Macbeth wrote:
And the SOA/ Fort Benning is what exactly?
edit: Post google... SOA trains foreigners in American military style, and that makes it a School For Assassins?
Amnesty International wrote:
For example, in September 1996 the US Department of Defense released evidence that the US-run School of the Americas for Latin American officers had used so-called "intelligence training manuals" between 1982 and 1991 that advocated execution, torture, beatings and blackmail. The US manuals, written in Spanish, were used to train thousands of Latin American security force agents. Copies of these manuals were distributed in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Guatemala. No US laws were broken in the preparation, distribution and use of these materials. As a result no one has been held accountable for the development and use of the manuals. Indeed US officials even refused to discipline those responsible for producing or using these manuals on the grounds that there was no "deliberate attempt to violate" US policy.
From this
source.
Macbeth wrote:
Does that not mean that ALL American military officers are trained to be cruel murdering bastards with no respect for human rights, as they have the same training too?
If you are right, if US officers do get the same training, it is worrying. But perhaps you noticed there is no claim that ALL officers trained in the School of the Americas took part in human rights violations. I have only seen claims that many SOA graduates have been found to have done so, and that part of the training encourages them. That is a different claim from the one you make.
07 Jan 2009, 10:15 pm
