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and founded his own game changing groups including return to forever he also worked alongside american pianist herbie hancock. korea's career spanned more than half a century just last year he released the double album plays which captured him at various concerts armed only with his piano. if you're trying to learn something and if you have to be the one who you have to be the one who wants to learn it he also launched an online academy where he could teach and share his passion for jazz. even after death korea could win even more grammys this march he's nominated for best improvised jazz solo and best jazz instrumental album. and a facebook post korea's manager confirmed that he died of a rare form of cancer he was 79.
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we've been doing it with the money but it's boy we bring you the stories in development the dramatically changing the world we live in argentina's congress is debating a bill seeking to raise millions of dollars from the super rich poor families hit by them and counting on al-jazeera. there was strategy is a late soldier is. the special air service is regiment. carried out operations in afghanistan. take a look back and say that we were the guys in there mattering in inviting not they to do something that is honorable now
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a soldier who was on these missions speaks out about watching so they die and he stands up and then goes oh my stark target practice so that's all you can shoot on a table and not call that night off on this episode of one o one east mark willacy investigates the culture of impunity among some of the strategy is special forces in afghanistan. afghanistan 2012 the brutal conflict was in its a live in fear. great in chapman was on his 1st deployment. to signals intelligence officer fresh out of training with the essay is he was struck
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by a country. i thought was a really beautiful country yes snowcat cakes where the river is where it was really draining into valleys and i used to site a paper it would be a great place for for driving an outdoor adventure if you didn't have all the wool . right in. men would get to see much of the beauty of afghanistan from a black hawk helicopter. he would also see much of the walls brutality during his deployment with the elite 3 squadron i say is. definitely a buzz of late isn't it as it is the best thing you can do if you create a kind of that unit. especially when your. a low rank and you're actually going to
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get to do a lot of hands on stuff you definitely feel confident with us i never once felt like i was going out i was on protected i never felt like i was we weren't going to get through it. he was great in chapman's job to find television targets by intercepting and tracking their communications. if we were going out on a mission where we were chasing a mobile phone target then i would be with other myself or the other signals intelligence operator would be with the teams and we'd be going in close and tracking that fine. within days of deploying with the s.a.'s in afghanistan right in chapman go to sense of what was to come during a conversation with one of the squadron senior soldiers was that the same benches
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him prepping my quit and he just kind of started some general and then he said to me i hope you're ready and prepared for this deployment because you need to make sure that your i carry with me putting a gun to someone's head and pulling the trigger because i don't want to read about it in 10 also is when i just think when you heard i knew it was a bit of a loose cannon anyway but at the time i was just kind of like. ok that's going to be. this is a highlights real of 3 squadrons 2012 rotation in afghanistan edited together and said to music by it's a a soldier's themselves and. it's among more than 10 hours of a say is footage captured by the soldiers on their own cameras.
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gives a rig limbs of the reality on the ground and how these elite special forces view themselves. which is a brotherhood forged by fire fights in the adrenaline of daily rage operations outside the wire. when we go in if we found a small case in an area and it was just in somebody's side we're attached to a house that often just a lot of on file or blow it and in on how much time they had and that would usually burn down the hassel blow out a wall. so not exactly a wife winning hearts and minds in your opinion. for your view of the earth. and often they greyed out the numbers of how many cars they blind up or dogs that shot was another one they're pretty quick to shoot dogs.
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and back to you for dogs. over time brought in chapman became disillusioned with the war and what the special forces were doing. we try and say that we're there to help and the taliban a bad but if we go in and we start destroying infrastructure or destroying their private vehicles and burning down their homes it doesn't really send the right message. as soon as i lave they're not going to help us any more they discount or run straight back to the taliban who usually are not doing that. right in chapman says the information the s.a.'s relied on to capture or kill the targets was often veg. we would get intelligence brace they would
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be saying stuff like you know the slang feed wearing afghani clothes just really basic descriptions of people unless they had a photo which they didn't always and more times than not they didn't so it could be anyone popular no idea who it is but most of the time it was a really simple descriptor. you know the average afghani man. for these trillions military the war in afghanistan was centered on one province. for 13 years these trains full to stabilize these poor and mountainous region losing 41 soldiers along the way. the special forces would do the vast bulk of the fighting and killing conducting fails and of operations.
