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welcome back here with r t here's a look at the top stories human rights groups claim international pharmaceutical giants are endangering the lives of patients in india by using them as guinea pigs the cost of testing drugs is significantly lower in india for the fuel cost is increasing every year. it's fifty years since the soviet space program saw a pair of dogs becoming the first living things to survive an orbital flight this pave the way for the first man to go to space eight months later. investigators say a chechen militant leader with links to al qaida is likely to be behind a car bombing in russia's north caucasus authorities have stepped up security across moscow fearing more attacks. as we have lines here in our next in our special report we'll carry the personal stories of female u.s. soldiers who were sexually assaulted while serving in iraq and the army's attempts to cover it up.

oral. jefferson barracks national symmetry here the u.s. military on a small children simply thousand wounded from camp things past and present. the family of one soldier buried here on the defense bill since code of honor and respect means nothing. you blessed us when you gave birth to us. we just never imagine we wouldn't help her loman. today dr john johnson has come back to reaffirm his promise to his nineteen year old daughter that he will continue the fight to find out how she died.

i'm asking you to just continue to to bless us to encourage us to get justice for. dr johnson birth fuses to believe the on the spine thing that he's daughter private living at least johnson killed herself just five weeks into her tour of iraq by firing her name sixteen rifle into. you get a nineteen year old female that gets off work she puts a reflective belt around her waist she stops at the p.s. and seabass soda lip balm and many indigo say she walks across the post and said doubt in a dark trash contractors tip and sit down to shout as if what a milf sixteen rifle and then believe makes sense as she put all her thing your prayer and all around the room. and she with asking me mom do i have

a rhyme out of this book and i can't bear to take it now. levine is not the linda i spoke to the night before she died she was her happy jubilant but please self we left. and i say we will make it plain stocking about christmas and it's july seventeenth. two days after that a soldier showed up unannounced at the johnson school in missouri. so he looked up at me and he said. are you lyndon johnson the mother i have a living will be. and i say yes very. where do you. any open his little book and he said he began to read i regretfully inform you that

your daughter private living only in charleston. is due. of a self-inflicted wound. and i just began screamin it holly and i just moved past her couldn't believe. after the initial shock the family began to question the army's rush to judgment that living a died of a self-inflicted injury. that's the one with the rifle. dr johnson is a veteran himself who went on to work for the army as a civilian specialist in psychology for nearly three decades but for the past three years he has studied every aspect of his daughter's did. but i'm looking for the sketch that the criminal investigators may. have just to

showcase in. their closeup of it. some of the blood patterns with his brother joe a former prisons officer with forensics training they've spent countless hours analyzing and cross referencing photos reports and the testimony of those in the camp and i will miss a car if they stay there from the time he heard what he deemed to be out the back for r. or a gun shot he looked in the direction he saw flames coming from the tip no live d.f.a. see two with just a contract to stay. one of the many in consistencies according to dr johnson is the army's conclusion that living in a used in excel or and to start a small fire to burn her diary which then spread to a nearby building which the witnesses say that the stone was lying on top of her

someone live in excel and in excel it was sitting on the bottom of the stove so physically better that evidence just shows there was at least another person in that location when when she were by it was placed there because that's not where she. this also you believe that there is science that she was sexually assaulted. dr johnson believes levine or was raped and mooted by someone in her camp and accuses the army of covering up a soldier on soldier slaying. it would be easy to dismiss his conclusions as the imaginings of a grief stricken father if that weren't the disturbing pattern of six crimes indeed initially inaction in the u.s. military is going to jessica and. i. jessica kenyon is an army

veteran and today she is giving a talk to students at a new york college there is. jessica says she survived multiple rapes in situ assaults joining the military korea and she is now campaigning to increase awareness of the problem is important for those of us who are able to speak out tutors for the ones who are just not able to mentally or emotionally or whatever so this is a infantry division which is basically everybody in korea becoming an officer had been her dream and then the wings in the u.s. signify that. but as a mechanic attached to a helicopter squadron kenyan found herself in a unit way few women had been before and in a culture where bullying and persecution was the norm it was just premature hazing

birthday or a tour you know where they do this they make them all up and then he's actually tied to a chair. right now but then they make a. sexual harassment at all levels was common place and. women were a source of derision in this video she found in her base a young soldier was taunted and humiliated by his commander for more than full al is after it was discovered he was a virgin. whilst in the us jessica says she was raped by a national guard soldier and later her wrist by her training instructor. jessica was then posted to korea where she continued working on apache helicopters and still had high hopes korea so it didn't really affect my work until i was fully

