Pentagon Program Trained Foreign Torturers & Rapists
Foreign officers who attended top Pentagon schools were later accused of rape, murder, genocide, and coups, according to State Department reports.
The Defense Department trained at some of its top schools at least 17 high-ranking foreigners who were later convicted or accused of criminal and human-rights abuses in their own countries, according to a series of little-noticed, annual State Department reports to Congress.
Those singled out in the disclosures included five foreign generals, an admiral, a senior intelligence official, a foreign police inspector, and other military service members from a total of 13 countries, several of which endured war or coups.
Several officers committed crimes within a few years of their training. Others committed crimes more than a decade later. Many of the officers were described in the reports as leaders or participants in high-profile scandals and conflicts in their countries—including extrajudicial killings in Colombia, torture during Nepal’s conflict against Maoists, and murder during a Bolivian internal conflict, according to the State Department reports.
A senior Congolese military officer who attended a year-long program at the U.S. Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, in 2007, for example, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last September for participation in “violent intimidation” of opposition political candidates, including death threats that prompted some of the candidates to withdraw.
The Defense Department’s training was partly intended to instill democratic values and respect for human rights, but at least 13 of the 17 were subsequently arrested or charged in their home countries for crimes such as genocide, murder, and rape, according to the reports, one of which was labeled as “Sensitive but Unclassified.” Others named were accused of torture or murder by civil and criminal courts, human-rights lawyers, or government investigators, but continue to work in their official capacity.
Among the Pentagon- and military-run schools they attended, from 1985 to 2010, were the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, the U.S. Army Engineer School in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and others.
Independent analysts, lawyers, and human-rights experts say the actual number of U.S. foreign military trainees who committed human-rights abuses and other crimes is almost certainly higher than 17, in part because the State Department reports to Congress—required under obscure language inserted into a military assistance bill in 2002 that may soon be removed—only encompass one of the more than 50 U.S. training and defense assistance programs.
At least 33 other foreign military officers who received U.S. military and police training later committed human-rights abuses, according to a separate tally by researchers at the nonprofit Center for International Policy, who based their tabulation on U.S. and foreign press accounts of incidents of violence or abuse involving foreign government officials.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...rogram-trained-foreign-torturers-rapists.html
( I guess they got there trainees from the Bill Clinton school of democrazy )
trump is right
get home and stay home
you will be happier and so will everyone else too
...and maybe they could take the money the US will save and drop the price of beer for everyone
Foreign officers who attended top Pentagon schools were later accused of rape, murder, genocide, and coups, according to State Department reports.
The Defense Department trained at some of its top schools at least 17 high-ranking foreigners who were later convicted or accused of criminal and human-rights abuses in their own countries, according to a series of little-noticed, annual State Department reports to Congress.
Those singled out in the disclosures included five foreign generals, an admiral, a senior intelligence official, a foreign police inspector, and other military service members from a total of 13 countries, several of which endured war or coups.
Several officers committed crimes within a few years of their training. Others committed crimes more than a decade later. Many of the officers were described in the reports as leaders or participants in high-profile scandals and conflicts in their countries—including extrajudicial killings in Colombia, torture during Nepal’s conflict against Maoists, and murder during a Bolivian internal conflict, according to the State Department reports.
A senior Congolese military officer who attended a year-long program at the U.S. Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, in 2007, for example, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last September for participation in “violent intimidation” of opposition political candidates, including death threats that prompted some of the candidates to withdraw.
The Defense Department’s training was partly intended to instill democratic values and respect for human rights, but at least 13 of the 17 were subsequently arrested or charged in their home countries for crimes such as genocide, murder, and rape, according to the reports, one of which was labeled as “Sensitive but Unclassified.” Others named were accused of torture or murder by civil and criminal courts, human-rights lawyers, or government investigators, but continue to work in their official capacity.
Among the Pentagon- and military-run schools they attended, from 1985 to 2010, were the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, the U.S. Army Engineer School in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and others.
Independent analysts, lawyers, and human-rights experts say the actual number of U.S. foreign military trainees who committed human-rights abuses and other crimes is almost certainly higher than 17, in part because the State Department reports to Congress—required under obscure language inserted into a military assistance bill in 2002 that may soon be removed—only encompass one of the more than 50 U.S. training and defense assistance programs.
At least 33 other foreign military officers who received U.S. military and police training later committed human-rights abuses, according to a separate tally by researchers at the nonprofit Center for International Policy, who based their tabulation on U.S. and foreign press accounts of incidents of violence or abuse involving foreign government officials.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...rogram-trained-foreign-torturers-rapists.html
( I guess they got there trainees from the Bill Clinton school of democrazy )
trump is right
get home and stay home
you will be happier and so will everyone else too
...and maybe they could take the money the US will save and drop the price of beer for everyone
