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SOA Watch Founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois Speaks on US Human Rights Abuses (Part 2) listen

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Tags: SOA Watch, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Pax Christi, WHINSEC, School of the Americas, torture, Maryknoll

For the last two decades Fr. Roy Bourgeois has been working to shut down the notorious School of the Americas, or SOA, now known as WHINSEC.

The US Army facility in Fort Benning, GA has trained some 60,000 Latin American military personnel in counter insurgency and torture since it opened in 1946. Its list of graduates includes some of the world’s most notorious human rights abusers. Speaking to a packed house at Lakewood United Church of Christ i...

SOA Watch Founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois Speaks on US Human Rights Abuses (Part 1) listen

Listen to this entire show:

Tags: SOA Watch, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Pax Christi, WHINSEC, School of the Americas, torture, Maryknoll

Close to a hundred people packed the small Lakewood United Church of Christ in St. Petersburg Friday night to listen to a man who has spent the last two decades working to shut down the School of the Americas, or SOA, now known as WHINSEC. The US Army facility has trained some 60,000 Latin American military personnel in counter insurgency and torture since it opened in 1946. Its list of graduates is a veritable who’s who of some of the world’s most n...