'I Miss Them, Always': A Witness Recounts El Salvador's 1989 Jesuit Massacre
NPR'I Miss Them, Always': A Witness Recounts El Salvador's 1989 Jesuit Massacre Enlarge this image toggle caption Danny Hajek/NPR Danny Hajek/NPR On Nov. 16, 1989, a housekeeper named Lucía Cerna was startled awake by a violent commotion outside her window. "There were always bodies being discovered in the dumps," says Victor Abalos, who reported during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s as a freelance journalist. Enlarge this image toggle caption Stephen Kroeger Stephen Kroeger "Be a patriot, kill a priest" Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Amando López, Juan Ramón Moreno and Joaquín López y López were some of the top scholars in El Salvador. "One of their models was to love and to serve," says Paulita Pike, an American who studied with the Jesuits at the Central American University, and lives in El Salvador. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ignacio Martín-Baró/Courtesy of the Cerna family Ignacio Martín-Baró/Courtesy of the Cerna family "I even knew them by the sounds of their footsteps when they'd walk in the office," she says.
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