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Subject: Fwd: HR 732: To close the United States Army School of the Americas
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To close the United States Army School of the Americas. (Introduced in
the House)
HR 732 IH
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 732
To close the United States Army School of the Americas .
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 11, 1999
Mr. MOAKLEY (for himself, Mr. SCARBOROUGH, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. CAMPBELL,
Mr. VENTO, Mr. SHAYS,
Mr. SERRANO, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mrs.
MORELLA, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. NEAL of
Massachusetts, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. GEJDENSON, Ms. RIVERS, Mr.
SABO, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr.
WEYGAND, Mr. OLVER, Mr. TIERNEY, and Mr. FORBES) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To close the United States Army School of the Americas .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States Army operates a military education and
training facility known as the United States Army
School of the Americas , which is currently located at Fort
Benning, Georgia, and is used to train military
personnel of Latin American armed forces.
(2) The United States Army School of the Americas has a
history of abusive graduates, and the continued
operation of the school stands as a barrier to United States
efforts to establish a new and constructive
relationship with Latin American armed forces after the Cold
War.
(3) Closing the United States Army School of the Americas
would not prevent the United States from providing
appropriate training for military personnel of Latin American
armed forces.
(4) The United States Army School of the Americas is only part
of the United States' extensive training
relationship with Latin American armed forces, which
includes--
(A) the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the
United States Air Forces' Inter-American Air Forces
Academy, and the United States Navy's Small Craft
Instruction and Technical Training School ;
(B) courses taken by Latin American military personnel
with members of the United States Armed Forces
at numerous institutions in the United States; and
(C) training with some of the more than 50,000 members of
the United States Armed Forces who serve on
active duty in Latin America each year.
(5) Graduates of the United States Army School of the Americas
include some of the worst human rights
abusers in the western hemisphere, including--
(A) 19 Salvadoran soldiers linked to the 1989 murder of
six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her
daughter;
(B) two of the three officers cited by the Guatemalan
archbishop's office as suspected intellectual authors
of the killing of anthropologist Myrna Mack in 1992, as
well as three top leaders of the notorious
Guatemalan military intelligence unit D-2;
(C) one-half of the 247 Colombian army officers cited in
the definitive work on Colombian human rights
abuses, El Terrorismo de Estado en Colombia, 1992;
(D) 10 of the 30 Chilean officers against whom a Spanish
judge in 1998 requested indictments for crimes
of terrorism, torture and disappearance;
(E) El Salvador death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson;
(F) Panamanian dictator and drug dealer Manuel Noriega;
(G) Argentinian dictator Leopoldo Galtieri, a leader of
the so-called `dirty war', during which some 30,000
civilians were killed or disappeared;
(H) Haitian Colonel Gambetta Hyppolite, who ordered his
soldiers to fire on a provincial electoral bureau
in 1987;
(I) two of the three killers of Archbishop Oscar Romero
of El Salvador;
(J) 10 of the 12 officers responsible for the murder of
900 civilians in the El Salvadoran village El Mozote;
and
(K) three of the five officers involved in the 1980 rape
and murder of four United States churchwomen in
El Salvador.
(6) Despite sustained congressional and public pressure, the
United States Army School of the Americas has
implemented only limited reforms of its curriculum.
(7) The continued operation of the United States Army School
of the Americas continues to associate the
United States with the abuses of its graduates.
SEC. 2. CLOSURE OF UNITED STATES ARMY SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS .
(a) CLOSURE REQUIRED- Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the
Army shall close the military education and training facility known
as the United States Army School of the Americas
located at Fort Benning, Georgia.
(b) REPEAL OF STATUTORY AUTHORITY- (1) Section 4415 of title 10,
United States Code, is repealed.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 407 of such
title is amended by striking out the item relating to such
section.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ALL OTHER TRAINING OF FOREIGN
MILITARY PERSONNEL BY THE UNITED STATES.
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS- It is the sense of Congress that, in each
training activity undertaken by the United States
with foreign security forces, the Secretary of Defense (or any
other executive branch official who may be overseeing the
training activity) should--
(1) substantially increase emphasis upon respect for human
rights, the proper role of a military within a democratic
society, and accountable and transparent management of defense
and security policy; and
(2) vigorously implement Department of Defense regulations
regarding the screening of foreign candidates for
inclusion in the training activity to ensure that the United
States does not train individuals implicated in human rights
abuses, illegal drug trafficking, or corruption.
(b) TRAINING ACTIVITY DEFINED- In subsection (a), the term
`training activity' means any activity in which the
United States provides military education and training for foreign
security forces, whether conducted in the United States
or abroad, including international military education and training
under chapter 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.), international narcotics control
under chapter 8 of part I of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2291
et seq.), activities under section 1004 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 374
note), and activities under the major force program for special
operations forces of the United States.
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