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Former Salvadoran official Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid on June 8 for his alleged role in the killing of five Spanish priests in El Salvador in 1989. Kiko Huesca/EFE via AP hide caption

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Lucía Cerna worked as a housekeeper at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador. On Nov. 16, 1989, she witnessed armed soldiers kill six Jesuit priests, a cook and a teenage girl. Danny Hajek/NPR hide caption

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'I Miss Them, Always': A Witness Recounts El Salvador's 1989 Jesuit Massacre

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