The Ambush

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Date and time of the ambush: March 17, 1982, 5:20 pm

Impunity watch

Loved ones, relatives and society in general, for more than three decades have suffered the pain of the loss of the four Dutch journalists, today they continue asking for answers and justice on this condemnable crime. Hope survives despite the passage of time, with the confidence that one day the clock of impunity will stop and this crime against humanity will be prosecuted before the courts.

"We knew it was an ambush"

The cold-blooded murder of Jan, Koos, Hans and Joop, marked the lives not only of their loved ones, but also of their colleagues, both have done the same so that this painful fact is not forgotten, and for that the new generations know who they were and the complex historical moment in which their work was developed in El Salvador.

This multimedia made with the contents of the book The Ambush, Murder and Memory of Four Dutch Journalists in El Salvador , aims to promote the right to truth, justice and reparation, as it is not possible that forgetfulness and impunity reign in our minds and hearts, and also indicate that this is the right path for our society. You can not build a country on lies or half-truths. Therefore, to struggle to find the truth and to do justice is a right and a moral obligation for all of us.

The third chapter, written by Willian Carballo, gives a complete chronicle that shows the premeditation with which the military operation was planned to end the life of the IKON team

The paper was hidden inside the clothes of a dead guerrilla and had a surname written: Koster. To the members of the Sixth Infantry Brigade who searched the possessions of the corpse of that FMLN combatant - killed according to the military act in a clash in the eastern department of Usulután - they were struck by the name and what, without any comma or period , it was read later in the note: "in Hotel Alameda room 418 tel 239999 Dutch".

"I feel lucky to be here, I still live"

Bernabé Recinos, a political prisoner during the Salvadoran conflict, talks about the difficult experience he experienced with his companions. Bernabé was in the group of detainees who were interviewed by the IKON team, in the Mariona prison, three days before the murder of the four Dutch journalists.

Murder and memory of four Dutch journalists in El Salvador

Impunity watch

"We knew it was an ambush"

12 years not to repeat

Four lives taken

The case is reopened

"I feel lucky to be here, I still live"