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- Subject: EL SALVADOR: "TRUE JUSTICE" CALLED FOR IN JESUIT KILLINGS
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- Subject: IPS:True Justice Called For
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- Title: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLED FOR IN JESUIT KILLINGS
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- san salvador, aug 12 (ips) -- a top jesuit official has called
- for the release of two soldiers condemned for the 1989 murder of
- six jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, saying
- the true intellectual authors of the crime remain free.
-
- ''we do not want to be accomplices to an injustice that lays
- all the blame on just two of the accused,'' the central american
- director of the jesuit order, jose maria tojeira, said on
- wednesday, while asking for amnesty for the two officers.
-
- the killings occurred on the grounds of the ''jose simeon
- canas'' central american university on nov. 15, 1989 in the midst
- of a massive anti-government offensive launched by the farabundo
- marti liberation front (fmln).
-
- the convicted officers are colonel guillermo banavides, former
- director of el salvador's military academy, and lieutenant yussy
- rene mendoza, accused of burning documents relating to the
- military's participation in the assassinations.
-
- both were sentenced to 30 years in prison, following an
- october 1991 trial, in which six other soldiers were acquitted.
-
- in his statement, tojeira said a thorough and honest
- investigation was needed to discover and punish the authors of
- the crime.
-
- according to peace accords signed between the government and
- fmln in january, the jesuit killings, along with other notorious
- human rights violations, will be investigated by a ''commission
- of truth.''
-
- the commission is made up of former colombian president
- belisario betancur, former venezualan foreign minister reinaldo
- figueredo and u.s. judge thomas buergenthal.
-
- the commission will spend six months investigating human
- rights abuses perpetrated in the course of the country's 12 year
- civil war.
-
- in addition, since may, another ad hoc commission made up of
- three salvadorans, has been investigating the conduct of some
- 2,188 military officials as part of the plan to ''clean up'' the
- armed forces.
-
- tojeira considers both commissions important, but complained
- that they have not been given enough time or support to truly
- investigate the role of the military in human rights violations.
-
- ''they have done a good job, but they still need more time to
- investigate, as the military is implicated in so many cases,''
- the priest said. (end/ips/trd/so/bf-sfi/eli/kb/92)
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