New push for justice after 4 Dutch journalists slain in 1982
(World News USA)

It was 1982, the height of the civil war in El Salvador. Four Dutch TV journalists had linked up with leftist rebels near the town of El Paraiso, which has an army base on its outskirts. Planning to spend several days behind rebel lines, the newsmen hoisted rucksacks onto their backs and, carrying their recording gear, walked single-file down a narrow dirt trail. They had only minutes to live. Lying in wait, Salvadoran soldiers armed with assault rifles and machine guns were ready to spring an ambush. `They were sitting ducks. The military waited for them and basically executed them,` said Thomas Buergenthal, an American who was part of the three-member United Nations Truth Commission for El...