Salvadoran police have arrested

Salvadoran police have arrested four former soldiers wanted in Spain
for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests during the Central American country's brutal civil war, officials said Saturday. Five of the priests were Spanish and their killings sparked international outrage.

The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mons. Arturo Rivera y Damas and journalists view the bodies of six Jesuit priests murdered in San Salvador. The priests, the leadership of the local Jesuit University and two employees were killed and mutilated by a squad of assassins. They had received death threats the previous day. Salvadoran police said Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, that they’ve arrested four former soldiers wanted in Spain for the 1989 murder of the priests. Five of the priests were Spanish.

Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren later called on the military officers still fugitive in the case to turn themselves in to authorities. "There are people who have hidden; we don't know if they have left the country, but my recommendation is that they turn themselves in to justice," he said. "We need to know the truth about what happened in the past, but we also need justice as well as pardon."