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Santa Rita Massacre (1982) On this day in 1982, the Salvadoran army assassinated a group of Dutch journalists and FMLN soldiers in violation of international law

Santa Rita Massacre (1982)

Wed Mar 17, 1982

Image: A memorial for those killed during the Salvadoran Civil War, located at the Museumplein in Amsterdam. Five crosses have been placed - four for the killed Dutch journalists in El Salvador, and a central, elevated one for 40,000 murdered Salvadorans. [Wikipedia]

On this day in 1982, the Salvadoran army assassinated a group of Dutch journalists and FMLN soldiers in violation of international law. The murders caused international outrage, and the colonel who ordered the attack fled to the U.S.

The four journalists had arrived in El Salvador on February 24th, 1982 to report on the ongoing Salvadoran Civil War, fought between the right-wing military junta ruling the country with U.S. support, and the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).

As part of their work, the journalists visited Mariona prison in San Salvador to interview and film prisoners accused of belonging to the guerrilla forces. The videos filmed by the journalists included shots of prisoners' scars, which the prisoners said were the result of torture.

This work earned the ire of the military, and the journalists were interrogated by the Director-General of the Treasury Police on March 11th. Despite being advised to leave by Jan Pierre Lucien Schmeitz, another Dutch journalist, as well as their FMLN contacts, the group decided to stay to complete their work.

On March 17th, 1982, soldiers from the Atonal Battalion, acting on orders from Colonel Reyes Mena, assassinated the journalists while they were traveling with a group of five FMLN soldiers. All but one of the FMLN guerillas survived.

The deaths caused international outrage, including mass protests in the Netherlands. The Dutch government conducted an investigation which uncovered the fact that U.S. soldiers were present at the base the day of the massacre.

The 1993 Report of the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador concluded that the murders were a targeted assassination by the state (not an "accident", as the Salvadoran President claimed), and were in violation of international law. The report was aided by the testimony of "Martin", the lone survivor of the attack.

Salvadoran Col. Reyes Mena, whom the U.N. concluded ordered the massacre, fled to the United States after the incident. Reyes Mena was discovered in Virginia and confronted at his home by the Dutch organization ZEMBLA in 2018.

• Date: 1982-03-17
• Learn More: www.derechos.org, www.youtube.com, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Assassinations, #Massacre, #Journalism.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13501735/Syrian-refugee-murders-Westernised-daughter-18-honour-killing-dumps-canal-started-dating-local-Dutch-boy-wanted-stop-wearing-headscarf.html

A Syrian refugee who fled to the Netherlands has reportedly confessed to murdering his 18-year-old daughter and dumping her body in a canal before fleeing the country in an apparent admission note sent to a Dutch newspaper.

Father-of-nine Khaled al-Najjar, 52, wrote in an email sent to De Telegraaf that he had killed his 18-year-old daughter Ryan al-Najjar, urging the publication to report 'I am the one who killed'.

The confession did not specify exactly why he had decided to murder his daughter, with al-Najjar writing only that he was 'very angry with her', adding: 'The reason is between me and the judge. I will read that in court'.

But neighbours and friends suspect Ryan's death came as the result of an honour killing, with one claiming they had previously sheltered her when she had fled the family home in fear of retribution from her father.

Requesting anonymity to prevent any backlash, they told De Telegraaf that Ryan had a Dutch boyfriend, wanted to stop wearing a headscarf and had been beaten by her father who disagreed with her adoption of a Western lifestyle.

I'm an American and I'm thinking about moving to the Netherlands sometime in the future especially if a "certain presidential candidate" gets elected. Now, I've never been to the Netherlands or anywhere in Europe for that matter. Everything I "know" about the country comes from Youtube videos/channels that brag about how great it is. One of the things that gets that touted the most is the cycling infrastructure and walkability. As someone trying to move away from car dependency this seems to be a no-brainer. Amsterdam seems like the obvious choice but I've been told that Utrecht has a better cycling infrastructure. What do you think?

I'm a German living in Nijmegen since 2020. Since moving here I regularly see groups of school children with their teachers collecting trash all through the city. Sometimes I even see individual adults doing this. They'll typically wear high visibility vests and have proper equipment (grabbers and pokers) for the job. But they are obviously not working directly for the local garbage disposal service. - so what's going on here? I really like the idea of regular people keeping the city clean. I think it's a great value to instill in school children too!

But how exactly does that work? Is this a regular thing in the Netherlands? Do people just go out and collect trash? Do they get the equipment from the local garbage disposal? Is it volunteer work, or payed mini jobs? I'm really curious!

EDIT: I found out that this is the so-called Wijkhelden program of our local garbage disposal service.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5143956

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