assaulted for raped by another soldier in korea who was actually a friend of mine here i had confided in while i was overseas. and so. i didn't report that right away either as well because for the same exact reasons that i couldn't trust my commander my commanders or my sergeant or anything anyone associated with my command. jessica says that she eventually made an official report after his superior insisted he would make sure who the sideline this child. but when her attacker was found guilty she says that same command gave him just forty five. and a demotion to banks it really breaks my heart you know because i was going and i was really pushing for the twenty years ago officer you know i was fully capable but you know it was just for all of that to go down oh it came down to me for me to

do the right thing and then for them to not even hold their into the bargain a little add in the honor to it it was really pretty disgusting and heartbreaking and most sexual assault filled victims are not treated well. they become a double victim they become a victim of the system. retired army colonel and relight is another veteran campaigning against sexual assaults the issue of sexual assault in our u.s. military is very grave one in three women it appears have been sexually assaulted during the time they've been in the military. the former u.s. diplomats and antiwar activists believes the military justice system is stacked against sexual assault victims but you are tattling on someone else in your unit even though that person has committed a criminal act on you or gets out of the unit. has been messing around with someone

else and look at sergeant so and so he's being accused of rape and he's got a wife and two kids and we can't sacrifice his career because of this unmarried single night thousand year old woman that claims that he raped her you know one of. the army's own only problem there's been a background in sanya and suzanne says and sweep in iraq in two thousand and four i'm up a sarah remembers will the not before who depart show. as it is there in times day he has i remember hurrying and all three of them are asleep and i thought this may be the last time i ever have all three of my kids sleeping in the same room. soon after arriving in iraq then nineteen year old suzanne started calling her mother to tell her about problems within her platoon i heard that the man that told

me don't worry member have taken care of your daughter started asking her to go into a sexual relationship with with him. yeah that's the only one well i think you all know way. season experienced a phenomena known in the military as c'mon drape genius soldier is coerced by high ranking commanders into six relationships which the military legally defines as right. a couple of months into it kind of dawned on me and it was that i could say no to it. i just hated it but i was you know. he was telling me about the humiliation she was telling me about the things that these men were doing and saying. i remember one point she said mom you're either a bitch or whore and i don't want to be either one of those i don't want to be a bitch i don't want to be

a whore. and really i remember her crying. but when susan complained about how she was being treated she says she was threatened he called me into his room one night and he was like work. i know that you're thinking that it might be ok thing to go to the commander about this but i'm just going to deny you're going to be the one that gets in trouble. susan was sent on should only but when it came time to ship back to iraq. and chose to go rather than return to place there was silence so why did you decide what happened that moment when you said no i just realized that i could there's no escape when you're there in iraq no the guy in charge are you going to charge me. to make you do anything including you know run through that minefield you know i

don't like you. this is in statement to the military about who come on drugs when she was eventually arrested in jails for going the army offered her a deal it would reduce his sentence if she signed a new watered down statement so suzanne's response that was that i'm not doing that and then she took the document and she corrected it everything that they had written just so that they would really see what really happened to her. so i always and to this day i absolutely believe my daughter hundred percent but that really i mean she's she's got some power you know she's very powerful she's very strong and this showed me that she would rather go to prison than say you know then deny what happened to her. since we've does now out of the army and getting back into normal life today helping out

a friend with babysitting and this is. just like everybody's doing normal regular life you know it's a. feeling that still goes on but what's going on in the world when i'm out in the world doing other stuff. for the next eighteen months she's still on a really reserve least with the possibility of being called back hanging over her and her assailant still unpunished. a major crucifying the people that i've talked to who have think victims of sexual assault is that when they reported it that they were victimized this is a phenomena that has existed and this is precisely part of the culture that we're we are in fact turning around. the stress brigadier general jim phillips is a thirty year period veteran and deputy chief at the army's public relations department before i go any farther i want to offer an apology to anyone associated

with the army who has endured sexual abuse sexual harassment assault of any kind this is a this is a problem that the army is tackling with we're going at it full bore quite frankly . our sexual assault wounds the victim physically mentally and emotionally to try to change its culture the army recently launched an awareness campaign using d.v.d.'s like this one. what is sexual assault or curse it is a direct violation of not just our army core value was a warrior ethos it is an assault on the army way of life. from which it is our duty to protect take care of each other no matter the time really what we're doing here is we're engaged in cultural change and i like what the army went through in the late forty's fifty's and into the sixty's as we addressed racial inequality

cultural change at a very profound level they are the army in fact is leading the country in this sort of cultural change the core of being president a civilian national those kinds of no longer facing the army civilian losses will come to order i find it outrageous that brave women at a hearing on situ assault in the military last september congresswoman carolyn maloney the moment the lack of progress by the department of defense i have been in congress for seven terms now and every single term we have had meetings with dio d. and they come in and they confirm to the us to us we're going to be serious we're going to take care of this we're going to stop this zero tolerance but the rhetoric is not being turned into the reality of protecting our women and in some cases men and our military just the committee was grilling dr kay whitley she's the head of the defense department unit set up to address the situation so problem that of

