Witness History: Archive 2014

The Murder of El Salvador's Jesuits


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In November 1989 government soldiers shot dead six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. The shocking killings became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war. We hear from Lucia Cerna, who was forced to flee the country because of what she witnessed that night.

(Photo: Mourners gather for the funeral of the Salvadorean Jesuits. Credit: AP/Luis Romero)

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