SOA Watch Rallys Activists to Demand End to US School of 'Assassins' teleSUR
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Father Roy Bourgeois, front center, joins others in marching Sunday at the SOA Watch protest at the gates of Fort Benning.  (Mike Haskey/Ledger-Enquirer)

Members of more than 50 human rights groups and organizations gathered Sunday at the gates of the controversial United States Military School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia state to denounce the SOA and call for its closure as part of a three-day event.

The event against the controversial school was organized by a group called SOA Watch and was joined by members of Veterans for Peace organization branch in the state, as well as other local organizations.

Calling it the “School of Assassins”, hundreds were seen at the gates of the SOA as they demanded its closure.

The institution - which is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - has a long history of providing military training to U.S.-allied Latin American nations in counter-insurgency operations against left-wing movements.

Following the rally to the gates of the institution, protesters tuned in for a stage musical performance followed by speakers, musicians, Indigenous blessing and nonviolence guidelines at the gates of the SOA.

Father Roy Bourgeois, the founder of SOA Watch, said Sunday that the school is now training U.S. border patrol agents, using the same dehumanizing tactics.

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