In an historic court ruling today, two Salvadoran Generals have been found liable in a torture case. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Filed at 4:10 p.m. ET July 22, 2002. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A jury Tuesday held two retired Salvadoran generals responsible for atrocities committed during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago and ordered the men to pay $54.6 million to three torture victims. Click here to read the AP article. Our new film JUSTICE AND THE GENERALS is about this and another landmark legal case filed in U.S. courts aginst these generals, both growing out of the civil war in El Salvador 20 years ago.