Action Alert

SOA Watch Advisory

On Monday, March 29 representatives from School of the Americas Watch will hold a briefing on Capitol Hill to present startling new research that points to the ineffectiveness of cosmetic reforms that were made to the school in 2001. Despite claims by U.S. Army officials that the School of the Americas (WHISC) has reformed and that atrocities by its graduates are a thing of the past, this new research clearly demonstrates that the school continues to spend US tax dollars to train known human rights abusers. These new findings also raise serious questions in regards to the nature and efficacy of the training done at the SOA/WHISC and its subsequent disregard for the continued human rights atrocities committed by graduates of the school.

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