This is a Great Oportunity to get rid of what is seen as a real disgrace
for the USA around all of Latin America. The School of the Americas
should become a thing of the past. It should definately stay in this
millenium and not transcend to the next.
Kenny Litzenberger
Antioch College
Yellow Springs, OHIO
On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, lemaitre monique j wrote:
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> Subject: Support for HR 2652
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> Dear Representatives:
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> I am writing to you to express my support for HR 2652 and
> to encourage you to vote in support of this important bill.
>
> HR 2652 would close the US Army School of the Americas and replace
> it with a United States Academy for Democracy and Civil-Military Relations.
> More
> than 57,000 members of Latin American military forces have taken courses at the
> US Army School of the Americas (SOA). Graduates of the SOA include some of
> Latin
> America's most notorious dictators and some its worst human rights abusers.
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> Unlike the United States, Latin American military forces are used within
> the country against the country's own citizens. This results in excessive
> force being used to quell demonstrations and the use of torture and extra-
> judicial executions against people working for social justice and human
> rights and journalists who expose their activities. Many of these
> countries, although democratic, do not have effective civilian control of
> the military forces, which often act independently of the government and
> with impunity.
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> Now that the Cold War is over, closing the SOA would send a signal to
> our Latin American neighbors that US support for brutal militaristic
> regimes has finally ended. Closing the SOA would also save US
> taxpayers millions of dollars.
>
> I respectfully urge you to vote for HR 2652. Please keep me informed
> of your decision on this matter.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Peter Rashkin
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