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in the struggle against criminals to be confused with cowardice in facing them. we also kind of that allowed this distortion of effect a mess of taint by killing innocent. is in the. day we decided to present our document. we had meticulously prepared it for several months . because there were various important circumstances in the field of human rights including the visit of the un high commissioner for human rights. as. citizens. by the way an hour earlier the government finally made up its mind to take decisions it should have taken years ago about. the ministry of national defense. but it has decided to withdraw from active
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service. and someone to court with the use of discretionary power. the following members of the army. officers and service men were deprived of office as well as noncommissioned officers. including generals who. it was that they were dictated to and those very areas. belong to those brigades which we had reported as having the highest number of crimes against human beings. my daughter handed out major general. alberto of the seventh division. brigadier general cortez franco who was a. commander of the second division of. the media during that media show on october twenty ninth. of two b. she was the target of us as treated us as.
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we just tolerated those deaths on this one. from what we gather this is an administrative decision. despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office because. it has led to the opening of several court cases. i'm to arrest warrants against members of the army. it's a political decision but why the suv public opinion but luckily it stopped at that moment because if they had carried on it it would have had to throw out all division commanders and i'm quite a few brigade commanders. by getting rid of three generals the public is satisfied and they can show the government is actually doing something to fight the fall so it's positive those phenomenon. we have counted over twelve hundred false positive us victims formally report of a such or were formally recognized as victims during our investigations. the
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question is can it be that as has been documented. that took place are isolated cases or isn't this a logical contradiction. i asked the same question. it happened in all divisions it happened everywhere. i read a cynic report. it says that the region with the most false positive most cases in two thousand and eight. he. is fifth or sixth. but it was the commander of the second division who paid for all the positive cases all this cannot be done by just small groups on their own initiative. it's an issue that can be seen requires very sophisticated planning at each level. and why is it not
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a scandal. this is. crazy. because it's almost in comprehensible. imagine a patrol on the battle ground and they meet some peasant or guide in the area. over there. he's the one who planted mind. tells you that he planted the mines that killed one of your men. he's a far greater villian brings food to the guerrillas a commander who's leading a platoon. saw a brother in arms die of the previous day on a mine planted by back. might think of arresting a person and also then simulate a fight with the person leading to his death. this is my father's house it's way he lived and grew you could learn and pineapple he also had some cows and
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pigs she was here all the time he was a farmer and the computer was fond of him one morning when i got a cold telling me to come here because there were men in the house and nobody knew why that happened. on a bus from europe let it was an anomaly it was a very alarming and distressing situation because we didn't know anything about that where he was what they'd done to him this serviceman wouldn't talk they wouldn't answer any questions they said he had a gun this lady slept here so you have to take her away to she's a guerrilla fighter and that is a guerilla man i am to. nothing look nothing not even a drop of blood. not even a drop of blood the two came outside and killed him. it's unbelievable.
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you know the rules are likely come on tape everything please and where the weapon is where the weapons they're talking about where the weapons. that was. going was. full of bull's eye was this possible. they had no right. they had to leave. to simulate to lie to say she was a guerrilla man would come out to attack them to say she died fighting as you now are backing the conditions we found my dad's mahdi would rattle them in a really painful awful humiliate in the greatest humiliation a human being could receive from anyone. to find your father in the state thrown on the ground naked mistreated her do it. shouldn't they be the
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ones who take care of us. who should care for the good and the honor of colombians . we're talking about a crime committed only to show the world and the u.s. that their defeat in the green well they're actually cue an innocent promise and workers who are doing good to the country. as in the you probably because they're incapable of finding the real warriors and killing them. the government's responsibility after doing serious internal investigations should be to figure out if these officers were accessories to the extradition massacres if so they should bring criminal charges against them and if instead they are guilty
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of negligence of judy or in discipline in this case to it shouldn't form the country that this was the cause of their dismissal and then there's a very interesting inquiry by a center dealing with the declassification of secret documents in the u.s. called national security archive they have proved that this was not a new practice in the colombian armed forces let's say that there's a tradition of what's called body counting where they cut the number of enemy shot dead. sensually and what we do is press the government to release documents on u.s. foreign policy national security. earliest document that i think it's from one thousand nine hundred this is
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a cable from the u.s. embassy in. talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day it killed nine guerrillas in combat and sometimes their department investigation by instructs and their proclivity strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues will be. the leading recipient or the atmosphere probably. more of the rest. through the night ninety. through the years. for the worst human rights record this year but those two factors tend to correlate one thousand nine hundred ninety four again in one thousand nine hundred seventy and they're talking about this body count syndrome know myself that i'm not surprised but in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation. and that they haven't done
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a thing you know agent to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration whom you have to through our basic tracking them of the military paramilitaries who closely for the last five is devoted to extortion kidnappings and recruiting of minors i mean. you know they don't care they have no regrets about trampling over international humanitarian law money they make money with the international drug dealing. to. the significantly increase the capacity of them. which has we're just in the kind of security over the country many things are ruthless so at least in the. urban areas you will
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see groups of them with. the as to be. the largest turmoil this is the world who cared for. the second. this is a cia document central intelligence agency its intelligence memorandum from january nineteenth for colombian counterinsurgency steps. in the right direction and that's one of the reasons they produced these documents is for a little bit wider dissemination in the government has been fifty one percent years . of military training black american officers used to go through this they are. one of those from the state department there's the actual group using the military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians and guerrilla areas cooperating with
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their contacts related paramilitary groups attacks against suspected guerrilla sympathizers and killing captured that it's. so pretty direct statement from the cia in one thousand nine hundred four and you know when they put these documents together. these sort of analytical documents these are summaries of raw intelligence that they gather from different sources part of the poetry and so that . is to shift the look at the training to listen to the girls that are free from bush who feel. if you go to the sea it is true that in europe they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yaks usaid continued to flow.
