Participant in Jesuit killings being deported from US
A junior Salvdoran army officer who was convicted of participating in the murder of the six Jesuits and their housekeeper at the University of Central America in 1989 is being deported from the US, but has amnesty in El Salvador:
Although several lower level officers like Cerritos were convicted of the murders, no senior military officials who ordered the assassinations have ever been brought to justice.
Oct. 27 (CWNews.com) - A former Salvadoran military officer who was convicted in connection with the 1989 murder of 6 Jesuit priests has been arrested in California and now faces deportation, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos was arrested at a motel in Los Angeles, and charged with entering the US illegally. He faces a deportation hearing next month.
Cerritos is one of 8 members of a military counter-insurgency unity who were charged with killing the Jesuit priests and members of their staff at a residence in San Salvador. The murders came at the height of the country's civil war, when many Catholic priests were viewed with suspicion because of links between Marxist guerillas and proponents of liberation theology.
Cerritos had been convicted, served a prison term in El Salvador, and received amnesty from the government in 1993.
Catholic World News
Although several lower level officers like Cerritos were convicted of the murders, no senior military officials who ordered the assassinations have ever been brought to justice.
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