A jury in El Salvador sentenced three retired high-ranking military officers to 15 years in prison for the murder of four Dutch journalists in 1982, one of the highest profile cases of the Central American nation’s civil war.

A jury made up of five women convicted the three men of murder in a lightning trial that began Tuesday, a lawyer said.

Three former officers in El Salvador’s military have been convicted for the killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American country’s brutal civil war in 1982. Former Minister of National Defence Colonel Jose Guillermo Garcia,