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Bolivians Say No to SOA
Representatives of 40 Bolivian
civil and social organizations
asked the government Thursday to
stop sending Bolivian military
for training to the US School of
the Americas/WHINSEC, known as
“The University of Assassins”.
The Human Rights Permanent
Assembly handed over five books
of signatures to legislators
Ivan Canelas and Leonilda Zurita,
rejecting training troops in
that US military center.
Canelas and Zurita recalled that
many officials, not only from
Bolivia, were trained in this
school and then carried out
bloody actions in their home
countries.
In the case of Bolivia, the
military repressed social
movements, for example in
central El Chapare in October
2003.
In 1996, the Pentagon published
training manuals used in the
School of the Americas, which
defended torture, extortion, and
individual and extrajudicial
executions.
Several nations, activist
groups, and members of the US
Congress have urged closing the
School of the Americas,
considered the greatest base of
Latin American political
destabilization.
According to denouncements by
civic organizations, hundreds of
thousands of Latin American were
displaced, tortured, raped,
assassinated, disappeared,
massacred or forced into
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