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exiled they appoint. say if you all this. an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know the truth. and we do not think he is the. true change change return of the president on al-jazeera. almost two decades ago when sierra leone was in the grip of civil wall troops from nigeria were deployed to protect civilians but instead some of the peacekeepers turned on those they were meant to save. and trustees captured on camera by journalists or some more now that harrowing footage is central to an extraordinary

legal campaign 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 got 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 had been invited to protect civilians by the sierra leonean government which was embroiled in a brutal civil war against rebel positions 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 i believe this case representing victims that have suffered so much the case is being conducted by myself dr tshabalala getting drought of malaysia my brother abraham. from sierra leone the case pro bono to do something for the victims. that came in. i think you. one has seen in the united nations allegations of abuse. underline those. cases today. those cases. video evidence.

we have. no international mechanism has even attempted to. today this morning a case it's a request for us to put in place investigations. we know there's a different. a different nigeria is there a way. i have every confidence that. may be possible. lummy 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 the kids from the community in

moore. or my studio. you don't leave me one and me to you my sister. will be dealing with my mind. soon one more you will be ninety minutes from. here can. you see that morning it. may not be. any more me you will see this morning with me in. the morning early going to be then we would be on my sisters and. i'm not time of the motions me more me mommy daddy and it was your. sister as. soon as she said no they said no to. me mommy you know you see that.

you skipped it's me going up on mom so we. all need to move you can move in she she gets you into my system. oxidants you know just being honest. and it's a lot simple that's a life. long anymore anybody alive was your mom got. on my sister. you only feel sad about us again. 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 those six don't general area nine hundred ninety nine a friend of mine called on the phone and say 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 body. nobody. sees it in their own paltry. peacekeepers fills the block complete ok i

think a lot of it is these is meant to be. disciplined peacekeeping force. yeah i was now with the camera. team. that madness i was too confused i was just. not. it would be all sixteen a. week. if i'm in. sudan today and you saw bindi. make me. something to making. saw. cinema. for the nets and. it's more so

we're seeing. what's in a being it's only in. intern in the now we see the thing. almost in. a tele i saw was in a nursing home. i just saw the soldiers are the force to form between one guard. the other are ours our soul they're the gown does begin i mean and you kind of are going to look i don't got out. he was desperate we cry i am motorable please don't kill me.

you know it does not come out and i would out of course not. i know people would think in water you just turn and feed him but i had no choice no not not not not a mother. and. i just kept that shot. when people in c.m. . ensued seem to get that in the mean anything. and what's an m f n. one do the people nothing. and the 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.

and if in those. people to me so i thought the thing it took this. a noble and a big gun to miss if. we aforesaid. straight away there were guys time be invited to willy barrel and with the boy still kicking took him into the wee peril. the boy begging for his back home and within minutes to be thrown here and a big must grieve a lot of family members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and it all yeah he's in the same source he paid a debt price at the hands of peacekeepers.

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. over 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 can't

be tolerated. over sixteen seventeen years i have the steps here if you're sliding bear you know got three doors armed 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 by piece. we're collecting the evidence evaluating their lives and. what we can do to assist these youths and nobody has tried in that unical moves who is who he did to these. those guys we are very inhuman. you treated me like

a beast. regs now i don't know how. to turn. them on on me own to go to. the. us. who. is walking to school for a bath and they felt. they would spectators of justice. and instead of just skipping through little cracks of justice i think those cracks became a gaping hole. even if twenty years later we are reopening this issue. then you knock into the army are gone words are going be rid of walking come and go and

when the hour ask each no question if i have no one else will when i'm your last one sworn in a scene i keep thinking in your mind it's akin. to say william or you really mom. or the only let me give bt. i am. up till now and if it's made out between them it's me. if you've been on the run we're up to now. it's an odd season it was my getting on the shelf he said it all meal in the woodward book i'm gonna see most things. like everyone ask you to. be defeated see ron noble. i think because you back i will use or they will q my. next the. content of the body was moved by god so you know 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 luck is. in my view what a sad. 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 my last words on more than just wish they said

well you're five you see that i said and i have a lot of life. so an awful lot more than 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 this should never pull or push. so i got my one to start from the baby. because she knew me i was a weird breed i said i'm set you know these guys and she 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 and you. want to thank. you for you know. really because he's. i should have seen of some of his guys. i struggled i struggled with peace i would beg them to forgive me perhaps. i hope you understand. because.

he had one hundred t. shirt but no breath no trousers us so they brought him rights to where the bullets were he team and you put him there you go good. as the wave moves he screamed. before even touching me you know you could see that. there are something weird i have faced mets mornings in one thousand nine hundred six. i thought he had given up going into a fight i made some he said he found me in the gutter. 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.

on the echo mall we have very intensely find in our area. these same beside it to get roses back on the back of that truck and these guys were paunchy in the sides you know we do those boots kicking his side when we fall slugging you know everyone was shocked. to see how he was choked child this is a boy who. should be shot that type of punishment. but smaller boy. it's on 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 been 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 well 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 sought 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 meant that they have international standing to make requests to to other states and so they

are in a privileged position. this is going to be disclosed all of source i didn't sign off going to be only a student. government initially. agreed to work on the subpoena got this case against in nigeria with me i don't think. it is a syrian government we should learn from it you have to go for women and soldiers. it is our hope that ignited 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. see that this is the best we tend to speak but for me. i don't think it's right to

susannah government or i personally don't believe that i would give evidence or concerning government nigerian government nigerians or just yes any time. as moya's 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 the tree represent this is this is very very close to this is very easy going to suppose 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 investigated 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 really wanted to be representing each and every one of. 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 to day 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. the russian orthodox church is deep pockets in the rapid expansion may bear its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to sainthood president putin is our leader that given top people in power investigates how often it's attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the hall to the russian state the orthodox connection on al-jazeera.

hello i'm down jordan and the quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera in the philippines at least twenty five people have been killed by this year's most powerful typhoon monkhood wheaton slightly off it made landfall on the largest on of luzon in the early hours of saturday has left a trail of destruction in the northern province of gaia duggan is that. typhoon monk arrived just as predicted vicious with its force pounding over most of northern luzon the early hours saw power and phone lines cut off in the ghetto city in calgary and province incessant rains and strong winds crippled many of the operations planned by emergency teams. but the destruction here is nothing compared

to what we saw when we ventured out of the city. throughout rural communities we saw homes and farmland destroyed access into these remote areas is difficult which means eight may be slow to arrive to. like so many places here the town of bugout bore the brunt of the typhoon spirit marine commanders say many people here lost their homes. on. property and with crops in the power lines. we expect that be. over soon people here tell us they were aware of the forced evacuation order by the government but following it is easier said than done that is because often their homes and their livelihoods are just in one place and this is all.