research Assistance by Alexandra Smith > > For more information contact: > Kate Doyle 202/994-7000, [email protected] > > > Washington, DC, November 16, 2014 -- Twenty five years have passed since > the horrifying murders in El Salvador of six Jesuit priests, their > housekeeper and her daughter, during a rampage by Salvadoran security > forces in the early morning hours of November 16, 1989, on the campus of > the University of Central America (UCA) in the country's capital. It has > been twenty five years of grieving by the victims' families and the Jesuit > community; and twenty five years of waiting for justice to identify and > prosecute the killers. > > The National Security Archive has spent the past quarter of a century > collecting declassified US documents on El Salvador, including the Jesuit > murders. Hundreds of those documents have been entered as evidence in a > criminal human rights case against 20 alleged perpetrators currently under > investigation in Spain. Thousands more are published in two Digital > National Security Archive collections. Today, in commemoration of the > deaths, the Archive posts ten documents written by US officials on the day > of the murders and during the week that followed. > > Check out today's posting at the National Security Archive - > http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB492/ > > Find us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/NSArchive > > Unredacted, the Archive blog - http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/ > > > ________________________________________________________ > THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research > institute and library located at The George Washington University in > Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents > acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public > charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is > supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and > individuals. > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
