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17 March 1982

Dutch Journalists Killed


Koos Koster
photo, 1982

BG A27/769

March 17, 1982 four Dutch journalists were murdered in El Salvador. The Duarte government, supported by the US, was held responsible. Demonstrations were held near the American consulate in Amsterdam.

See also:

•  Koos Koster papers and other collections on El Salvador


Today in the Biographies Dutch Labour Movement


Born on 17 March

•  Albert Pieter Hahn
•  Benedictus Herschel Sajet

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