Human Rights Abusers Continue to be Trained at the School of the Americas

[Earth_First]

Known Human Rights Abusers Continue to be Trained at the School of the Americas

WASHINGTON - March 25 - Despite the U.S. Army's claim that Latin American soldiers and police undergo a stringent vetting process before receiving military training at the controversial Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the successor institute to the School of the Americas (SOA), new research reveals that a number of students with well documented histories of human rights abuses in their home countries have recently attended the institution. These students were Colonel Francisco del Cid Diaz of El Salvador, Major Filmann Urzagaste Rodriguez of Bolivia, and three Colombian police officers Captain Dario Sierro Chapeta, Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Patino Fonseca, and Captain Luis Benavides.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0325-07.htm

[4morewars]

1. More Here :

http://www.soaw.org/new/pressrelease.php?id=68

And Here :

http://www.soaw.org/new/

[sweetheart]

2. "... and those states that train and harbour terrorists."

If afganistan earned an invasion and a murder-warrant on its head of
state of doing the same thing the SOA does, then that would, by
equivalent, make a defacto murder-warrant on (someone else who, were
i to mention their name, would get this post deleted) without a trial
an expected phenomena. Israeli style helecopter missiles and
boofoo... no more state terrorism supporters.

I'm merely stating the logic we use to indict other heads of state
for preemptive murder. With SOA, we stand for nothing, and are no
better than our enemies. We don't deserve to win. God is not on
anyone's side given this moral sewer.