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muriel_volestrangler

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Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:07 PM Sep 2020

Spain sentences El Salvador ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for priests' murder

A court in Spain has sentenced a former Salvadoran army colonel to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in his homeland in 1989.

Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, was found guilty of "terrorist murder".

The killings happened during El Salvador's civil war, when Catholic priests were often accused by the government of collaborating with left-wing rebels.
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"The truth is what this sentence says today and it says it with absolute clarity, that the crimes were planned, plotted and decided from the Salvadoran military high command," he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54126548

He was extradited from the USA; El Salvador is refusing to extradite other similarly accused. But it's good to see one convicted.
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Spain sentences El Salvador ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for priests' murder (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2020 OP
Thank goodness justice managed to be delivered from Spain, while being denied by the Americas. Judi Lynn Sep 2020 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Thank goodness justice managed to be delivered from Spain, while being denied by the Americas.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:09 AM
Sep 2020


Rejection of compassion for the poor, the indigenous, by the materially obsessed right-wing, supported by the US politicians, blended smoothly with a full gallop toward the US evangelism movement, which wildly embraced genocide, torture, and all out race hatred.

Jesuit liberation clergy became hunted enemies of the holy rolling US-supported dictators, who were fully supported by the US right-wing and prominent TV evangelists who used the fear of "communism" to drive hysteria within their congregations and gladly sent leftover hard-earned tithing from their congregations South for weaponry, incidentals, etc. Love offerings.

Seeing this goblin clown who's been lurking in the US with his fellow mass murderers and torturers face the music is a dream come true.
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