Following the arrests of four Salvadoran soldiers wanted in connection with the 1989 Jesuit murders, the University of Central America Jose Simon Canas released a ten-point statement. The people at the
Ignatian Solidarity Network kindly translated the document from
Spanish to
English.
10. To know what really happened in this, and in other cases, will be good for El Salvador; it will contribute to doing justice for the victims; it will be an important step in the process of reconciliation and will bring peace to the perpetrators themselves. Only by following this path will we be able to say with the prophet Isaiah, “The work of justice will be peace and the fruits of justice will be tranquility and security forever. My people will live in good homes, in safe neighborhoods, in peaceful places.” For the people of God, there has never been a contradiction between justice and peace, nor between truth and peace. On the contrary, peace is the fruit of truth and of justice.
You can read the other nine points
here.
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