Ex-Salvadoran colonel jailed for 1989 murder of Spanish Jesuits

Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, convicted in Madrid for carrying out civil war atrocity

A former Salvadoran army colonel who served as a government security minister has been sentenced to 133 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of five Spanish Jesuits who died in one of the infamous atrocities of the El Salvador's 12-year civil war.

Judges at Spain's highest criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, on Friday convicted Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, of the terrorist murders" of the five Spaniards, who were killed along with a Salvadoran Jesuit and two Salvadoran women 31 years ago.