RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A former colonel of the Salvadoran army asked the Fourth Circuit for immunity Tuesday on claims he ordered the 1982 extrajudicial murder of Dutch reporters.
Gert Kuiper, the brother of slain producer and editor Jan Kuiper, seeks monetary damages from Mario Reyes Mena over his claimed role in an ambush that left four Dutch reporters and several guides dead. The ambush occurred during the country’s Civil War between the American-backed government and its army, the Salvadoran Security Forces, and the guerrilla fighters of the Soviet-supported Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, from 1979 to the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992.
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