The murders of Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen and Hans ter Laag of the public service broadcaster IKON sparked great outrage in the Netherlands at the time. The four reporters had gone to El Salvador in 1982 to make a television programme. From 1980 to 1992 the Central American country was the scene of a bloody civil war between a right-wing government and left-wing guerrilla groups.—SFB