El Salvador court mulls extradition of nine Jesuit massacre suspects

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http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Salvador/court/mulls/extradition/of/nine/Jesuit/massacre/suspects/elpepueng/20110809elpeng_7/Ten

The Salvadoran Supreme Court on Tuesday began studying the extradition cases of nine Salvadoran retired officers who gave themselves up to a military command over the weekend after Spain's High Court charged them in connection with their alleged participation in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests at the height of El Salvador's civil war.

In a bid to seek legal protection, the nine former officers, including ex-Defense Minister Rafael Humberto Larios, surrendered late Sunday to a special military brigade in San Salvador late Sunday. They told a justice of the peace, who appeared to inform them of the charges they were facing, that the Madrid court proceedings were illegal because the retired officers were immune from prosecution.

The officers said they were seeking protection from the Spanish High Court's "persecution."

High Court Judge Eloy Velasco issued international arrest warrants on May 30 against 20 former military officers, charging them with terrorism, murder and crimes against humanity. Last week, he ordered them to appear before him on September 14.

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1. That is really good to know, thank you.

I was just reading about them recently again. Those murderers need to be brought to some kind of justice, finally.