Title: Justice & the generals
Description: Companion to the PBS documentary which covers the initial investigation of the abduction, rape, and murder of three nuns and one lay worker by El Salvadoran National Guardsmen, the trial of the Guardsmen on December 2, 1980, and later attempts to bring to justice the military leaders (Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, director of the National Guard, and Jose Guillermo Garcia, head of the ministry of defense) who ordered the murders. Discusses the conditions in El Salvador which led to the murders, the U.S. laws under which the charges were filed, the problem of human rights around the world. The education section is geared toward 11th and 12th graders and their teachers, including lesson plans and a list of additional resources.
Subjects: State-sponsored terrorism, Trials (Murder), Trials, litigation, Missions, Assassination, Investigation, Death squads, Maryknoll Sisters
Places: El Salvador
People: Jose Guillermo Garcia, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova