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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
In November 1989 Salvadoran government soldiers dragged six Jesuit priests from their beds and murdered them along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. The Salvadoran government tried to blame the killings on left-wing rebels, but one woman provided key testimony that contradicted the official version, at great personal danger. Lucia Cerna tells her story to Witness History.
(Photo: a plaque commemorating the murdered priests in San Salvador- courtesy of David Mee)
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