Somali Expatriots Charged with War Crimes
- November 11, 2004
A California-based human rights group has filed lawsuits accusing two Somali residents of Northern Virginia of war crimes, including ordering torture, killings, rapes and other acts of brutality against a rival clan during the 1980s when they held positions of power in their homeland…
Honduras’ Ex-Intelligence Chief Faces Torture Charges
- October 21, 2004
More than 20 years ago, a journalist called Oscar Reyes and his wife Gloria, an interior designer, were taken from their home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras by members of the country’s armed forces as part of an operation against suspected “subversives.”
New winds of justice for El Salvador
- October 1, 2004
“For me personally, the verdict provided a strong sense of healing and closure. For almost 25 years, I had carried a bag of heavy rocks with me everywhere I went. The day that I testified, I left that bag of rocks with the U.S. justice system…”
US court orders man behind death-squad killing of El Salvador’s archbishop to pay $10m in damages
- September 5, 2004
Almost 25 years after El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot with a single bullet in the heart as he said Mass, a court in the United States has found someone responsible for his murder…
Ex-Salvadoran officer ruled liable in killing of archbishop in 1980
- September 4, 2004
A federal judge in Fresno ruled Friday that a former Salvadoran air force captain is liable for $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages for his involvement in the assassination almost a quarter century ago of El Salvador’s Roman Catholic archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero…
Man Is Found Liable in Killing of Salvadoran Archbishop
- September 4, 2004
A federal judge found a retired Salvadoran air force captain liable on Friday in the 1980 killing of Archbishop Óscar Romero and ordered him to pay $2.5 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages…
$10m for an archbishop’s murder
- September 4, 2004
The family of an archbishop assassinated while celebrating Mass in El Salvador has won $10m (£5.4m) damages from a retired air force captain who ordered his murder 24 years ago…
Judge finds Modesto man liable for 1980 Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, Orders him to pay $10 million in damages
- September 3, 2004
Justice Comes for the Archbishop
- August 31, 2004
Nearly 25 years after Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, a chance for justice has finally appeared.
Fresno suit hearing recalls Salvadoran cleric’s slaying in ’80
- August 25, 2004
The brazen murder of El Salvador’s Roman Catholic Archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was vividly recalled Tuesday at an unusual hearing in a Fresno courtroom…
