Ignacio Ellacuría was a Spanish-born El Salvadoran Jesuit priest, philosopher, theologian, and human rights activist who contributed to the development of liberation theology in Latin America. He and seven other people, including five other priests, were assassinated in 1989 by the Salvadoran military during El Salvador’s civil war. They are collectively known as the Salvadoran Martyrs. Ellacuría had been a vocal critic of the military’s human rights abuses and of the war.
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