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Witness History: I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

20/11/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

Lucia Cerna was the only witness to a murder that shocked El Salvador in November 1989

Lucia Cerna was the only witness to the murder by Salvadoran government soldiers of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter in November 1989.

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 Mike Lanchin

(Photo: a plaque commemorating the murdered priests in San Salvador- courtesy of David Mee)

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