El Salvador: Ex-president charged over priest killings in 1989 | News | DW

Former President Alfredo Cristiani has been charged in a case that has been pursued by prosecutors for years. Six Jesuit priests were killed in 1989 for being critics of the US-backed government during the civil war.

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