course the doctor whitley had filed to even tune up to an early a hearing and having finally appeared she had few and says even as to why her oversight body hadn't met the nearly two years do you know why it didn't meet. my understanding is they had a difficult time getting the right people in the job thing getting them cleared. they said i wasn't privy to the discussions about why nor did the problem i'm having is that it sounds like you're weak. state line tried to speak with dr whitley but she declined to be interviewed or. it seems that in this whole area all the army can do is apologize in fact we're the first thing we do is apologize because we do recognize that there is a problem that reflects a society wide problem to say it's reflective of society is to dismiss the extent

of the problem though isn't it because the problem is much bigger in the military then the real world we're acting aggressively on the problem and so the farthest thing we're doing is dismissing it what we're saying is we recognize that this is part of a larger piece the piece that we can act on is a piece in the army and that's what we're acting directly on and none of that is any consolation to john johnson did it he is running down the left sad of her body which clearly implicates this she was lying on her lips side when she died knowing that not all her back like white which she was found think him and his family this is and says goes on every piece of evidence they have had to be forced out of the army using freedom of information requests so to have to apply constantly under freedom of information to be subjected to rounds and rounds of paperwork just to

find out the basics is that how it is information that is available to them under the law and under policy should be forthcoming but if it hasn't been that that is a mistake that should be corrected. dr johnson believes this move into next to his daughter's body is evidence that someone tried to cover this smiling the young these no evidence to back that. the fire inside the tent resulted from p.f.c. johnson sitting. from papers on she used to accelerate to ignite several pages that she had ripped out of a notebook which is believed to have been a diary. the army investigators also claim that living in his behavior prior to her did pointed to suicide but her own company commanders statement suggested otherwise this soldier was clearly happy and seemingly very healthy physically and emotionally. with no suicide note no recovered bullets no significant

gunshot residue on her hands and injuries the johnsons believe looked cool by an attacker they decided to push on with their own inquiries use force taking you behind the scenes of the investigation into the death of a local soldier dead a private living at johnson is clouded in controversy and allegations of a cover up news was met with the johnsons had levain his body exist and an independent autopsy conducted by missouri state officials but it failed to provide conclusive and says this examination does not demonstrate any evidence of an assault but you can't eliminate sexual activity by an examination of an adult person and if there is no injury that doesn't mean that there hasn't been sexual activity so you can't rule it out you cannot rule it out. with the

military having failed to conduct a right test at the time if they did there was little more that could be done. nine months after living is still the defense force finalized its report officially concluding that she committed suicide and that the thai speak low sed. the dripping looks like it's this would have been in there with the russian so the implication here is that that when this event took place that they like was. reversed position a piece of diet chalk in the truck with forensic scientists a john jay college of criminal justice in new york just melted plastic stock deadline approached them to take an independent look at the living a johnson case but it after reviewing the evidence they say they understand why the johnsons doubt the military's findings is it in your mind a suicide. that conclusion i believe it's premature at this point it is one of the

potential conclusions but to say definitively i don't say enough compelling evidence taken overall to state that it is in fact a suicide and i think that's one of the possibilities. both have concerns about evidence that appears missed or missing including the failure to test if she had been cichlids solti. they said it wasn't done for she disclosed is that enough to say we don't need to that really doesn't matter people can be addressed on drastic cetera so affection had some burning possible burning on the skin. on the way and not apparent burning on the clothing might mean something happened with the clothing off so these are the things you want to check that's why you got old america checked these things to eliminate the possibility of them having happened i think that there are so many unanswered questions about levine as death and how how

her body was found in a tent how she was able to kill herself set herself on fire set the tent on fire i'm. stunned that so little investigation was done at the scene itself. tragically according to and right the johnson story is not unique of the more than one hundred fifteen thing now service member deaths in the iraq and afghanistan wars sixteen had been ruled suicides. i've talked to four of the families of those women and they maintain. their daughter sister did not commit suicide. and question very strongly. what did go on and all of them are getting no cough ration from the military from the army they are being told. there's nothing else to investigate we finished our investigation and we're not

reopening it. so the johnsons each day is a struggle they do says big dream remains untouched that there are no youth otos of anywhere in the house when she. left me in such a horrible horrible way interests me even more to look at that smile. it's spain. to go through. how do you keep doing this. you know i think originally this this was tough. but i am on a mission you know somebody murdered my daughter. i couldn't give up so i'm going to fight this until i get justice for. what's justice they need to make some changes in their attitude about the how they treat women in the military just

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