SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Friday ordered the capture of former President Alfredo Cristiani in relation to the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others by soldiers. Prosecutors allege that Cristiani knew of the military’s plan to eliminate the priests and did nothing to stop them. “The truth is I never knew of the plans they had to commit those killings,” Cristiani said. Cristiani left El Salvador in June 2021 after appearing before a special congressional panel investigating overpayments to former government officials. While the case stalled at home, a Spanish court in 2020 sentenced former Salvadoran Col. Inocente Orlando Montano to 133 years for the priests’ killings.

Source: The Star March 12, 2022 11:04 UTC