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of. mormon in a pretty what. makes the pill easier to swallow. everybody was come. again this is else here quick check of the headlines of the hour europe's asylum policies on the fall and the latest spike in the red so the suspect had to back to tear up the notes trigger is accusations such lax checks provide terrorists with a fine structure constant. heavy snow falls and strong winds close new paths in the region as a model citizens want to run the clock trying to restore when it tricity to
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thousands. also celebrating break up so that while the american marriages end in divorce we'll tell you why celebrating freedom could be fun and even told it's. paradise tourists return to the public about policy as the better it's a reveal the treasure is hidden by the way. up next to the stories of soldiers and officers who choose coltrane's over all the orders and the prize they paid for that decision in the second part of a special report. the canaries. rupe of generals had planned a coup d'etat you know i wasn't intimate cool i was not contaminated by the desire
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to overthrow the government. and. want to put you at about eight thirty am. i received a memo from the division commander. ordering me to take control of the region of delta and to rest a governor and members of the regional government. there will i gather my officers and told them what i thought about the whole thing. going to be bits of me until i gave them a short verbal order maintain calm in order do not change the system. and respect the life of all citizens. of the enemy on september eleventh. i was mayor of the city of tulka and we see that the. we know my name is
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a coup and foresee. and i was a member of the communist party but that day the party had decided. that about ten thirty am. i would go to the military barracks to speak with. find out exactly what's going on. to assess the situation. i think i must be the only communist mayor in the country who went into military barracks on september eleventh spoke with the military commander expressed reservations about the events of the day. down of their free to carry out my duties as mayor. but think if i spoke to this man if i agreed to see him it's because he was a chilean citizen a man who had been elected mayor of talca by the population he had that title i
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could not despise and that's why i treated him like i did. i am alive today because. when i. was the military commander. otherwise impossible i forget it. i was among the first on the list of people to be eliminated. by the put use. to them for two thousand and nine. number one million singles later three years running to drive the new lease on titan six ninety six has the news conference good morning to a good morning to extend an american soldier who went a while rather than fight what he calls and oil driven war in iraq faces a current martial at fort stewart today and his trial is attracting international media attention spanish and canadian television crews joined local news teams to
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report he faces up to a year in prison for desertion if convicted. controls . today it is for the first day of the trial in the court martial of staff sergeant peel. in years charged with one specification of violation of article eighty five of the uniform code of military justice you see m.j. desertion. i will introduce mr ramsey clark as you all know i know as a former attorney general united states in the sixty's certainly the johnson administration set to go beat leading the defense on the issue of whether
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international law defenses that we want to offer should be admitted in this case is that this is a or the most important issues in this case. come down to the station. no. because it should such great importance. to our country tend to peace. in iraq you have soldiers accused of violating international law. the geneva convention. and for that matter domestic law for which you can brutalized people under any circumstances under any law. here you have a soldier. who served in iraq. you describe leader. his squad was cleared in. two
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abuses that were violations of international law. you know they were they were stationed out at the international airport. they were handing detainees but what condit is three cian your man who had no doubt if it cajun have. only code names and they do the actual interrogation. but they order. these young soldiers around on how you handle the detainees when the actual impaired geisha isn't going on. and they were ordered to deprive them of sleep. forty eight hours. to keep them blindfolded. jerk them around make them stand make noise. take your weapon to defuse may shoot the person right in the head at that time. he thought he had a duty to stay out of that. activity that is
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a violation of international law. that's what you want to soldiers to do. more if you want to be a democratic society than find obedience to authority. you see that in order is illegal and you're being ordered to commit a crime don't do it. yet they make the prosecution fears that a light sentence or making it will encourage other immigrant soldiers to desert the defense argues it may he had the right to obey his own conscience it rather than orders from his commanding officer a ten person jury will hear testimony tomorrow from fort stewart georgia. univision .
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one of the soldiers who have been in my one. told his mother. mom i don't feel like my life belongs to me. why did you move me so much to the soldier said that he did because i failed the same way when i was there. because we were told to go on missions that we knew were not for the benefit of anyone other than the officers who were given such orders to go into such missions because we knew that there were officers there were pretty much instigating fire fights and creating social distress because they had gone through so many years to have gone through entire military careers without having any type
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of comic. spearing and in order for them to have the experience the background they need to get their promotions and to make. us want general perhaps have been scum but experience. is very helpful. but. they don't really care who you are all they care about is that we go there and don't we get into fire fights so they can get their medals so they can get their promotion so they can get their purple hearts.
