26 October 2005

Shut down the hall of shame

Shut down the School of the Americas! Click on the link at left or go to www.sojo.net

The School of the Americas (SOA) - renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001 - is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers located at Fort Benning, Georgia. It needs to close? Why?
  • The SOA has used U.S. tax dollars to train more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics.
  • SOA graduates have consistently used their skills to wage war against their own countries' civilians.
  • Among those targeted by SOA graduates: educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor.
  • What do the SOA grads do with their skills? Torture, rape, assassinate, "disappear," massacre, and force people into exile.
As recently as 2002, an SOA graduate was arrested for the murder of Colombian archbishop, Isaias Duarte.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are a prophet. Thank you for speaking so eloquently.