Jesuit murders event
also: six Jesuit priests... shot to death, murders
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El Salvadorcountry · 8Eric Bucklandperson · 3Lucia Barilla De Cernaperson · 2University of Central Americaorganization · 2Carlos Avilesperson · 2Cesar Vilman Joya Martinezperson · 1Charles Byrneperson · 1U.S. Special Forces Green Beretsorganization · 1
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▶ 9:03
Martinez went public in the U.S., one of the most shocking atrocities of the war happened. And that's when six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America in San Salvador was shot to death in cold blood at their campus residence, al…
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De Cerna said she saw five armed men in uniforms carrying out the murders. The Salvadorian military, whom the Roman Catholic order had often criticized for human rights violations, were the immediate and logical suspects. There was an extra…
▶ 10:01
in the U.S. and internationally. There was a special congressional task force referred to, the one that we were just referring to. Two months later, nine officers and enlisted men were arrested. A platoon from that death squad battalion, se…
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supervised by U.S. Special Forces Green Berets in El Salvador, almost like that was a training mission for them. Almost two years passed before any of those arrested were convicted of the crime. They were all low-level officers with the hig…
▶ 11:24
After the convictions, officials of the Bush administration appeared to be trying to thwart an investigation and aid into the cover-up and the tactics used. So here's some of the things that they did to try to thwart an investigation. They …
▶ 11:54
They refused on grounds of national security to provide a Salvadorian court with classified documents. This is the U.S. doing this, that dealt with the case, withholding on the same ground substance material from journalists via FOIAs. Thre…
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who had been stationed in El Salvador, who had learned of the military's culpability in the murders from a Salvadorian Colonel Carlos Aviles. Then they imposed a series of conditions on Buckland's questioning that served to conceal most of …
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such horrendous interrogation that he underwent a nervous breakdown. Five, so basically the U.S. government destroyed a military officer who not only they commanded to train people to assassinate their own citizens, but then once they got c…
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had revealed to Buckland, which caused Avila much grief. Poor baby. Father Charles Byrne, the vice rector of the Jesuit University, declared in 1991 that the, quote, the Americans were helping to protect the Salvadorian army, high command a…