El Salvador court sentences 3 ex-military officers over killings of Dutch journalists in 1982
It means former Defense Minister Gen. José Guillermo García, 91, former treasury police director Col. Francisco Morán, 93, and Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, 85, will almost certainly die in jail.
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