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almost two decades ago were in sierra leone was in the grip of civil war troops from nigeria were deployed to protect civilians but instead some of the peacekeepers turned on those they were meant to safeguard atrocities captured on camera by journalists or some more now that harrowing fruitage is central to an extraordinary legal company to get justice for the victims.

sierra leone west africa. in one thousand nine hundred eight in one thousand nine hundred nine nigerian peacekeepers murdered raped and tortured sierra leonean civilians. and got away with it. all. this footage of the nigerian peacekeepers i did up but it was filmed by a local cameraman sorious samura unbroke cost around the world seventeen years ago in a documentary called cry freetown. there was a silent majority sophie. the nigerians have been invited to protect civilians by the sierra leonean government which was embroiled in

a brutal civil war against rebel militia. but instead of being protectors many became butchers. after the end of the conflict in two thousand and two a united nations funded tribunals established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the civil war. but the nigerian crimes were ignored brushed under the carpet of history. after eighteen years of silence a team of international lawyers is reopening the case. file a story of saddam i believe this case representing victims that have suffered so much the case is being conducted by myself dr sharp a lot of getting draw out of malaysia about my brother abraham. from sierra leone

where did the case pro bono to do something for the victims. that. in q. one has seen in the united nations allegations of abuse. underline those. cases today. those cases. video evidence. no international mechanism has even attempted to. a case it's a request for us to put in place investigations. we know there's

a different. a different nigeria. i have every confidence that. may be possible. let me mansour a he was five years old when the nigerian peacekeepers otherwise known as echo came to his area and you will see that everybody. in for all the kids from the community in moore. or my studio. you don't leave me one and me to you my sister. will be on the pipeline. soon one boy will be ninety minutes from. the city boy are you

giving. me. any more need you will see this morning with me in. the morning early going to be then we wouldn't be on my sisters and. i'm not time of the motions me more me mommy daddy and me was your. sister as. soon as she said no they sending. me money to open to see that. you skipped it's me going out on mom so we. all need to move you can move in she she gets you in with you on my system. oh absolutely it's no use. and it's a lot singled out it's a life. long anymore anybody alive what was your mom got.

on my system. you only saw what us against you. in december one thousand nine hundred eight as the civil war raged in the provinces there were rumors of an imminent rebel attack on the nation's capital freetown. sorious samura was a local camera man living in the city for us we were living in the city we were just even in pump and in fear of the peacekeepers. the ones who were different in. that time. it was on the morning of the six don't general area one nine hundred ninety nine a friend of mine called on the phone and said the rebels are here i took the camera and from the window i started fim in the red arrows.

i just thought what was happening in my country needed to be seen it needed to be framed so i made a decision to step out. of the nine ten is what i feel what i saw what i witnessed and korean nobody. nobody. sees it in their own paltry. peacekeepers dildoes the complete. i think about it in these is meant to be. the supreme peacekeeping force. yeah i was now with the camera. team. that madness i was too confused i was just. not.

it will be all sixteen a. week. if i'm speaking. so denton inducer been the. name we send you know each something to making will buy a. saw. cinema. for the nuts and. it's more so when we. see. what's in a being it's only him. into name and now we see them teaming. with most things in. a tele and soon see a nurse into it with its own.

eyes saw the soldiers are choosing the force to form between one guard. the other are ours our soul they are the gown does begin i mean that you get out of going up i don't got out. he was desperate we cry i am motorable please don't kill me. you know it was out but not in i would out of course not. i know you people would think in water you just turn and theme but had no choice not not was not a mob rule. and.

i just kept that shot. with people in c. i'm. consumed with the me if. i know what's up and what a fun. one do with people nothing. an employee does a fee and even puts these lives on. a sell. out as this is. not new to me and i'm not in ca. if you know. people to me so i thought the thing. it took this. i'm not big on the begun to miss if. we are foreseeing. straight away there were guys

started by the will barrel and with the boys still kicking in deep took him into the wee peril. the boy begging for his back home and within minutes to be thrown here in a big must grieve a lot of family members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and the dog yeah he's in the same source he paid a death price at the hands of peace keepers. the special called for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war. sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors at the court and he is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice

a special court didn't have to stick. nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened. and it's been probably the easiest cases to prosecute and we did it was just talking peace science. and victims of economic crimes. eighteen years of combined eighteen years of inaction against these nigerian troops despite the most compelling evidence any prosecutor could possibly have that competition rated. over sixteen seventeen years i have this tapes here if you're sly bear you know got three doors armed kept you know thinking we seen somebody should just. do something about this. when the call came from karim and shamila i was excited to find them this

tapes are going to be useful these tapes are going to be used in a court of law to actually bring. some of these people to our county i base. we're collecting the evidence you will be its needs and. what we can do to assist you nobody has tried that unical moves who is who are to did to these. those guys we are very inhuman. you treated me like a beast. right now i don't know how. to turn. them on on me own to go. maybe.

