During the Salvadoran Civil War, on 16 November 1989, Salvadoran Army soldiers killed six Jesuits and two women, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of Central American
Rose Garden at UCA, El Salvador. The place where Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Amando López, Joaquín López y López, Elba Ramos y Celina Ramos, were killed on 16 November 1989, by a military platoon.
Rose Garden at UCA, El Salvador. The place where the victims were killed on 16 November 1989
Atlácatl Battalion
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The Atlácatl Battalion was one of 14 Batallones de Infantería de Reacción Inmediata of the Salvadoran Army created in the 1980s. Atlácatl was raised in 1981 and disbanded in 1992. It was implicated in
1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador
…priests with the rebels, because of their special concern for those Salvadorians who were poorest and thus most affected by the war. Members of the Atlácatl Battalion, an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army implicated in some of the most infamous incidents of the Salvadoran Civil War, were a rapid-response, counterinsurgency…
Camouflaged soldiers of the Salvadoran army gather in a staging area during Exercise GRANADERO I DPLA 9bf 12e 00c 36034f 2f 55c 1c 1d 2170d 52b
Atlacatl Battalion insignia