"The trial for the 1982 murder of four Dutch journalists—Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen, and Hans ter Laag—scheduled for April 23 has been suspended following a request by the attorney for Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, who informed the court that her client was undergoing surgery and would be unable to attend. The judge accepted the medical excuse and rescheduled the hearing for 8 a.m. on June 3.
This suspension represents yet another delay in the pursuit of truth and justice for the victims, their families, the people of El Salvador, and the people of the Netherlands. After more than four decades of struggle, postponing the trial further revictimizes those who have waited so long for justice and delays a historic opportunity to end impunity for crimes committed during El Salvador’s armed conflict."
