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| De åtta som mördades, fem av dem spanska jesuitpräster och de tre övriga en salvadoransk jesuitpräst och en kvinnlig anställd med dotter. |
El
Salvador: I Madrid ställs två av mördarna av de fem spanska jesuitprästerna
inför rätta
TEGUCIGALPA / DICK EMANUELSSON /
2020-06-08 / I dag inleddes i Madrid rättegången mot två av de utpekade
mördarna av åtta personer, fem av dem spanska jesuitpräster, som mördades av en
dödsskvadron från den USA-stödda salvadoranska armén i november 1989. Beslutet
att avrätta de fem fattades av den högsta ledningen för armén, vars generaler
hade utbildats på School of Americas i USA.
Det
är den spanska människorättsorganisationen `La Asociación
Pro Derechos Humanos de España´ som under tio års tid har fört en hård strid med den reaktionära
spanska rättsapparaten för att denna, enligt internationell rätt, skulle inleda
processen mot det salvadoranska militära etablissemanget.
De
utpekade är överste Inocente Montano Morales och
löjtnant René Mendoza Vallecillos, enheter ur den salvadoranska
armén som den 16 november 1989 sköt ihjäl de fem jesuitprästerna samt en
salvadoransk jesuitpräst och en kvinnlig anställd på det Centralamerikanska
Universitetet UCA i San Salvador som mördades i sällskap med sin dotter.
Enligt
anklagelsepunkterna och enligt de salvadoranska människorättsorganisationerna
utgjorde de anklagade delar av en parallell struktur inom den salvadoranska armén.
Denna var en del i den av CIA och Pentagon utformade manualen för ”Smutsigt
Krig” som ägnade sig åt gripanden, tortyr, försvinnanden och avrättning av vad
Pentagon i sin ”Nationella Säkerhetsdoktrin” karaktäriserar som ”den Inre
Fienden”, det vill säga den politiska revolutionära vänstern.
Det
var denna struktur, med deltagande av ”Dödsskvadronpartiet” ARENA som mördade
San Salvadors älskade ärkebiskop Oscar Arnulfo
Romero. Arena
uttalade under den politiska krisen och försöket till statskupp i Nicaragua
april-juli 2018 sitt ”totala stöd till den nicaraguanska oppositionen”!
THE TRIAL FOR THE MURDERS OF THE JESUITS IN EL SALVADOR BEGINS
This
culminates a process whose instruction began more than a decade ago with the
complaint filed by the Spanish Association for Human Rights in defense of the
interests of the victims.
On
Monday, June 8, 2020, the trial of those responsible for the murders of the
Spanish Jesuits in El Salvador will begin in Madrid, before the Criminal
Chamber of the National Court. This culminates a process whose instruction
began more than a decade ago with the complaint filed by the Spanish
Association for Human Rights in defense of the interests of the victims.
The Pro Human Rights Association of Spain presented
before the Second Section of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court, a year
ago, the brief of accusation against Colonel Inocente Montano Morales and
Lieutenant René
Mendoza Vallecillos , of the Army of the Republic from El
Salvador, for the murder, on the early morning of November 16, 1989, of the
Spanish Jesuit priests Ignacio
Ellacuría Beascoechea, Ignacio Martín Baró, Segundo Montes Mozo,
Amando López Quintana and Juan Ramón Moreno Pardo ,
and the Jesuit priest Joaquín
López López , the employee Julia Elba Ramos and
her daughter Celina
Mariceth Ramos , the last three of Salvadoran nationality.
The trial will begin at 3:00 pm in Madrid and will be broadcast live, in
order to comply - in COVID 19's time - with the principle of publicity and
orality of the criminal justice debates. The sessions will begin with the
exposition and resolution of the recent request of the accused Mendoza that his
criminal responsibility for the prescription of the crimes imputed to him be
excluded. Yushi René Mendoza Valdecillos was a young officer of the
Salvadoran Army when the events took place, and since then has maintained a
procedural position of collaboration with the justice and reparation of the
victims, for the full clarification of the facts, the investigation of the case
and holding this trial.
The defendants were part of the parallel structures of the Salvadoran army that
systematically used clandestine procedures of dirty war and state terrorism
during the internal armed conflict in the Central American country in order to
alter public peace and instill terror in the population through actions such as
extrajudicial executions of opponents, indiscriminate attacks against the
civilian population with firearms and explosives, enforced disappearances,
torture and other attempts against the life and physical and moral integrity of
people, and also against property; attacks including the 1980 murder of
Monsignor Óscar
Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, and successive bomb
attacks on the headquarters of the Central American University, UCA, which in
no case could be considered a military objective.
This chain of aggressions manifestly in violation of International
Humanitarian Law, culminated in 1989 with the murder of Ignacio Ellacuría and
his companions, decided by the Salvadoran Army General Staff, and executed in a
premeditated and treacherous manner by the Atlacatl Battalion that ended the
life of all victims of multiple firearm injuries.
For more than twenty years, the Association for Human Rights of Spain
has been present and contributing to the exercise of popular action in the
initiatives in which it has been exercised in our country, despite the
limitations imposed by the successive reforms of our Organic Law of Judiciary
in contravention of International Conventions ratified by Spain, the universal
jurisdiction to protect victims of the most serious human rights violations and
to exercise their right to justice.
After thirty years of the murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador, the
APDHE reiterates its commitment to continue accompanying the victims in these
cases for justice, and defending the exercise of universal jurisdiction in our
courts while advocating the recovery of the legislative framework twice unduly
restricted by our legislators in breach of the obligations previously
contracted by Spain. In accordance with the Vienna Convention on the Law
of Treaties, no country can invoke its internal law to disregard international
obligations previously contracted by signing a Treaty.
The sacrifice of Ellacuría and her companions, demonstration of their
unwavering commitment to the most disadvantaged, to human rights, to peace and
justice, moved the entire world and continues to be a benchmark and example of
coherence and service for successive generations of human rights
defenders. Seeking justice three decades after their murders is our
contribution to their memory.
To carry out the summary for the murder of the Jesuits, the APDHE has
relied for more than a decade on the selfless effort of the Association's lawyers. Our
thanks to Manuel Ollé Sesé, Almudena Bernabéu García, Maite Parejo Sousa, Eva
Gimbernat Díaz, José Antonio Martín Pallín, Vidal Martín and Sara Ruiz Calvo,
and to so many colleagues with and without toga who have contributed to this
collective effort; Extensive thanks to the Martín Baró family and the
Alumni Association of the Colegio San José de la Compañía de Jesús in Valencia
for having accompanied us as prosecutors in the procedure.
