U.S. seeks extradition to Spain of Salvadoran wanted in priest killings
Source: Reuters
U.S. seeks extradition to Spain of Salvadoran wanted in priest killings
WASHINGTON | BY LINDSAY DUNSMUIR
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities will seek the extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army wanted by Spain to face charges over the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 72, had been indicted in Spain in March 2011 along with 19 other former Salvadoran army officers in connection with the murders, which took place during El Salvador's bloody 12-year civil war from 1980-1992.
He is currently serving a 21-month prison sentence in North Carolina on unrelated U.S. immigration fraud charges, and was due for release on April 15.
At the time of the killings, Montano Morales was both a colonel in the army and the vice minister of defense and public safety.
He is accused of overseeing a radio station that urged the murder of the priests as well as participating in meetings a day before the deaths in which a colleague gave the order to kill the men.
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Roses planted where the Army assassins took the 5 priests, their housekeeper, her daughter to murder.
Inocente Orlando Montano Morales [/center]
What a legacy: murdering the priests who struggle to oppose the right-wing torture-happy, homicidal maniacs terrorizing the Salvadoran people, taking the special time to slaughter their housekeeper and her daughter, and spending those long hours torturing helpless, poor Salvadoran people suffering at the hands of the US-supported small oligarchy of monsters.
Oh, be sure to get rid of him, the one doing what the king of hell loved most: sadistic treatment of those who couldn't fly to another country to escape, or move somewhere else and continue to do well, people who were forced to stay in place and suffer the barbarity of the right-wing's mindless sociopathic greed.
