This was done in Central America

[nadinbrzezinski]

some things I suspect we will soon see

Rape, methodical mind you, of children and wife's in front of detainees at insert prison here... and of this we know a little as we've heard rumors


the shooting of husbands for ahem refusing to cooperate

Mass punishments of small towns, were men, of military age, were separated from women and shot, or alternatively women raped in front of their families in the dead of night. More effective still in getting cooperation, raping daughters in front of their parents... about eleven twelve

This is not the first time

So you think this was not done by our people?

We just haven't heard of it.

I could give you names, but it would mean nothing

Suffice it to say, replace Ricardo for Ahmed, or Linda for Yaniah... same thing, different decade...

The chickens are coming home to roost...

[Jackpine Radical]

1. School of the Americas.

We may not have been the perpetrators of all that, but we taught them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I debriefed some of the vicitms, and took careful notes

their faces and their names still pursue me

Battalion 100... one of the worst collection of human beings ever put together

And I know they were ahem, supervised by one they called Agent Mike... we make the jokes here, but Agent Mike means CIA man

[EFerrari]

2. And it was massive. Everyone from there that I know

knows someone who got hurt or dead.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes it was

one of the stories is of a small town in El Salvador

The only two people to survive was an 11 year old girl and her mother

She was raped for three days, on and off, the kid that is

Mom was also raped... and then they left them for dead...

Hope the horror of this is enough for some folks here who still are going, but why should we prosecute?

And I can bet similar stories

that town was collectively punished for helping the guerrilla, not that they had a choice either, as the guerrilla also did their fair share

Civil wars ain't

[TBF]

4. It's about time this stuff comes out. And very important to give the perspective

that Iraq is not the first time this has happened.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I know but we are the blame america first crowd

:sarcams:

Time the American people learn why people around the world call us an Empire and at times don't like us very much

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Kick

[struggle4progress]

8. And not just in Central America ...

In Argentina: http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html
In Brazil: http://www.desaparecidos.org/brazil/victimas/listas/
In Chile: http://www.desaparecidos.org/chile/eng.html
In Colombia: http://www.desaparecidos.org/colombia/fmcepeda/genocidio-up/
In Paraguay: http://www.verdadyjusticia.gov.py/
In Peru: http://www.desaparecidos.org/peru/tort/eng.html
In Uruguay: http://www.desaparecidos.org/uru/eng.html

Caracazo: Four million bullets were shot against unarmed people
Caracas, Feb 27 ABN (Emma Grand).- Alexis went from Portuguesa state to Caracas on February 28, 1989. His mother had made him a desperate phone call because there was a rumor that day about that prisoners at the Remand of Catia (Venezuelan house of detention in the Catia suburb of Caracas) were being released to kill them at the entry of the remand center, in which her other son was serving time. They had heard of a great quantity of dead prisoners. “When I tried to get close to the remand, jointly to other people, in order to find out about our imprisoned relatives, we were shot at,” Alexis said. Then, he was to the Republic's General Attorney with his mother so as to look up his brother's name on the lists of people murdered in Venezuelan jails. Fortunately for Alexis and his mother, the name of their relative did not appear in the endless lists of dead prisoners. The thing is that in the midst of the affray, he preferred to not try to go out from the former remand, so he survived the massacre. Six years later, he was released ... http://www.abn.info.ve/noticia.php?articulo=171543&lee=17

RENDITION IN THE SOUTHERN CONE: OPERATION CONDOR DOCUMENTS REVEALED FROM PARAGUAYAN ‘ARCHIVE OF TERROR’
Washington D.C., December 21, 2007 – On the fifteenth anniversary of the discovery of the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, the National Security Archive posted Spanish-language documents that reveal new details of how the Southern Cone military regimes collaborated in hunting down, interrogating, and disappearing hundreds of Latin Americans during the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration, which became officially known as “Operation Condor,” drew on cross-border kidnapping, secret detention centers, torture, and disappearance of prisoners—rendition, interrogation and detention techniques that some human rights advocates are comparing to those used today in the Bush administration’s counterterrorism campaign ... http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/index.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. thanks for the valuable addition