In 1982, former Salvadorian army officers were condemned to kill 4 Dutch television journalists

Three Salvadorian SABRIDE officers were convicted by a jury of five people late on Tuesday due to the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American war. They received a 15 -year prison sentence.

Oscar Perez, the lawyer for the Foundation, which represented the families of the victims, said that the jury consisting of five women who condemned the three killing men in a thunderbolt trial that started on Tuesday morning in the northern city of Shalatinango. Perez said that the prosecutors had requested less than 15 years of sentences for a period of three years.

Former Defense Secretary Jose Guermemo Garcia, 91, was convicted of former Treasury Police Director, Colonel Francisco Moran, 93, and Colonel Mario Adalbero Reyes Mina, 85, who was the former army commander in the Fourth Infantry Brigade in Chalatano.

Garcia and Maran under the police guard at a private hospital in San Salvador, while Reyes Mina lives in the United States. In March, the Supreme Court in El Salvador ordered that the delivery process begin to return it.

Perez said that in addition to the convictions of former high -ranking officers, the judge condemned the government to delay justice and order the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, President Nayb Bokil, to issue a general apology to the victims.

Dutch television journalists – Jean -Koyber, Kos Kuster, Hans Ter La Laj and Wilmeson – are linked to the left rebels and planned to spend several days behind rebel lines reports. But the armed Silvadorian soldiers with offensive rifles and gun rifles set their ambush and bullets.

Garcia was deported from the United States in 2016, after an American judge announced that he was responsible for serious human rights violations during the early years of the war between the army and the Rais Varabondo Marti National.

The men were reopened in 2018 after the Supreme Court announced unconstitutional that the general amnesty passed after the 1980-1992 war.

I moved slowly, but in March 2022, relatives of victims and representatives of the Dutch government and the European Union demanded that officials be tried for the killing of Jean -Koyber, Kos Cooster, Hans Ter La Laj and Wilmeson.

Dutch Foreign Minister Kaspar Felcamp welcomed the condemnation.

Filcamp said in a A message on social media.

He added, “Gaming to Al -Salvador and all those who worked tirelessly in this case,” he added.

According to Communicandonos, Jean -Kiper He died just two days before his fortieth birthday, and his colleague Hans Ter La Age wrote a letter to his girlfriend shortly before the deadly journey, saying: “My dear, this Wednesday will take us to guerrilla warfare to the liberated area. We will go to Cchasetino, where the armed struggle occurs. It is a very dangerous journey and must be secret.”

Comicandonus said that Cos Coaster studied theology in college and published many books on international politics. Tombstone at Her Graveside features a picture, made by his sister, depicting a biblical story and next to the slogan: “alive.”

Job Wilinson plans to marry his partner for a long time, Yata Matsuzaki, in Mexico after his trip to El Salvador, She said.

The United Nations Truth Committee of El Salvador, which was established as part of an uniform peace agreement in 1992, concluded that there were clear evidence that the killings were the result of an ambush established by Reyes Mina on the knowledge of other officials, based on an intelligence report that warns the existence of journalists.

Other members of the army, including General Rafael Flores Lima and Sergeant. Mario Kanzales Espinoza was also accused of being involved, but he died. It is claimed that Canizales led the patrol that carried out the massacre of journalists.

Juan Carlos Sanchez, NGO, Mesa Contra La Infonidad, in comments on journalists, described the trial as a “transcendent step awaited by the 40 years.”

An estimated 75,000 civilians were killed during the Civil War of El Salvador, most of them by the US -backed government security forces.

The trial was closed to the public.