Campus Ministry Remembers the Victims of the SOA

This Thursday, over 70 students, faculty, and staff from Saint louis University will be traveling to Columbus, Georgia for the annual School of the Americas (SOA) vigil and protest.

The SOA, which has since been renamed WHINSEC, is a military training program for Latin American soldiers located at Fort Benning, a US army base. Graduates have been implicated by many human rights organizations, as well as the UN, in human rights abuses and assassinations in Latin America, including those of Bishop Oscar Romero, four American missionary women in El Savlador, the massacre in the town of El Mozote, El Salvador, and the murders of the Jesuits and their co-workers in San Salvador in 1989.

Next week, campus ministry will be holding several events on campus to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the deaths of the Jesuit martyrs in El Salvador and to raise awareness about the SOA. Everyone in the SLU community is invited to attend.

For more details, check out the events page here on SLU Connection or Campus Ministry’s website.

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