Salvador court orders arrests in Dutch journalist killings

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Source: Associatd Press

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A Salvadoran judge has ordered the provisional arrest of several retired high-ranking members of the armed forces accused of having participated in the killings of four Dutch journalists in 1982 while they were covering the Central American nation’s civil war. Among those facing arrest orders are former defense minister Gen. José Guillermo García and Col. Francisco Antonio Morán, former director of the now-defunct treasury police, according to the judge’s ruling, which was seen by The Associated Press. Neither the National Civil Police, which is charged with carrying out the court order, nor the Public Ministry have confirmed the arrest warrants or whether they have been carried out.

Read more: https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/16/salvador-court-orders-arrests-in-dutch-journalist-killings/

[IbogaProject]

1. Likely trained by the 'School of the Americas' at Ft Benning

https://www.grunge.com/338237/the-messed-up-history-of-the-school-of-the-americas/

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-school-of-the-americas/

Around 2,000 students are recruited each year from the military in Latin American countries, and more than 60,000 have graduated since the school opened. The curriculum includes courses in psychological warfare, counterinsurgency, “enhanced interrogation” techniques, torture, civilian repression and assassination. Presented with the most sophisticated and up-to-date techniques by the US Army’s best instructors, these courses teach military officers and soldiers of Third World countries to subvert the truth, to silence union leaders and journalists, to terrorize the clergy, and to make war on their own people.[3]

It prepares them to subdue the voices of dissent and to make protesters submit.
It instructs them in techniques of marginalizing the poor, the hungry, and the dispossessed. It tells them how to stamp out freedom and terrorize their own citizens.
It trains them to destroy their people’s hope of good government.
The impact of these graduates on Latin American freedom has been devastating. Armed with sophisticated training, modern US weapons, and up-to-date techniques of control and surveillance, graduates of the SOA have terrorized their own countries for many decades.

When they return to their home countries, these so-called graduates now consider priests, social workers, journalists and intellectuals as subversives, dangerous to the system that keeps these dictators and their US sponsors in power.

[DemocraticPatriot]

2. Another American shame...

I spent a significant portion of my youth protesting American support of the rightist regime in El Salvador....

I feared Reagan would send troops to support that government, but at the least I will presume that our efforts dissuaded him from that idea...


(I even made an address on the steps of my state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, in spring of 1981, at the age of 18, as a small part of a larger protest which took place then... now I wish I still had the script, lol. The only thing I recall saying, is that such a protest would not have been allowed in El Salvador, and that we all would have been at significant risk of being gunned down by their 'national security forces'......)