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FILE - This July 1989 file photo shows, from left, Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, then head of the Salvadoran Armed Forces joint chiefs of staff, Rafael Humberto Larios, then El Salvador's defense minister, Col. Inocente Orlando Montano, then public safety vice minister and Col. Juan Orlando Zepeda, then defense vice minister, in an undisclosed location in El Salvador. Salvadoran military implicated in the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1989 said they are innocent and that the real culprits have already been tried, convicted and amnestied. On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, seven former soldiers put out a statement saying they are victims of political persecution and that they filed with the Supreme Court a writ of habeas corpus to avoid being captured and extradited to Spain. Ponce, left, died in El Salvador on May 2, 2011. (La Prensa Grafica via AP, File) EL SALVADOR OUT - NO PUBLICAR EN EL SALVADOR

FILE - This July 1989 file photo shows, from left, Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, then head of the Salvadoran Armed Forces joint chiefs of staff, Rafael Humberto Larios, then El Salvador's defense minister, Col. Inocente Orlando Montano, then public safety vice minister and Col. Juan Orlando Zepeda, then defense vice minister, in an undisclosed location in El Salvador. Salvadoran military implicated in the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1989 said they are innocent and that the real culprits have already been tried, convicted and amnestied. On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, seven former soldiers put out a statement saying they are victims of political persecution and that they filed with the Supreme Court a writ of habeas corpus to avoid being captured and extradited to Spain. Ponce, left, died in El Salvador on May 2, 2011. (La Prensa Grafica via AP, File) EL SALVADOR OUT - NO PUBLICAR EN EL SALVADOR

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