Reply #46: more proof

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According to Representative Martin Meehan (D-Mass.), "If the School of the Americas held an alumni association meeting, it would bring together some of the most unsavory thugs in the hemisphere."

El Salvador is only part of the School's story. According to Newsweek Magazine, August 9, 1993, "A Newsweek investigation of the School of the Americas turned up hundreds of less than honorable graduates--some of them petty thugs, some of them top military brass. At least six Peruvian officers linked to a military death squad that killed nine students and one professor at a university near Lima last year were graduates of the school. Four of five senior Honduran officers accused in a 1987 Americas Watch report of organizing a secret death squad called Battalion 316 were trained there. Last year a coalition of international human rights groups issued a report charging 246 Colombian officers with human-rights violations; 105 were school alumni."

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Last year Representative Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations Bill to eliminate Department of Defense funding to the School of the Americas. The intent of the amendment was to close the School, which Mr. Kennedy said, "cost millions of dollars a year and identifies us with tyranny and oppression."

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