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closer reach. i mean the fact that it has it is hard to. refute you should assume it's going to be scandals who should be will. put it to the resources will want to go to understand whether the. group should collude on this group as you mentioned but. the will so you are over the ship are worried that if.
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this is the tenth meeting organized by the national movement of victims everywhere in the country thousands of people have taken part in these meetings thanks to several legal actions have been undertaken allowing the identification of people responsible for violating human rights. it was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights which is part of the state crime victims association he was killed with two gunshots. he was burnt. knifed and his internal organs were extracted they also broke his legs. only because he was promoting an initiative
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troublesome issues and was starting to bring certain truths to the surface. there are hundred thirty five thousand registered internal refugees in a region with a population of four hundred fifty thousand in other words thirty two percent of the population was forcibly displaced a part of the population is subject to food restrictions with police forces preventing foodstuffs from reaching the area there have been one hundred thirty five cases of executions committed by police officers and executions known as false as positive. find access to the justice system very difficult that first of all because of their economic situation. it's difficult for them to get
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a lawyer you know. victims are socially segregated many live on the fringes of society or reside illegally so they can't say they are victims because they're being persecuted or outcasts. being a victim is shameful. mobile phone calls or notes with insults and warnings on them saying that if they talk they can fall victim to any sort of aggression in a culture of fear among victims has built up they say things like i can't talk because so and so started talking and they've killed him or he's disappeared or he's being threatened that's why a lot of people just won't talk. it's getting worse because the government has started to intimidating people who want to report these things saying that those who report false hoods will be prosecuted. are the problem is that everyone has the right to turn to the legal system to report something. we are the first who
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want to inquire into these cases and find out if they really are cases of fossils positive us. if they are we shall take all necessary steps and every responsibility but if they are not then they add to the long list of fake reports.
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we left got to go our for cheap or. after one hour of war. at two pm but here is was already that. waiting for us. when they made us go to the chicken kira barracks to prove we were a family. somebody is they gave us a document there which we needed in chief to collect the bodies. we gave the documents to the mayor and then we went to on earth the bodies. not even a row was dug out at about four. xander at four thirty. in the park we heard people saying relatives that scum. as if they didn't know us they obviously repeated what they had heard.
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regarding alexander's case we have always asked the state for transparency and justice. my mother says that over time she doesn't want her son to be remembered as a criminal who died fighting. because that's not the truth it wasn't a criminal. i don't understand why the government picks people and passes and all as positive as knowing that these people have a family what is safe to go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you
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want a medal earned it by this went off your brow not just by killing the first guy you come across to be can bold before the colombian people i'm against that and they've got no idea of the pain they're cause into their relatives so if we don't reconsider the armed conflicts and the excessive militarization of the country and if we don't go for a new democratic order we will never get out of the sad stage of extrajudicial killings in our country. countries like britain the us france and germany. are sensitive to the fact that or any aid colombia receives. should respect human rights standards. that's why i was in favor of what the north american government said a few days ago they said that to the plan colombia should be cut because the cash is being used to pay the rewards for the false positive oaths and that's out of the question. the truth is that the victims are getting organized and are generating
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significant social and political processes in colombia. peace cannot be built. on impunity. plinth . let's. let. the chips. please please. please. let me.
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explain limitless. split. except. let. slip. below live live live live
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live below. cool. cool intro of. cocoa q thank you thanks.
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opposition supporters clash with riot police as thousands gather in the bella russian capital minsk to protest alexander lukashenko seemingly fourth consecutive victory. also this hour police are on high alert in the moscow region as over four hundred are arrested in an effort to prevent more clashes between russian right wing nationalist and ethnic minorities sparked by the death of a football fun almost two weeks ago. and all some trips were very game as prime minister vladimir putin to be hold seed resign your q. and a session with the russian public nationalism and the justice system were among the issues get dressed in the small hours section. and
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another week of protests in here about the government austerity measures in several countries across the continent an economic crisis as citizens say the latest european union bailout plan will not be enough just say the euro. hello and welcome to the program this is a review. welcome to the program and great to have you with us precious in balamory so the presidential election to have turned violent with two candidates among over one hundred people detained following clashes with police tens of thousands folks to the central square minsk demonstration after an apparent landslide victory for current president alexander lukashenko has catarina zuyder reports and also a camera crew have also been heard in the trouble protests.

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