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was added to the nest goes world full tool heritage list in 20. 19, shortly before the started the 2 big 19 hands and ended their up next report from bangladesh on l. soldiers from the unit accused of murder and torture, become un peacekeepers. unlike the local, i'll be back with more news at the beginning of the next. now the ones move for a robot vacuum. one giant leap for exploiting the ocean floor. cutting edge technology is i'm looking the potential of deep sea mining. but this time, a research team will study the possible risk sucks in order to minimize that,
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we have an opportunity to get it right before we do stuff. environmental activists of skeptical rules fail billions to be made out to talk commentary deep. the greed dots june 7th on dw, the their cold wind countries defend into war and turmoil. un peacekeepers often the last bastion to protect civilians. when states fail, successful peacekeeping requires the highest standards of conduct by all are united nations peacekeepers, both cvn and uniforms. but what do we really know about those who are sent to bring peace? we get some really printing use this troops as a pretty broad ones as well. that with this investigation,
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we can reveal that at least 2 countries, some peacekeepers that were implicated and torture and murder back home. i better weakness through multiple extrajudicial beginnings, including cold blooded and the un seemingly turned a blind eye. this is in tennessee written lodge, and nobody has done anything to stop that. the we're in the dash with nearly 6000 peacekeepers deployed world wide. it's one of the largest contributors of troops to un missions. here at bangladesh is un training grounds. soldiers prepare for their next deployment. as peacekeepers
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or visit is carefully orchestrated, at no time are we allowed to speak with any soldiers directly. instead, their superiors answer our questions about you end to point on this as a matter of pride for us. and we have an almost people willing to contribute in a matter of pride, but also a lucrative one. un peacekeepers receive higher salaries than they do back home and the un reimbursed as countries for their equipment. according to government officials here, bangladesh has received more than $2500000000.00 us dollars over the past 23 years . as a mission over the past k 1st, i can assure you that we will all this be the queen, can contribute to introduce, keeping up yourself in us. but the image, the generals, are so carefully trying to present during our visit is only one side of the story. as for years,
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human rights groups and political leaders have warned of wide spread abuse by bangladesh and security forces, the exact entities that make up the peacekeeping forces. and one group is of particular concern. the rapid action battalion, wrapped in a wheat force founder to fight terrorism and crime. in 2023, we revealed what the government continues to deny the rabbit murders of ducts and tortures with the complicity of the highest political levels. the after their student and rad officers are often sent on highly paid you and deployments. as a former rob commander confirmed to us, he was personally involved in human rights abuses and later deployed to un mission . out of that come with as far as i know,
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everybody goes to peacekeeping often having served and robin for months. we tried to verify his claim. military sources helped us get in touch with another former rob officer who is willing to talk to us the i am deployed as basically, but he had his mike, you an identity guard. this is a sketch of a video confession demand recorded for us while on admission in africa. we corroborated his identity, but his condition for talking to us was that he remains anonymous. why instead of being add to that prediction, bethany and i be able to witness to multiple exposure to show giddings, including cold blooded getting up, say about a young man after the blood heat. he's got some blood and brain fragments, especially on my uniform un peacekeeping missions. cannot have him amongst them offices who may have been sponsible for these kind of very
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serious abuses that defeats the purpose of peacekeeping. we went to copenhagen to meet a man who on behalf of the un, looked into human rights abuses by ben. good actually security forces. my name is hans moultrie. i was a member of the committee against georgia and prophets here on the dish. motivate and the other committees experts were appointed by the us. the report on bangladesh published in 2019 stated, they were gravely concerned about rabbits of uses. the recommendation was that the former and current members of wrap it should not be allowed to as to do a service in peacekeeping operations. so in 2019, there was
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a clear recommendation to exclude members of rob. and what happened after the report was published. as far as we could tell, nothing, we checked officers, social media accounts and analyze hundreds of photos, and found more men who went from rob to peacekeeping. the pacified military personnel files. and you end deployment lists helped us identify more than 40 former rob officers who are deployed after the committee's report was published. the 3 of them worked for rob instruments, intelligence spring, to even as deputy directors are sources confirmed that the intelligence spring supports killing operations and runs a secret network of torch yourselves. hidden deep within many of rob's compounds
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there cuz i will come a funny little sound. sounds have equipment, but won't avoiding radicals. this method was a therapy job. it can be used to make people talk with have a little bit of pressure. so these men who are part of a unit that routine the tortures. why didn't anyone stop them from the coming peacekeepers? generally, it is up to the countries that send troops to select and that the majority of them but after several sexual abuse scandals involving peacekeepers, the un in 2012 implemented a new human rights policy. governments now have to certify that nominated soldiers have not committed any criminal offense or any violation of international human rights law or international humanitarian law. so for each of these 5 men who are most likely implicated in serious abuses, bangladesh must have signed this form. what is happening right now is that they are
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asking an abusive government to then decide which offices are abusive or not. now since we know that there is no accountability, make kind of them or even an interest in holding people to accomplish who will dice violations. that process is not working. confronted with our findings, un peacekeeping, any our roads? we do not have the resources to review the information of all personnel deployed and the vast majority of troops perform well. this thing good us with seemingly able to circumvent the policy, might other countries be doing the same? in london, we met this woman who's been exposing human rights abuses for years. and for us has harrison. i run the industrial truth and justice project, which is an organization that collects evidence around the end of war, post for violations, for lanka. her laptop is full of photos and testimonies that document the
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atrocities committed during 3 long. because decades one civil more person alerted us, took this photo, the man pointing out the bodies as general sher vendor of silva. she commanded an intimacy unit that the un says committed war crimes. never the last 10 years later, the sri lankan government promoted shandra silver to a top position of arm each. as such, he was responsible for the deployment of hundreds of peacekeepers following an international outline. the you went, announced it with suspension, launch an army deployments except for where a suspension would expose you went operations to serious operational risk. so the one left the door open and indeed almost nothing changed. the
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one's own figures showed that in 2019 sri longest and 687 peacekeepers. and one year after silver's appointment, it was still sending 665 trips. can you imagine would that slight for victims of the civil war if the violation sent to see that? and this is interesting to see written lodge and nobody has done anything to stop that. if i stayed in the u. n, i probably wouldn't let this be this frank and to say we get some really pretty useless troops as a pretty brutal ones as well. during our research, we talked to many sources within the u. n. but this former official in berlin was the only one willing to go on the record. my name is angela gilmore. i was the you and assistance. i just got off the human rights from 2016 to 2019 as such,
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g as 1st hand knowledge of what happens when the u. n. pressure countries to exclude a legend, human rights spacers, the one country that was really important. literally said okay, we're going to pull out or together under the u. s. equity general at that time to go basic to that country in that sense. apologize of that as they otherwise, like for you, empty supervision is, would have collapsed if you wouldn't tell us which country and stressed that the un does what it can. but it's testimony points to one thing. when it comes to peacekeepers, the u. n. is seemingly susceptible to blackmail. there's a reason for this face with often deadly emissions. many governments have posed their troops out of peacekeeping. operations are leaving the supplying of troops to countries like bangladesh, pockets on egypt or china. many of which are known to have abuse of security forces
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to reflect situations where literally thousands of people could be killed in the absence or even peacekeepers. which when you have to balance things, perhaps sending 2 or 3 bad apples is or less bad option. then thousands of people getting killed as close as shocking admission, isn't it sending 2 or 3 bad apples? i mean, let's look at what the bad apples from shalanda has done. it will obviously be very difficult to face in the piece that such a mission would create. wish a cat who goes abroad is a peace keeper because they go in on name. the high time of the automobile is turning the w dog. the car has been
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