Breach of Impunity The Trial for the Murder of Jesuits in El Salvador Report of the Observer of the International Commission of Jurists

A Breach of Impunity is an account of one of the most consequential trials in recent history and one which has lasting implications for the establishment of human rights in El Salvador. It is an account of the trial of the nine member s of the El Salvadoran military accused of the assassination of six Jesuits priests, their cook, and her 15-year-old daughter at the Central American University in San Salvador, November 16, 1989. Although the Jesuits are not the first religious victims of the Salvadoran Civil War, which has claimed the lives of 75,000, the assassinations have touched off world-wide concern over the issue of the governmentÆs response to military terrorism.International Commission of Jurists Staff is the author of 'Breach of Impunity The Trial for the Murder of Jesuits in El Salvador Report of the Observer of the International Commission of Jurists' with ISBN 9780823214433 and ISBN 0823214435.