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i don't know but we also kind of the allowed this distortion of effect of this tainted by killing innocent victim. is in the. day we decided to present our document. and 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 u.n. high commissioner for human rights. says. it's. by the way our 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 service. and someone to court with the use of discretionary power. the following members of
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the army. officers and service men were deprived of office as well as noncommissioned officers. including generals. it was found they were located in those very areas and belong to those brigades which we had reported as having the highest number of crimes against human beings in. my you are handed out a major general go ahead and. the commander of the seventh division. brigadier general cortez franco who was a. commander of the second division. during that media show on october twenty ninth. of two b. she was a target of us as i am treated as air responsible ma'am. we just tolerate it those deaths on this one. from what we gather this is an administrative
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decision. despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office here. it's led to the opening of several court cases. i'm to arrest warrants against members of the army. it's a political decision by 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 a whole division commanders 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 falso as positive as phenomenon. we have counted over twelve hundred false positive us victims formal report of a such or formally recognized as victims during our investigations. the question is can it be that as has been documented some surveillance that took place
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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. by and. 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 as can be seen requires very sophisticated planning at each level. and why is it not a scandal. this is. crazy. because
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it's almost in comprehensible. imagine a patrol on the battle ground and they meet some peasant or guide in the area. says go over there. he's the one who planted mind. tells you that he planted the mines that killed one of your men. is a farce civilian 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 a bad guy. i think of arresting a person and also then simulate a fight with the person he's 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 pigs he was here all the time he was
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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. i know from your letter 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 mysterious men 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. it was written was only come on tape everything please where the weapon is where
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the weapons they're talking about where the weapon. that was. going was. her with bull's eye was this possible. they had no right. they had to leave these to simulate to lie to say she was a gorilla man could come out to attack them to say she died fighting. back in the conditions we found my dad smadi would dreadful a really painful awful humiliate in the greatest humiliation a human being could receive from anyone. to find your father in this state thrown on the ground naked mistreated told it. shouldn't they be the ones who take care of us. who should care for the good and the honor of
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colombians. we are talking about a crime committed only to show the world in the u.s. that their defeat in the green well they're actually cumin innocent farm assumed workers who are doing good to the country. 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 and if so they should bring criminal charges against them if instead they are guilty of negligence of judy. indiscipline in this case too it shouldn't form the country that this was the cause of their dismissal and then there's
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a very interesting inquiry by a center dealing with the declassification of secret documents in the us 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 a cable from the u.s. embassy in. the talk back here at a parent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to
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the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas in combat and over a mile sometimes their department investigation by instructs me now and there precluded strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues will be. the leading recipient of us or period in the hemisphere probably. for the rest. through the ninety's through the years. for the for the worst human rights issue but those two factors tend to correlate one thousand nine hundred nine hundred ninety four again in one thousand nine hundred seventy and they're talking about this body counts and drum know myself that i'm not surprised that in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation. and that they haven't done a thing like agent that they explain. and how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and
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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 the paramilitaries who closely with whom for the last five is devoted to extortion kidnappings and recruiting of minors that i mean nobody not you know they don't care if they have no regrets about trampling over international humanitarian law you know money they make money with international drug dealing. the support of the significant increase the capacity of them you know. which has extended a kind of purity over the country many things are reduced like so at least in the. urban areas you're going to increase the river if you choose to that has to be. one
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of the largest in turmoil this is the illusion of the world. for me. the second this. is the cia document central intelligence agency it's a intelligence memorandum from january nine hundred eighty four colombian counterinsurgency steps in the right direction and that's one of the reasons they produce these documents is for a little bit wider dissemination in the government has been fifty men for some years. in the military. training officers used to go through the state board. those who speak for them there's rushnell. the military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians in guerrilla areas cooperating with their contacts related paramilitary groups at a time. skin suspected guerrilla sympathizers and killing captured that it's. so
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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 for the postseason for them so it. is to shift north of the training. regime to the girls that are free from bush move. and if you go to the sea it is true that in europe they knew about these activities they knew they were happening and knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet. u.s. aid continued to flow.
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in quantities are rich. 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 rich should go on the support of the disease but. the will for the earth for the ship are worried that if. that ship moved on she wouldn't leave the country on the loop with. close rules that period for us. to ensure their way to the fullest miserable. who they have who have the good kid and social role model here with google.
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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 them several legal actions have been undertaken allowing the identification of people responsible for violating human rights. that. my brother's name was. he was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights which is part of the state crime victims association where it was killed with two gunshots. he was burnt capitated knifed and his internal organs were extracted they also broke his legs. all this only because he was promoting an initiative that touched upon troublesome issues and was starting to bring certain truths to the surface. there are hundred thirty five thousand
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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 though there have been one hundred thirty five cases of executions committed by police officers and executions known as false positives. the access to the justice system very difficult that first of all because of their economic situation. it's difficult for them to get a lawyer. victims are socially segregated many live on the
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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 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 intimidating people who want to report these things saying that those who report false hoods will be prosecuted. the problem is that everyone has the right to turn to the legal system to report something. we're the first who want to inquire into these cases and find out if they really are cases of fossils
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at two pm but here is was already there. waiting for us. they made us go to the chicken kira barracks to prove we were family. but it 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. they were was dug out at about four. xander at four thirty. in the park we heard people saying also 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 it all the 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 them off as positive knowing that these people have a family what is safe to go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you 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 against that and they've got
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no idea of the pain their 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 extradition 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 significant social and political processes in colombia. peace cannot be built. on
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