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Article Excerpt
A recent US court decision has given El Salvador's Catholic Church and other concerned parties new hope that the 24-year-old murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero may someday be fully adjudicated. Romero's death served to bring into full view the terror of right-wing death squads during El Salvador's civil war when he was gunned down serving mass for cancer patients on March 24, 1980. The 12-year war ended in 1992.
The lawsuit is being called a landmark case in the US. It was brought in a federal court in California by the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights group, on behalf of an unidentified relative of Romero, seeking damages for extrajudicial killing and crimes against humanity. The defendant, Alvaro Saravia, formerly an Air Force officer in the El Salvador military, had gone into hiding and was tried in absentia. The suit alleged that Saravia provided the assassin's gun, arranged for his transportation to the church, and paid the killer afterward.
Amnesty protects killers
The suit was filed in California because El Salvador currently has in force an amnesty law that renders irrelevant the 1993 findings of a UN Truth Commission that found Saravia responsible...
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