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going. into said yep and then you ask yourself why did all this happen you know why did all these people die. why did i allow myself to be put in a situation where i have to kill in order to survive. were. shovel cheating bush mood in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight there was no
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palestinian national authority. cities had their own town councils knew at the time the palestinians could govern themselves to a certain extent. the issue of one day. israel expelled the mayor of the brawny. and the mayor of albury to jordan. him a fellow at the next day we were sent to patrol the city of heber. before but there was a huge demonstration to protest the expulsion of the two mayors and that would mean there were a lot of protesters. they were throwing stones at every government installation they saw whether military or civilian. damage and then the government issued the order to open fire on the demonstrators. in we look for that if
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i said no i can't open fire a lot i didn't have the capacity to break up a demonstration the goodlatte had no tear gas is no shield it's no rubber bullet. it's with the you had nothing at all i said i'm a soldier a fighter. i fire my weapon it's to kill me with someone ask me are you refusing to obey an order shoot she i said yes i refuse because this order goes against my principles. no one can force me to kill if i don't want to do it and i don't want to be a war criminal. he was in a thief so i was reprimanded and demoted.
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it to you on the one sunday i was in the government building if you want it and i received a phone call from the second in command you go on he said commander general i really annoys here to seal. that will but i told him i would be right there and immediately went to the burial of me and in a moment think it will be when i came in the room because i saw a general in combat uniform butterwick in our glass of whiskey in one hand. the persona machine gun on the other hand what if you introduced myself and said general there is nothing to report in the area yes me what does that mean nothing to report on it how many political prisoners seen how many detainees are there.
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but also i insisted nothing to report in general. but commander don't you know we are at war he asked me. i couldn't help myself and i said to both of them did he want war are you talking about generally case when i mean i know it's possible to declare war against neighboring countries it's seen but not against our own countrymen. went in with. very well he said you're dismissed wait in the next room but it may be then met with most senior officers in my unit and with his staff. and then he informed me that the military had decided that i should report to army headquarters and relinquish my command it went in to get him.
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it will simply have a thimbleful i was cord marshall and accused of dereliction of military duty to me to get in dereliction of military duty immediately. to me at the i was sentenced to five years in prison because. i went to prison but endured persecution slander threats of execution it was he not me and spent seventeen years in exile.
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we're going to have to start here let me just professor jules folke l l o l e is a full professor of international law at university it's for he's also the vice president of the center for asked to show rice came all the way down to his forgotten midnight exhausted learns that the judge is not going to live i want to just start this fall when he would testify that's. the underlying issue this case is really whether the united states government will comply with its
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international obligations the treaty obligations and international. and they are for i would have testified bethought me in his absence from his unit was authorized under international law under the treaties which we have signed and under the precedents which we are still. after world what's. at the nuremberg tribunals which the united states government was the chief prosecutor of decided that a soldier or a command or citizen has obligations under international law then are higher than their duty to obey the best aquash superior orders even to a standard cannot be considered in mitigation where crimes as shocking and extensive has been committed consciously ruthlessly and without a military excuse or justification. and that set the basic
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precedent that a soldier ought to this obey. an order that is a week old. and it would have been much better in the prison systems in iraq if more sold. it's had disobeyed it would have been better for our whole international image and our whole foreign policy and it's in the military's interest. even though most military people would say this has to be the key thing but this point at what cost if the cost is committing war crimes and discipline has to give way to the broader principle that military should operate on the wall.
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good morning everyone of us receive or hear the newsroom is attorney say is a good squad leader who took care of his men but the government says he left them behind when they needed in the most those are the opening arguments in the court martial of florida national guard soldier. he is accused of deserving is unit well on a two week furlough from iraq last fall convicted he faces a year in prison and a dishonorable discharge from. the military court has reached
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a decision. very serene. he says he stands by his action it's. the latest news from fort stewart georgia. three to seven. using. a army specialist jeremy sivits was the first soldier to be charged and is expected to plead guilty to taking pictures of
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the abuse as part of his deal with prosecutors he would testify against the other soldiers faces a maximum of one year in prison. might be getting sweeter. what is. is that the men who gave the orders not fully assume the responsibility of the commanding officer. they tire responsibility for the entire fall to their subordinates. one cannot delegate the command responsibility. response ability i can delegate authority to my second in command my responsibility under no circumstances. i was willing. and i'm still willing to defend my home. to defend my country. but i am not
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willing and i will never be willing. to conquer. another nation. i think about the real price. that was paid for this war. time and not only by american and allied troops. but also by the families of the soldiers who suffered a great deal. and mainly by iraqi embassy attack that who are oppressed now and who are paying them dearly. i think what i am doing now. even if it costs me a few years in prison is
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a small price to pay and even if i go to prison for this i will be free. i will have been free enough to make the right decision that i will feel that despite the contract i signed to become a soldier i gave myself the freedom to make the right decision.
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