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El Soldiers: Superiors I and Rope Belt

el soldiers: The day before he was killed, the archbishop gave a sermon that commanded El Salvador's soldiers to disobey the orders of their superiors, according to Rabble. I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. The pope was wearing Romero's bloodstained rope belt, the one Romero wore when he was assassinated on March 24, 1980. Brothers, you come from our own people. Matt Eisenbrandt, human-rights lawyer and the author of Assassination of a Saint The Plot to Murder scar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice, described that sermon on the Democracy Now! news hour You can hear on the audiotapes of the radio broadcast the way that that applause built as he led up to that line saying, 'Stop the repression.' That then echoed throughout the radios around the country into every corner of El Salvador. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' He went on, In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God Stop the repression. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.