CADU - Nukewatch Activists Imprisoned

Nukewatch Activists Imprisoned

CADU were saddened to hear that some of our friends at the US group Nukewatch had been arrested and imprisoned for trespass following an action at the US Army's notorious School of the Americas (SOA). Nukewatch are renowned for their actions at the US DU weapon manufacturer Alliant Tech Systems and many of them have faced prosecutors as a result.

The SOA trains soldiers and police forces from Latin America and its graduates have gone on to commit some of the Western hemisphere's worst human rights abuses over the last 50 years. SOA graduates killed six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador; undertook the theft of babies from Argentina's 'disappeared' and carried out civilian massacres in El Salvador.

Training manuals from the SOA show that it was teaching torture methods, many of which are now being used by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a display of blistering hypocrisy, the judgments were handed down a week after a US military jury decided not to jail a US Army interrogator who was found guilty of negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi prisoner.

We wish all those who have been unjustly incarcerated for highlighting US barbarity well, and keep up the good work.

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