BY Kate Hayden, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs -- Posted on November 15, 2012 This essay will examine  some new developments in the case of one of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Salvadoran security forces during the twelve year long civil war: the massacre on the campus of the Jos Simen Caas University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador on November 16, 1989. This is an immensely important issue because it could begin to balance the dialectic between impunity and accountability to the side of accountability. For the first time, a high-ranking army officer may soon be tried for this crime. A number of legal actions have converged to make this possible, with the main players being a Spanish Court, US immigration authorities, and the methodical work of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA). Their work, in turn, would not have been possible if not for the dedication of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the late Congressman Joseph Moakley early on in the investigation. 1 We begin with a brief description of the crime and its historical context, and then turn to the significance of the conviction last month of Inocente Orlando Montano on charges of immigration fraud and perjury. Source: Illustration by Margaret Scott, specifically for this piece The Crime and the Context According to the findings of the UN-sponsored Commission on the Truth for El