Event Description
On the morning of November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army entered the grounds of a Jesuit university in San Salvador, with orders to kill a priest critical of the military dictatorship and leave no witnesses. When it was all over, the soldiers murdered six priests, a housekeeper, and her daughter in cold blood.
Speaker
Almudena Bernabeu, the co-founder, and director of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, is a renowned transitional justice and international human rights lawyer. She led the investigation and prosecution for the murders that resulted in the extradition of Inocente Orlando Montano, who as El Salvador’s Vice Minister of Defense and Public Safety in 1989 helped instigate the attack.