in 1989, when a Salvadoran army patrol burst into the Central American University and murdered six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter. Some of the victims were executed lying face down on the ground. Human rights groups were quick to accuse the US of aiding and abetting El Salvador's military regime. This was not an idle allegation.

POLITICS OF ASSASSINATION:
The Bloody Legacy of the US Army School of the Americas

They are taught--at US taxpayers' expense--to make war against their own people, to subvert the truth, silence poets, domesticate unruly visionaries, muzzle activist clergy, hinder trad...

in 1989, when a Salvadoran army patrol burst into the Central American University and murdered six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter. Some of the victims were executed lying face down on the ground. Human rights groups were quick to accuse the US of aiding and abetting El Salvador's military regime. This was not an idle allegation.

POLITICS OF ASSASSINATION:
The Bloody Legacy of the US Army School of the Americas

They are taught--at US taxpayers' expense--to make war against their own people, to subvert the truth, silence poets, domesticate unruly visionaries, muzzle activist clergy, hinder trade unionism, hush the voices of dissidence and discontent, neutralize the poor, the hungry, the dispossessed, extinguish common dreams, irrigate fields of plenty with the tears of a captive society, and transform paladins and protesters into
submissive vassals. Even if it kills them.

"SOA graduates include dictators and soldiers
implicated in gross human rights violations in Latin
America," says Kennedy. "[Continued operation of] this
facility suggests that the US has blessed such excesses.
The SOA costs [the US] millions of dollars a year and
identifies us with tyranny and oppression." In 1993 Kennedy
sponsored an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations Bill calling for an end to the training provided at the SOA. The measure was defeated. Reintroduced in 1994, the amendment was again rejected.

Founded in Panama in 1946--and relocated in 1984 to Fort
Benning when Panamanian President Jorge Illueca evicted it -- calling it "the biggest base for destabilization in Latin
America"--the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American and Caribbean basin soldiers. It has also produced some of the region's most despicable tyrants. The SOA is expected to
graduate about 750 students in 1995.

Fortunately they have not been interviewed. But the man who responds to the interview can let us imagine who thoses guys are, and they are still in power

Good first comment. Yes, I knew something of that SS massacre. In our civil war, Irish killed Irish, which is worse. For decades no one spoke about it and maybe for the better in the case of Ireland and Europe. We both seem to have progressed enough since to make the pain and sacrifice worth while. It's when there is no return or lesson learnt that the pain and suffering seems meaningless. That the USA is contemplation war with Iran makes the sacrifice of so many lives in Iran seem pointless.

Now Toulouse, thats another matter. Rugby cap...

Fortunately they have not been interviewed. But the man who responds to the interview can let us imagine who thoses guys are, and they are still in power

Good first comment. Yes, I knew something of that SS massacre. In our civil war, Irish killed Irish, which is worse. For decades no one spoke about it and maybe for the better in the case of Ireland and Europe. We both seem to have progressed enough since to make the pain and sacrifice worth while. It's when there is no return or lesson learnt that the pain and suffering seems meaningless. That the USA is contemplation war with Iran makes the sacrifice of so many lives in Iran seem pointless.

Now Toulouse, thats another matter. Rugby capital of France. Killer of Munster dreams. Trevor Brennan, one man assault squad. Ha ha. Although I'm a Leinster man born and bred, I attended boarding school in Limerick and played as an Inter-Provincialist for Munster. I suppose you expect Le Blue to win the World Cup this year? We're not playing well lately so it's up to you for Europe.