Martyrs of the Jesuit University, San Salvador, Nov 16 1989

Ignacio Ellacuria, Frs Segundo Montes and Ignacio Martin-Baro, Julia Elba and Marisette Ramos were murdered, Nov 16, 1989, at the Jesuit University in San Salvador, El Salvador. Of the links below, the first is Robert Lentz's reflections on their killings. The second is the President of Georgetown Univ. in the US, pleading for an end to the Salvadoran civil war in which 75,000 people died.

The US has a long history of interference in Latin America. Hugo Chavez sounded like a nutcase when he ranted at Bush in front of the UN, but his words are, frankly, justifiable. Oscar Romero, a murdered Catholic archbishop, was assasinated by a death squad probably trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Before his murder, he had pleaded with then-President Carter to end military aid to El Salvador's government - it was being used to murder the people of El Salvador, under the guise of defending against Communist insurgents. For the sake of containing Communism, the US funded and aided numerous dictators in Latin America.

These six martyrs are only a handful of the victims. Their killers have blood on their hands, which they will answer for before the Supreme Judge. However, we too have blood on our hands, and we too must repent. Too often, we refuse to know about the misdeeds committed in the name of our country. And let us pray that these six, and all the others we have killed or allowed to be killed shall rest in eternal light, and find mercy and justice before God. Amen.

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