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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. december 1980 / Time Line December 2, 1980

1. December 1980, 3. December 1980

12/03/1980
Tre katolske nonner og en amerikansk missionær, Jean Donovan, voldtages og myrdes under borgerkrigen i El Salvador.

12/02/1980
Three Catholic nuns and an American missionary, Jean Donovan, are murdered in El Salvador.
Documentation: Case History: Ford et al. v. García et al.
by Amanda Smith
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/justice/law_background_ford.html
'Between 1980 and 1991, El Salvador was engulfed in a civil war in which thousands of civilians were killed, tortured or suffered other severe human rights abuses. Among those that were routinely tortured and killed, often because of spurious allegations that they assisted leftist guerilla insurgents, were priests and nuns, lay churchworkers, union leaders, land reform workers and students. The Salvadoran military was often implicated in these actions. During this period, the Salvadoran military was an extremely hierarchical organization. At the pinnacle of this organization was the Minister of Defense. Subordinate to the Minister of Defense were the heads of the various armed forces and the heads of the "security forces" - including the National Guard. From 1979 to 1983, Jose Guillermo García was Minister of Defense and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova was Director-General of the National Guard.
In 1980, four American churchwomen were working with refugees in El Salvador: Ita Ford and Maura Clarke were nuns of the Maryknoll order, Dorothy Kazell was a nun of the Ursuline order and Jean Donovan was a Catholic layworker. Around this time, Catholic nuns and priests received numerous death threats and threats of expulsion from El Salvador.'

12/02/1980

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