Corvallis Gazette Times, OR
The protests began 14 years ago with a small group of demonstrators led by a Catholic priest who sat outside the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., in response to the murders of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. News reports claimed the killers were graduates of the School of the Americas, a U.S. military facility at Fort Benning that has trained Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency, drug interdiction and combat tactics since the 1940s.
Supporters maintain that the school has a strong record of human rights training, while opponents describe a litany of abuses committed by graduates. Protests have become an annual event at the school, and Corvallis activist Aleita Hass-Holcombe has been one of the demonstrators for the past five years.
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