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the fos majority of our special operations soldiers hallie professional and quite frankly remarkable men. partly trying to. men of high integrity who have done a very very demanding job for us in very arduous circumstances. was a military lawyer who advise special forces on the legality of their afghanistan operations i was involved in planning dian not for diatom operations and not some operations and there was always an element in the field. he told them who they could lawfully target and who they were forbidden to kill including people who had surrendered or wounded so would you say that these special forces knew about the rules of war intimately so there's no excuse for committing any sort of break the rules of engagement or any crime for that matter no excuse in terms of the training
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is provided in the understanding absolutely. just weeks into brayden chapman's deployment in early 2012 his patrol is going hunting. they're heading for a place called death row was their target the taliban bomb maker. the entire operation is captured on a helmet camera worn by one of the essay is soldiers on this raid. what this video reveals is a deadly firefight had to tell a band bunker that would go on to spark lethal retribution by one is a us soldier. i landed with one patrol all and as we came up i. had gunfire and then from there we could
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say that the patrol that was walking across the front of them on how it was getting shot at. when i came over the hill at the side just looked like little ants running everywhere trying to get away. this is they're accompanied by afghan special forces known as the world community these trains call them wakas. that patrol that came under fire they had a with them he was killed pretty much instantly and right in front of the entrance of the one a straight in soldier wants to throw in a thermal grenade and destroy the entire structure. leading the charges they say is operator who will cold soldier a naval as other soldiers came in to assist and that had grenades with them he was like give me the grenade and i was handing him over to him and he was finishing that off and he was telling everyone else to get back what was he so fired up
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a started that and he wanted to finish it. like. that. i'm not sure what his mindset is but it seems almost like a blood loss once you get to that stage. one soldier wants to get an attack helicopter to send a hellfire missile into the bunker to get into. soldier a then begins firing through a hole into the bunker. or. any. you know. soldier or a orders one of the essays corporals to throw in a thermal grenade. or exploit once you've got these them overnight and completely collapse them on and from there
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he just. chips frying. whole day one now on the foreign ones that it's time i go night went off those things turn your insides to jelly or tasty meal or the battle over the ac is made it dusty can finally get to the afghan soldier who's been shot at the front of the bunker. all. with the dust of battle still in the air members of the ac is patrolling the ridge above pools to reflect on the battle. where the couple all this option almost. half. the top. is called the good wall for all. it's. the conversation then switches to soldier i who led the assault on the bunker is it is
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. soldier a is apparently furious one of his f. game comrades is deed. it's what happens next on a patrol to catch a television target that may constitute a war crime if they so after we lost that work. is a few days lyda we went on another mission i was with that soldier it was his target we went in are confirmed that is afghani national was the target i was going through the rest of his equipment just to see what else he had and then that soldier with they were true nish they marched. that afghani national who was hard to invent he was the target they marched him. about 50 meters away also then the
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soldier ordered the. prison a scenario back on the ground he didn't motion for the 2 to shoot him. the soldier khana looked at him confused asking you know wondering what he's telling him today and then he did it again and then he understood what was happening and then the soldier ordered the worker initiated executed and so he just quit best striding to straight into his chest area. and killed him a few of the men and the man was handcuffed plastic cuffs he was still plastic after that stage and you witness this you can physically say this i could yeah and what does destroyed s.a.'s operatives. to this he said i had to give him away in. what do you mean by that because i just lost one of
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their members give them a win let them have something what are you thinking. at the time i was just like ok with executing people now. several weeks later braden chapman is again in a black hole caving out in a raid with soldier a who led the mud bunker assault and who ordered the killing of the afghan detainees. i was with his patrol again we're moving through a village we were coming off on the target building. i didn't see him walk out of that target building he was about 10 meters away from the walking from that direction across our position. when we got to within maybe 20 to 30 meters away and he saw ross. critically druggies find from his pocket and
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he threw it. and at that stage he stopped he put his hands up just like. and then just stood there. as we got closer to he in the soldier then just fired and hit him twice in the chest and then shot him through the head as he will. and then from there he just moved on so he shot a man in cold blood who had his hands up tricky. i was only 5 to 10 minutes behind him at the time and at the time always just like ok the visual image to me was the guy had his hands up and then it was almost like target practice so that's. what is that in your books in my books it's not a. just
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days later one of the essay is videos kept as members of 3 squadron discussing soldier a and other incidents involving the patrol. all all all the kids all. keep it all. just all. you can get into. it. all. rooms and allegations of war crimes committed by a strike in special forces were the subject of a wide ranging inquiry conducted by the inspector general of the strategy of defense force. we have obligations that use national law domestic war
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and indeed moral obligations to not ignore these sorts of allegations there is a potential for a prosecution under or certainly for charges to be lied under oath the war crimes murder provisions of the commonwealth criminal code. it's may 2012 and the soldiers of 3 squadron a say you say heading north from there by spawn to blackhawk helicopters. a distant nation is a village called a jealousy has some see the target is an insurgent bomb make up. the helmet camera footage you will seeing is from the a say is patrol dog handler and what you will say next could result in charges of war crimes. the dog handler heads out into the lead with the patrol scout who will cold
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soldiers see. very very unsanitary they are being guided by the 2 black hawks a hated whose crew have spotted a man in a field where. the dog name quake has been little felicia. the dog handlers gum is trying to figure in the distance who drops down into the field. at the field the dog handler and soldiers see come across a young man among the wheat he's trying to fight off like. we're. in the man's hand appears to be a set of red prayer beads no weapon all radio can be seen the afghan is compliant and quiet on the ground there. because the dog is called off soldiers see trained his weapon on the afghan from very close range. he then turns to the dog handler.
