Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week, the moment when the Taser first hit the streets in the fight against crime.

There was people out on the street and they were applauding because the officers didn't go in and

you know I have to beat the guy up in order to get him handcuffed and the officer didn't get beat up.

Plus we've got the story of the legal fight for ownership of Klimt's masterpiece, Woman in Gold.

Travels in Arabia with Wilfred Thesiger and the man who got the metro built beneath the Indian capital.

The main condition I put was that I should be given a free hand.

There should be no political interference in my work, no bureaucratic interference.

This was one assurance I took.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But first this week a key moment towards the end of the 1980s and one of Central America's

Bitterist Civil Wars. 30 years ago this month, Salvadoran government Central America's bitterest civil wars.

Thirty years ago this month, Salvadoran government soldiers dragged six Jesuit priests

from their beds and murdered them, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.

The government tried to blame the killings on left-wing

rebels, but one woman provided vital testimony that contradicted the official version,

at great danger to herself. Lucia Cerna has told her story to Mike Lanchin.

November 1989, fighting is raging in the cities in El Salvador as Marxist rebels

launched a major offensive against US-backed government forces.

It's some of the heaviest combat since the early years of the war. The rebels appear to have moved into the

capital in force and have held positions for more than 12 hours.

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