Torture Survivor Speaks Out: Journey for Justice tour stops in Austin

The caravan Journey for Justice is coming to Austin to denounce the role of the School of the Americas--a notorious combat training facility in Fort Benning, Georgia for Latin American soldiers--in the killing of Jesuit Priests on November 16, 1989, and a series of other human rights abuses. Graduates from the School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, have been linked to various forms of torture, murder, assassination and rape. The tour is on its way to Fort Benning, Georgia for the annual vigil in front of the gates of the School of the Americas.

Carlos Maurico will speak on his experience as a torture survivor, escaping the grip of Salvadoran death squads during the civil war in the 1980s and taking those responsible to justice.

For information on the upcoming march, visit: http://soaw.org/