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Salvadoran court convicts 3 former army officers in the 1982 killing of 4 Dutch journalists
- In 2025, a former defense minister along with two colonels faced charges in El Salvador for their alleged involvement in the 1982 murder of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war.
- The trial comes after a 1993 UN Truth Commission report concluded that the journalists were caught in a trap orchestrated by former commander Reyes, with the awareness of other officers.
- The defendants, including 91-year-old Garcia and 93-year-old Moran, await a decision by a panel of five jurors in Chalatenango, with potential sentences reaching up to 30 years.
- Evidence includes a former US military attache’s statement and a military expert report, and an NGO praised the trial as a “decisive step” toward justice.
- The trial, closed to media and delayed for decades after amnesty laws were overturned, may establish a precedent in combating impunity for civil war crimes.
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Forty-three years after the murder of Dutch journalists Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemse and Hans ter Laag, a Salvadoran court has condemned three former military commanders and the State for the crime that occurred during the civil war on March 17, 1982.
In a ruling described as "historical" for Salvadoran and Latin American justice, a sentencing court sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison three high military commanders for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, in the context of the Salvadoran civil war. The ruling includes the State assuming responsibility for delaying justice, and from the country's Armed Forces an official pronouncement of public apology must be issued with the…
The Straits Times
The Smart Citizen ReportTop Salvadoran ex-military officers sentenced for wartime killing of Dutch journalists
SAN SALVADOR - A jury in El Salvador sentenced three retired high-ranking military officers to 15 years in prison for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, one of the highest profile cases of the Central American nation's civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
It was an expected verdict in El Salvador, but also in the Netherlands: three former senior members of the Salvadoran army were sentenced on Tuesday 3 June to 15 years in prison for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982.
The murder of the four communicators occurred while covering the civil war in the Central American country
Salvadoran Court Convicts 3 Former Army Officers in the 1982 Killing of 4 Dutch Journalists
Three former Salvadoran military officers were convicted by a five-person jury for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American nation’s civil war. They received 15-year prison sentences.
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