These are former Minister of Defense Guillermo García (91), former director Francisco Antonio Morán (93) of a special police service and former colonel Mario Reyes Mena (85). The three former soldiers were not present in the courtroom.
Ikon journalists Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Hans ter Laag and Joop Willemsen were in El Salvador in 1982 to report on the civil war. Between 1980 and 1982, a right -wing government and left -wing guerrilla groups fought out a bloody war that fought by the US.
At the Chalatenango town, the three journalists were ambushed where they were killed. An amnesty law that has since been withdrawn took years before the perpetrators could be convicted.
Hans ter Laag’s sister traveled to El Salvador
Hans ter Laag was born in 1957 in Bloemendaal. He was shot in his chest and lungs, his sister previously told NH. She had been hoping for forty years for justice for the murder of her brother. “Our mother couldn’t process it. She died of grief.”
Sonja traveled to El Salvador in 2022. To say the pressure with the investigating judge. “And I wanted to see where Hans last saw the light,” she says.
“I just want them to be convicted now,” said Sonja then. “In particular, the bastard that has given the assignment. Then they can die the next day.”