he's walking. or a bath and they felt. they would spectators of justice. and instead of just skipping through a little cracks of justice i think those cracks became a gaping hole. even if it's twenty years later we are reopening this issue. then you knock into the army they are going what's up in the rig a call walking come and go and when the us needs shoot no question if i am the one else will when i'm your last one sworn in a scene i keep thinking in your mind it's akin to say we need more you need more. but the only let me give beatty. as i am. up till now

and if it's made out between him it's me. if you've been on the one we're up to now . it's on odds he said it was monday on the show he said it all meal in the woodward book i'm gonna see most things. like everyone asked me to. body fluids there are no boobs. i think because your back i will use or they will cue my. next this. can continue providing us with my car cuts under my last goodbye. about within one. hour she still had lived that long but i just. it went on for hours. and only talk a little maybe talk to me see to cough just. suck. it you

can assist. see spirits. suck. seeing that level of punishment being destroyed to your mother and can't you can do anything that's in the us more lock. in by the waterside. this was going to my mom let me off. listen i want to buy the guns and this is. so i see that we're looking to the last it was no more than just wish they said earlier five you see that i said and i have a lot of life. so and also about what michael moore. i don't know. as a witness in the case sorry a s'more a trouble to the hague in october twenty seventh team to provide his testimony. in

my preparation to come and talk to there. you know i took that journey again town memory lane and there's some of the thinks. he owns. it's traumatic but. for me it's a few days what these people who saw their loved ones really been brutalized mordred of the old eyes they're going to leave it for ever. even if we can register in the consciences of the powers that be that something like these should move a whole bunch to. so if you don't mind do you want to start from the baby. because she knew me i was

a weird breed i said i'm such you know these guys. work said he should be taken out to. kill him was what i heard. you say you know you were most good this he didn't finish instead he walked away from the camera. that's. all over there thank you. thank you. you can hear. it well of course he's ok.

i should have saved someone disguise. i struggled i struggled with peace i would beg them to for he for me perhaps. i hope you understand. because. he had one hundred t. shirt but no brief no trials us so they brought him rights to where the bullets were he team and you put him there you know good. as the way it was he screamed. before even touching me you know you could see that. there are something weird i've faced mets mornings in nine hundred ninety six. i thought

he had given up going into a fight i made some he said he found me in the guts that. he was outside with i meant that the ability. to was just like some desperate being i don't know what's going on around him we had no idea that it's because he can't talk. what was to come. when the poor boy. he went out for all the rules for these. at the family would not go out. like the echo mall we have very intense you find in a lot area. these same decided to get roses back on the back of that truck and this guy's where paunch in the sides you know we do is boots kid he's side when will fall slow big you know everyone was shocked. to see how

he was choked child this is a boy who. should be shot that type of punishment. on that smaller boy. its own forgivable. belief that the nigerian perpetrators will be directly targeted by the case has sustained sorious through his dealings with the legal team. but now he his the case is taking a different path. over the last twelve months we've gone through the videos of cyrus mora we've conducted investigations on the ground in nigeria up in sierra leone. witnesses being spoken to statements of being taken and we're now in a position to put for the night claims i tried last year to file a case in nigeria and they wrote back and said no they only had jurisdiction on the

territory of nigeria so we were confronted with a problem how to obtain redress we decided the first course of action that was compelling was the one that saw the sierra leone government to do what a state should do which is to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of its citizens and as one of the relief sought in that claim is for the state to start a proper accountability process because the state in charge of one force would they have international standing to make requests to other states and so they are in a privileged position. this is going to be difficult for all of us i didn't sign off going to be only a student. government initially what i agreed to work on the suit being got this case against him nigerians and the media i don't think. it is a syrian government we should learn from it you have to go for it you and the

soldiers. it is our hope that is going to this process that there be criminal investigations and criminal cases further down the line in relation to the perpetrators that appear on the videos that have been named in the statements. but the important thing really is after all these years to start with a claim before a court. in a case that we say well founded. maybe technically the boy is. seen and this is the best we tend to speak but for me. i don't think it's right to susannah them at all i personally don't believe that i would give every day sixty seven government nigerian government nigerians or just yes any time. as more is a fundamental of my fundamental responsibility is to provide objective legal advice to the clients. and it is to try to obtain redress for those clients according to

the law and will use every legal option in australia to put forward the best case for those victims to three represent these days he says they come to this is very difficult this is a position that. i wasn't thinking i was going to be. tomorrow we are going to be filing. their cases for you before the supreme court and we are asking the supreme court to. give you the address in the last nineteen yes you have been forgotten you are an example of what happened to many many many people unfortunately we can't promise you will win this case but we're trying our best we've spoken to you we've investigate we have done a lot of work we pray that the law will protect and address what happened but it's a really worthwhile case so i'm really honored to be representing each and every

one of you. the legal case is now with the supremes court of sierra leone and the lawyers await its response the government of sierra leone must decide if it's going to. fight the case all respond to the month that they take on responsibility for establishing a process of accountability for crimes committed by nigerian peacekeepers almost two decades ago. we also the nigerian army to respond to the issues raised by this film we have not yet had a reply. were

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a so war dot com. the northern philippines feels the full force of typhoon monkhood it is now storming towards southern china while tropical storm florence floods the united states east coast as well. everyone i'm come all santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera now says latest supercool mission is to keep a close eye on the earth's melting icecaps detained in egypt two sons of the former president hosni mubarak over the sale of a major bank. in ten years since the collapse of the lehman brothers investment bank triggered the worldwide financial crash who's still paying the price today.

for the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year has killed at least twelve people and left a trail of damage now it is heading across the south china sea towards hong kong and southern china what began as a super typhoon did lose some of its sting after it landed on the largest island in the philippines roofs were ripped off flimsy homes and power lines were downed as well thousands of people were moved from low lying areas jamila island duggan is there for us she saw what happened in the northern province of congo young. we are in one of the areas first there and. the super typhoon this is about an hour from to get out of city but at says is really quite difficult communication and power lines have been cut off but on our way here we bumped into

a truck of marine officers several have been seriously injured started them being brought to the city in ambulances by volunteers. the situation in baghdad was similar basically all across the region of luzon hours after the typhoon made landfall the governments of the national and local government have yet to really assess the full impact of this typhoon that is because many of these areas are in rural areas such as this one we've spoken to civilians who have lost their homes or have lost their livelihoods and they know basically that life will set them back even further they already went through something similar two years ago and it's taken them time to recover they see what they want right now is emergency relief help food medicine and power well now the chinese government has issued its second highest storm alert is time for among.