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The Audacious Plot To Kill A Colonel

28/11/2017 GMT

The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel

How El Salvador's leftist rebels led a top army officer into a deadly trap

How leftist rebels in El Salvador led the country's top army officer, Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, into a deadly trap.

Colonel Domingo Monterrosa was one of El Salvador's most successful and ruthless military commanders in the fight against leftist rebels. But in October 1984 the rebels carried out an audacious plan to kill him. Mike Lanchin has spoken to one former rebel and a war correspondent about the man and the plot.

(Photo: Colonel Domingo Monterrosa (R), speaking with one of his company commanders, 1983. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

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