sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. from a colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. a sergeant in the us army. tried to become an american by getting pardon the. franks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey.

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the can at least as group of generals had planned a coup d'etat you know i wasn't intimate cool i was not contaminated by the desire to overthrow the government. well you're. going to put you at about eight thirty am going to go 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. and it will i gather my officers and told them what i thought about the whole feint. to be beside

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 the mayor of the city of tulka and we see that the. we know my name is 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. so you think on it 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 could not despise and that's why i treated him like i did. i am alive today because. if rain. was the military commander. otherwise impossible for get it. i was among the first on the list of people to be eliminated. by the put use. to them two

thousand. number when you think of later three years running to drive the heat on to ninety six as the news comes good morning julie good morning text on 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 report he faces up to a year in prison for desertion if convicted. because holmes. to date is for the first day of the trial in the court martial of staff sergeant will be used 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 by now as a former attorney general united states in the sixty's certainly the johnson ministrations you just have to go be leading the defense on the issue of whether 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. 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 course you can't prove 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 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 i'm doing is there's three sheen your man who had no dinner and have. only code names and they do the actual interrogation. but they order. these young soldiers around on how you handle it became meet with the actual impaired geisha isn't going on. and they were ordered to deprive them of sleep.

forty eight hours. to keep them blindfolded. 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. in the violation of international law. that's what you want to soldier to do. take more if you want to be a democratic society than to find obedience to authority. and you see that in order to legal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. yet they make the prosecution fears that a light sentence or make will encourage other immigrant soldiers to desert the defense argues. had the right to obey his own conscience if you other than orders

from his commanding officer a ten person jury will hear testimony tomorrow from fort stewart georgia. univision . i. one of the soldiers who have been 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 firefights and creating social distress because they had gone through so many years to have gone through entire military careers without having any time some experience and in order for them to have the experience the background they need to get their promotions and to make. this one general perhaps i mean this combat experience. is very helpful. but.

they don't really care who you are all they care about is that we go there and we get into firefights so they can get their medals so they can get their promotion so they can get their purple hearts. that it is. all going to. go. into said when i 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. should watch even be small in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight there was no palestinian national authority in the cities had their own town councils knew it that's my the palestinians could govern themselves to a certain extent. that issue one day. israel expelled the mayor of his brother. and the mayor of el miri to jordan. we must feel that the next day we were sent to patrol the city of heber.

the but there was a huge demonstration to protest the expulsion of the two mayors and that would mean there were a lot of protesters shot they were throwing stones at every government installation they saw whether military or civilian three. women show and then the government issued the order to open fire on the demonstrators. in the local for that if 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 us i had nothing at all i said i'm a soldier a fighter. by fire my weapon it's to kill me with someone asked 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 i don't want to be a war criminal. he was doing as if so i was reprimanded and demoted. it. one sunday i was in the government building if you want it and i received a phone call from the second in command because he said commander general i really annoys here to seal. that will because i told him i would be right there and immediately went to the barrel of me and in

a moment think it will be when i came in the room because i saw a general in combat uniform going by what we can are glass of whiskey in one hand. and a machine gun on the other hand when you introduced myself and said general there is nothing to report in the area yes me what does that mean nothing to report. i'm any political prisoners seen how many detainees are there. but also i insisted nothing to report 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 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 in jungle had decided. that i should report to army headquarters and relinquish my command to get windows in to get him . it will simply add a thimbleful i was court martialed and accused of dereliction of military duty to

me to get in dereliction of military duty meet me. at the i was sentenced to five years in prison because. i went to prison but endured persecution slander threats of exclusion and spent seventeen years in exile. we're going to have to start here let me just professor jules folke l l o l is a full professor of international law at university it's for he's also the vice

president of the center for us to show right in all ways it's forgotten night exhausted learns that the judge is not going to live i want to just start this fall what he would testify and that's. the underlying issue this case is really whether the united states government will comply with its international obligations treaty obligations and international law. and ask for i would have testified that sought to make his absence from his unit with all rights under international under the treaties which we have signed and under the precedents which we are still. after world. 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 that are higher than their duty to obey the best aquash superior orders even to a soldier 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 precedent that a soldier what this obey. an order that is a week. and it would have been much better in the prison systems in iraq if more soul. 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 is a 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. good morning every one of us receive or hear the ws who 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 if convicted he faces a year in prison and in this article discharge. the. military court has reached a decision. very serene. he says he stands by his action it's. the latest news from fort stewart georgia.

three to seven. army specialist jeremy sivits was the first soldier to be charged and is expected to plead guilty to taking pictures of the abuse as part of his deal with prosecutors he would testify against the other soldiers sivits faces a maximum of one year in prison. might be getting sweeter temperatures and. what is terrible is that the men who gave the orders not fully assume the responsibility of the commanding officer. tire responsibility and the entire fall to their subordinates. one cannot delegate the command responsibility. response ability

i can delegate authority to my second in command of 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 willing and i will never be willing. to conquer. another nation. i think about the real price. that was paid for this war at. the time and not only by american and allied troops. but also by the families of

the soldiers who suffered a great deal you and mainly by iraqi embassy attack that who are oppressed now and who are paying them dearly. i think what i am doing now where even if it costs me a few years in prison is 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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