reflect a bigger problem in us society it's part of again deep rooted systemic racism in america. see some people as belonging and others as outsiders and right now are cast as perpetual farmers and rights researchers at san francisco state university recorded 2800 racist incidents involving asian americans last year ranging from verbal abuse and spitting to physical assault rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the 4th day as donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his lawyers wrapped up their defense arguing the trial is unconstitutional and that evidence against trump was manipulated is accused of inciting the riot on capitol hill last month and which 5 people died

both sides face questions from senators this unprecedented effort is not about democrats opposing political violence is about democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition it is constitutional cancel culture history will will will record this shameful effort as a deliberate attempt by the democrat party to smear censor and cancel not just president trump but the 75000000 americans who voted for him the u.s. senate as a paid tribute to a man they say is a hero of the capital riots eugene goodman was awarded the congressional gold medal its highest civilian honor for his role in protecting politicians during the insurrection senators also gave him a standing ovation. the u.s.

will revoke the terror designation of yemen's who the rebels put in place by the trumpet ministration president joe biden the u.n. and aid groups fear the listing would make yemen's humanitarian crisis even worse by preventing a deliveries to areas controlled by the rebels for you an agency said least 400000 yemeni children aged under 5 could starve to death this year without urgent help severe malnutrition has worsened as the pandemic has compounded the impact of the war many aid programs in yemen are closing are being scaled but because they don't have enough money and cooper testers are out on the streets in myanmar for the 8 consecutive day they want the generals to release deposed leader unsung suchi who is under arrest friday so the biggest demonstration against the since the coup on february 1st were those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one of many statements on so much that. we understand the differences and

similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter. how to bring you the need and current affairs that matter to you. how does iraq. gargano. there was strategy is a late soldiers. in a decade the special air service is regiment s.a.'s carried out operations in afghanistan. is going to look back and say that we were the guys in the mediterranean inviting not they had to do something that is honorable now a soldier who was on these missions speaks out about was he so the guy had his hands up and it was almost like target practice for that soldier you can't 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. a signals intelligence officer fresh out of training with the essay is he was struck by a country mind in war. i thought it was a really beautiful country yes snowcapped cakes where the rivers where it was

really draining into valleys and i used to cite 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 elitism as it is the best thing you can do if you create a kind of that unit. specially when your. a low rank and you're actually going to get to do a lot of hands on stuff you definitely feel confident with they've got us i never once felt like i was going out i was unprotected i never felt. 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 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. gives a regular i'm simply 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 room 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 hassle blow out a wall. so not exactly a wife winning hearts and minds in your opinion. for your view of the earth. after a night raid out the numbers of how many cars they had lined up or dogs i'd shot was another one they were pretty quick to shoot dogs.

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. mood get intelligence brace they would 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 is popular no idea who it is but most this time it was a really simple descriptor. you know the average afghani man. for the study and 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. the fos majority of our special operations soldiers hall the professional and quite

frankly remarkable men. partly try and. 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 di annoyed 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 the special forces knew about the rules of war intimately so there's no excuse for committing any sort of outside the rules of engagement or any crime for that matter no excuse in terms of the training 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 one they 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 at the taliban bunker who would go on to spark lethal retribution by one is a us soldier. i landed with one patrol and as we came up a hero had gunfire and then from there we could say that the patrol that was walking across the front of them on how it was getting shot out. when i came over the hill at the side just look by the way it's running everywhere trying to get

away. this is the accompanied by afghan special forces known as the work continues shake the skolem wakas. that patrol that came under fire they had a train each 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. leaving the charges they say is operator who will colt soldier a naval as other solders 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 it off and he was telling everyone else to get back why was he so fired up a started it and he wanted to finish it. like.

i'm not sure what his mindset is 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 google for. soldier a then begins firing through a hole into the bunker. any . soldier a orders one of the essays corporals to throw in a thermal grenade. if. once he got he gets them overnight and it completely collapsed the man and from there 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 ac bill or the battle over the a c. is made it dusty can finally get to the afghan soldier who's been shot at the front of the bunker. with the dust of battle still in the air members of the essay is patrolling the ridge above pools to reflect on the battle. where the couple all the salt and almost. half. the total. is equal they have all the wealth all. the conversation then switches to soldier i who led the assault on the bunker is it is .

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 where. there's 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 soldier ordered the. prison a scenario back on the ground he then motion for the 2 to shoot him.

the soldier khana looked at him confused asking you know wondering what he's telling him to do 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 could physically say this i could yeah and what does destroyed s.a.'s operatives. for this he said i had to give him a way in. what did he mean by that because i just lost one of their members give them a win let them have something what are you thinking. at the time i was just like

ok we're 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 up 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 sor us. he quickly dropped she's firing from his pocket and he threw up. and at that stage he stopped he put his hands up.

and then just stood there. as we got closer to him this 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 cricket. i was only 5 to 10 minutes behind him at the time and at the time i was 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 as metta. just days later one of the essay is videos kept as members of 3 squadron discussing soldier a and other incidents involving the patrol. it's

a ball just all. all all all it kids all. of the kids. just all. you can get into. it. all. rumors and allegations of war crimes committed by strange and special forces who were the subject of a wide ranging inquiry conducted by the inspector general of the strategy of defense force. we have obligations of these national domestic war and indeed moral obligations to not ignore these sorts of allegations there is a potential for a prosecution under all certainly for charges to be lied under oath of 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 school day jonesy has some see the target is an insurgent bomb make up. the helmet camera footage you'll seeing is from the ace a 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 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 named quake is the 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 quite a lot of. work. 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.

quite. up. 3 shots from close range the afghan is did and soldiers say 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. so he shot the afghan did you know about this i didn't you haven't seen this before

. and do you know who those soldiers are i do. and he was well held and he's turned to his superior officer over here he said do 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 team. first. we heard gunshots he was around 300 meters away from us. that muhammad was a good man his time was up he was well. out of that 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 there while we learned that house where is he in the cities there. i went to see his face had womb and covered his face and told them to take him to the graveyard to. tease burial i came back to see the place i saw the wheat field where he was killed was flattened all around. 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. taken a look back and say that we were. we were the guys in there murdering and invading . not there to do something that is honorable. in your opinion were war crimes committed in afghanistan by stress special forces yes there were you can't shoot unarmed people and not call that matter. that i never heard of that. 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 go to joe 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 do you think you'd be hung out to dry to cite the law suspect. the 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. i'm reporting on highly trained soldiers. murdered people in afghanistan and didn't care about it and for a 2nd i do think about that kind of thing richard boucher yes people come after me . and was there anything that happened over the e.c. where you crossed a lot of that your shining 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 compliant would've went at the time if i voice my concern. i feel now that even if it had to ruin my korea back then i probably should've made that comply. using would have gone anyway

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