SOA/ WHINSEC

House Votes to Publicize Names of Infamous School of the Americas Graduates

U.S. House of Representatives Votes 224:190 to Force the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC to Release the Names of Graduates and Instructors.

Washington, DC – the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to force the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - WHINSEC) to release the names, ranks, country of origin, courses and dates attended of students and instructors at the institute. >>>>>Rest Here

Keep Up the Pressure - Tell your Senator to Take a Stand for Human Rights and Transparency

More than embarrassing scandal:

Torture a War Crime requiring Accountability

A 4-Part report in recognition of tortured survivors and in memory of those murdered by torture. Torture Accountability Day: this Thursday, June 25th

Part 1 Torture Accountability - it’s a family affair

Disappearing citizens a la "School Of Assassins" (SOA) mode, torturing them, including children (even sexually), hanging people from ceilings, water boarding, sleep deprivation, slicing genitals, and raping are more than an embarrassing scandal. These are war crimes.................

Torture a War Crime Part II

Part II. Extraordinary rendition misleading term for kidnap and torture

Up to 80,000 kidnapped people have been 'through the system' since 2001, and 98% of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas are in secret prisons according to Clive Stafford-Smith.

Nature of the kidnapping-torture crime termed “extraordinary rendition” is organized and systematic, as a short testimonial video by Iceandfire and Reprieve reveals.

Executive order to ensure lawful interrogations peace train or FEMA train?............

"RESOLUTION: The Torture Song" By David Ippolito



The rally in Washington, D.C., on Torture Accountability Action Day, Thursday, June 25, 11 a.m., John Marshall Park.

More here: That Guitarman from Central Park

Close Down the School of The Americas Mr President

Our very own, embedded within, Terrorist Training Camp, with known graduates who went on to exactly that, Criminal Terrorism, within their own countries against their own fellow citizens!

Vera Leone: "They may have changed the school's name, but we are still seeing the same violent results"

Pablo Ruiz: "US tax dollars are used to train Latin American soldiers how to oppress their own people"

While the US commits 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, in part to seek out terrorist training camps, many in the US and Latin America are demanding that President Obama shut down what they believe is a terrorist training camp run on US tax dollars, the School of the Americas. One such person is Pablo Ruiz, who spoke to The Real News during his first-ever trip to the US, where, as a survivor of torture carried out by SOA graduates, he is laying out his argument for the immediate closure of the school.

Campaign to close the School of the Americas Pt.2

In recent years, one of the largest civil society movements in the US has been the movement to close the School of the Americas. Why? What is the connection between the school and the violence of today in Latin America? Pablo Ruiz and Vera Leone explain that even if they succeed in closing the school, there is plenty of work still ahead of them.

SOA Watch

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