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quite. thought. who are your. 3 shots from close range the afghan is did and soldiers see walks off well. the whole thing from landing to killing takes less than 3 minutes here. so this video in 2012 when you were in afghanistan and elsewhere show you what happens in this field and see what you know about it.
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so he shot the afghan did you know about this or i didn't you haven't seen this before. and you know who those soldiers are. and he was well held and he's turned to his superior officer over here he said you want me to drop this he says it's really tormes. in your mind what do you make of that whole situation it's just a straight up execution really yeah he's someone i suppose what he should do that comes under the soldier pulling the trigger and it's a straight up execution. khaliq was in a nearby field when the dean. first. we heard gunshots he was around 300 meters away from us. that mohammad was
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a good man is time was up and it's well. get out the way i was told that his face was swollen and covered in blood and that he wasn't recognizable. we also found the dead man's father who was away the day his son died he returned immediately to bury him. a compound. they thought. he was in a shroud because of my grief i was sitting over there while we learned that house where is he in the cities there. i went to see he said womb and i covered his face and told them to take him to the graveyard. burial i came back to see the place i saw the wheat field where he was killed the week was flattened all around.
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the death of the man named dead muhammad was later investigated by the defense force after afghan tribal elders complained. what the i.d.f. investigators were told by s.a.'s soldiers and what the video shows are 2 very different things. soldiers see claim that the afghan had been shot because he'd been seen with a radio. he said he engaged the afghan from 15 to 20 meters away in self-defense. the investigators found that the afghan was lawfully killed because he posed to direct threat to the astray and. they're going to look back and say that we were there we were the guys in there murdering and. not there to do something that is honorable. in your opinion will walk wrongs committed in afghanistan by stress special forces yes they were you can't shoot unarmed people and not call that matter. but i never heard of that.
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if a crisis might and if prosecutions are successful war crimes murder carries imprisonment for life as a potential maximum penalty. i just want the trees to come out and people of who did commit crimes to be held accountable to some people who served with deserve to get a job yes. for brayden chapman speaking out is his chance to atone for staying silent about what he witnessed in afghanistan even if it could come at a cost. it's a very courageous thing to the and in fact it demonstrates the integrity of this like into a man like him who has the courage to speak out should he be celebrated for his courage who do you think should be hung out to dry. a slight gloss suspect. they
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they'll be some adverse treatment but i'd like to cite that he and others like him would be would be celt would be congratulated for that for their integrity and for their courage given you know talking to us does that worry you what the blowback could be for you sometimes i think about physical danger are i'm reporting on highly trained soldiers. you know that people in afghanistan and didn't care about it and for a 2nd i do think about that kind of thing richard if people come after me. and was there anything that happened over the. way you crossed a lot of that your shame novel is a more of a case that you wish you could've done more about what you saw i didn't break any rules of engagement by looking back now. i'm not sure how i comply would've went at the time if i voice my concern. i feel now that even if it had to ruin my
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career back then i probably should've made that comply. using would have gone anyway no way. than the images that you've got in your head that you've shaved this major hello i live on in your mind i don't think they'll ever go away. hidden away in the room a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through and hear it out to see it are we believe everyone has a story worth hearing it's america's worst kept secret cracked open in the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture
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