The Murder of El Salvador's Jesuits
The shocking killings that became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war.
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
November 17, 20149m 0s
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Show Notes
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)