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GreenEarthAl Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 02:17 PM
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Alice Gerard's Trial: She crossed the line at the SOA/WHISC school in Nov.

http://www.allpowertothepeople.com/events/GGDFBII.shtml

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He asked me again if I had anything that I wanted to say before being sentenced. This time, I said "yes." I spoke about my feelings about a school that continues to operate, despite charges that its graduates have engaged in hideous acts of torture and assassination. I talked about my personal experiences in Guatemala. I talked about a classmate, Sister Dianna Ortiz, who was cruelly tortured two years after I left Guatemala. I talked about having visited the town of Santiago Atitlan and then finding out that, three years later, a terrible massacre took place there. In both instances, School of the Americas graduates were implicated in the crimes. I expressed my disappointment with a government that has, to this date, failed to establish an independent truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the training offered at SOA/WHINSEC or the behavior of the school's graduates.
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