"El Salvador’s Supreme Court of Justice rejected an appeal seeking to overturn a ruling that sentenced senior military officers to 30 years in prison for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war, according to a decision made public Monday.
'The appeals are hereby declared inadmissible (...) because none of them presented arguments aimed at challenging the decisive reasoning underpinning the decision that upheld the defendants’ convictions,” the ruling dated Sept. 10 states, according to a copy obtained by EFE.
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The military officers, who were part of the Army’s top command during the early years of the internal conflict, were found guilty on June 3, 2025.
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The victims were Koos Jacobus Andries Koster, Jan Cornelius Kuiper Jop, Hans Lodewijk ter Laag and Johannes Jan Willemsen, who were killed in an ambush."
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This story was translated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera
