Thousands Protest Ga. Military School

Sunday November 19, 2006 11:01 PM


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By ELLIOTT MINOR

Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Thousands of demonstrators paraded, chanted and raised white crosses Sunday outside the Army's Fort Benning as they continued a 17-year-long effort to close a military school they blame for human rights abuses in Latin America.

``This is about men with guns,'' said the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Catholic priest who spent five years as a missionary in Bolivia and founded the group SOA Watch in 1990 in the effort to close the school.