, although nearly ninety-seven percent of Salvadorans are of Cristina faiths. Protestant groups have grown to be about twenty percent of the population. The night of his election he had communion and there were lots of supports and suddenly the National Guard came in and started yelling orders. They told people who wanted to leave, to leave. Then they opened fire. Once the onslaught had ceased, there was a calculation of about sixty people killed. Not long after this night his best friend, who was also a priest with him, would be killed. From this point on, Romero decides that he is going to stop all these acts of violence and terrorism. There are many times when Romero put his life on the line. Finally the repression groups have had enough with Romero disobedience that he is assassinated. Oscar Romero was killed on the 24 of March while saying mass. I'm not sure which group the killer came from, but he entered the back of the church and took his shot and killed Romero. Before the assassination occurred, the people involved drew straws to determine who would be the "lucky person". After the shot was fired the man fled in an awaiting car and was never apprehended. At Romero's funeral security forces opened fire on all the people who attended the funeral. On November sixth the junta was supposed to formally dissolve the organization ORDEN. This was based on all the many cases of human rights abuse. But no effective measures where taken to disband the squad and continued to operate. Since they weren't disbanded ORDEN continued to go on with many of the tortures and killings as they did before. Another massacre known as the massacre of Monte Carlo involved the assistance of ORDEN. Amnesty International gives this account on the night:On the night of 7 April 1981 when more than 20 people, including several youths ewer taken from their homes in San Nicolas de Soyapango, a suburb to the east of San Salvador, by a group of men, some of them ...
