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El Salvador Ex-President and Others Face Charges for 1989 Murders of Jesuits

Johan Bergström-Allen/Archbishop Romero TrustA memorial to Father Ignacio Ellacuría and his companions at the site of their killings at the Central American University in San Salvador.

On Nov. 16, 1989 a unit of the Salvadoran Army dragged six Jesuits from their beds on the campus of the Central American University and shot them.