Sunday, February 17, 2008
Honduras by Kayla Wilmoth
Lisa Sullivan wrote an article about a woman named Bertha and her husband who was dragged from their home in Honduras by fived armed men. Bertha organized for them to visit Honduras which is one of the leading countries sending troops to SOA. One of the most feared death squadsinall of Latin America is founded in Honduran SOA graduates. On April 3, 2006 a federal judge in Miami ordered Colonel Juan Lopez Grijalba, a former military intelligence chief from Honduras and a graduate of the School of the Americas, to pay $47 million to torture survivors and relatives of civilians murdered by Honduran military forces in the early 1980s. He was responsible for torture, extrajudicial killings and disappearances in the Central American nation. I am glad to hear that they are fighting against these school in Latin America. This problem is frustrating and needs to be taken care of.
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Good job on finding information on Honduras. I find it very interesting that a judge in Miami was able to order a perpetrator of war crimes to pay a least a small amount of compensation to victims of atrocities.
very good job...thats interesting that hondorus sends the most people to the SOA.
Im surprised to learn the Honduras sends the most people to SOA. You have alot of good information.
Wow, it's very surprising at how much the SOA comes into play when it comes to Honduras. It's also surprising and frustrating that they are paying that kind of money to do these terrible things to people. Good information and good report.
Great job. Used lots of details. Honduras seems to contribute greatly to the SOA, but is that a good thing?
Kayla, you need to do a better job in editing your writing for grammar and other errors. - When I hear of stories like this, what comes to mind is the pain of the individuals and the family survivors. I think, "What if that happened to members of MY family?" Real humans - not just statistics!
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