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... The School of the Americas also known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, in Fort Benning, Georgia, has raised great controversy over the last 56 years. The school trains Latin American soldiers to violate the rights of their fellow citizens of South and Central America. ...
First of all there is a little history to the school. “The [School of the Americas] has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. ... Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins. ... Also, “the military school at Fort Benning, Georgia, is funded by U. ... The [school] was first established in 1946 as the U. ... Kennedy, the school shifted its focus to Cold War concerns under the umbrella term "counterinsurgency”. In 1984 the school relocated to Georgia in compliance with the Panama Canal Treaties terms and continues to train soldiers there today. ... htm) The school also claims dedication to human rights. ... htm)
Over the last ten years there has been a lot of pressure by the public and by members of congress to investigate actions of the school. ... [The] bi-partisan amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill for the Fiscal 2001 to cut funding and investigate the school was defeated by a narrow 10 vote margin. ... ”(The Terrorist Manuals, Sasha Retford , June15, 2002)
Training manuals used by the school has also created much controversy and the United States National security agency released documents about these manuals. ... The manuals were used for training by Mobile Training Teams in Latin America from 1987 to 1989 and by the School of the Americas from 1989 to 1991. ... [The school’s] instructors incorrectly assumed that the information in the manuals was consistent with approved doctrine. ... September 20, 1996, the Pentagon released seven training manuals prepared by the US military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses in Latin America and at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA). ... [A School of the Americas] graduate Gen. ...
Graduates [of the school] have been linked to some of Colombia’s most heinous massacres, including the 1988 massacre in Segovia in which 43 people were killed, the Trujillo chainsaw massacres, which took place between 1988 and 1991, and the 1993 Riofrio massacre. ... ( Terrorist Training, American Style, Heather Wokusch, Monday, October 28, 2002,)
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