SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
In late 1996, a national scandal erupted when Defense Department
officials admitted to the existence of a "torture manual" used to
train officers of some of the most abusive regimes in Latin America.
But this was only the latest in a log series of revelations
surrounding the activities at the infamous School of the Americas at
Ft. Benning, Ga. In "School of Assassins", author Jack
Nelson-Pallmeyer documents the hidden reality of a school that has
left a trail of suffering and death in every Latin American country
where its graduates have returned. In tiny El Salvador, SOA
graduates were responsible for the massacre of six Jesuit priests,
their housekeeper and her daughter, the assassination of Archbishop
Oscar Romero,the rape and murder of four U.S. church women, and many
other atrocities.
"School of Assassins" also tells the stories of the people of SOA
Watch who have petitioned Congress to stop funding the SOA, and have
been jailed for their protests against the school. With public
awareness growing and more people demanding that the school be
closed, grim lessons remain. The most outrageous is this: the
members of the SOA Watch have spent more time behind bars for their
nonviolent protests again the SOA than any of the murderers trained
there.
"This is the book we've been waiting for!" says Father Roy Bourgeois,
founder of the SOA Watch. "School of Assassins" is must reading for
everyone concerned with the U.S. policy in Central America, and the
challenges to democracy that it raises.
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