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To: StormRider who wrote (1469)	4/15/2002 2:53:34 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

Great article. America created this beast. Tom

To: StormRider who wrote (1469)	4/15/2002 2:56:34 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

America's terrorist training school: soaw.org In 1999, the United Nations Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) released a report documenting human rights violations in Guatemala during its 36-year internal war. This report charges the Guatemalan government with waging a campaign of "genocide" against the indigenous population, and cites the Guatemalan security forces as being responsible for 93 percent of the human rights abuses that resulted in more than 200,000 deaths and "disappearances." The report also singles out the kind of training offered at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) as having "had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation." Earlier this year (2000) President Portillo of Guatemala cited 2 officers in the bludgeoning death of human rights champion Bishop Juan Gerardi. Col. Lima Estrada, one of those cited, is an SOA gradute. The aggressive, racist plot of the government against the indigenous population included the massacre of entire communities, resulting in the complete elimination and massacre of at least 626 communities. The vast majority of those tortured and killed were Mayan. Torture, assassinations, and scorched-earth genocidal tactics were not aberrations or the work of rogue sadists in remore places. They were committed as a specific strategy, as part of a counterinsurgency campaign in which such acts of savagery were used systematically by the armed forces to incite terror, humiliation, and suffering. soaw-ne.org