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Thousands
Protest
at
US
Army
School
of
the
Americas
12/4/98
Last week, as many as 7,000
people showed up at Fort Benning, outside of Atlanta, to protest the continued
operation of the Army's "School of the Americas" which is housed at the
base. The school, which trains specially selected personnel culled
from the militaries of Central and South America, is known to its detractors
as the "School of the Assassins". It counts among its 60,000 graduates
Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, former Argentine dictator Leopoldo
Galtieri, Haitian coup leader Raoul Cedras and Salvadoran death squad organizer
the late Roberto D'Aubuisson.
According to organizers,
more than 2,300 people risked arrest by entering the base. The protest
was by far the largest of the eight, which have been held annually since
1990. Last year, more than 600 people were arrested for entering
the base, and more than thirty of them served six month sentences because
it was their second such offense.
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Issue #69, 12/4/98
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