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it's five thirty pm in moscow these are the top stories on archie by let's get some more cities across the u.k. while in london thousands of police managed to restore calm after three days of disorder the government social policies are blamed for britain's worst rioting in years. america's financial woes quick see its crown as the world's top cop economy pass to china in less than four years investors are expected to turn more often to asian markets to escape the economic turmoil in the u.s.
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and europe. as russian officials turn a blind eye to complaints about pedophile salts members of the public wants their own vigilant crackdown on sexual predators. now aren't you follows the journey of two colombians as they try to find the truth behind the deaths of their relatives in a mysterious military operation. we cannot allow efficiency in the struggle against criminals to be confused with cowardice in facing a. lot of the. we also kind of allowed this to store of effect of this of tainted by killing innocent victims will be. bad day we decided to present our documents. we have 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 he
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says. as he. says this. by the way and spend an hour earlier the government finally made up its mind to take decisions it should have taken years ago and if you think it is an action that the ministry of national defense. reed has decided to withdraw from active service . and summoned to court with a useable discretionary power. the following members of the army as he individual landed heads. but today we offer service and service men were deprived of office as well as noncommissioned officers. including general saying. it was them they were located in those very areas i belong to those brigades which we had reported to you as having the highest number of crimes against human beings. my you are headed out
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of major general b.p. go ahead of numbers with roberto the commander of the seventh division. the brigadier general of course has franco who is a white quinn. commander of the second division he'll. be here during that media show on a total of twenty minute wait a minute of the. big target of us as i'm treated us as irresponsible man. who just tolerated those deaths in iraq if he so much in the from what we gather this is an administrative position. despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office here i think that it has led to the opening of several court cases. i'm sure arrest warrants against members of the army. it's a political decision why pursued public opinion luckily it stopped the bats. because
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if they had carried on they would have had to throw out all 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 fall so it's positive as phenomenon. we have counted over twelve hundred fell so it's positive those victims they formally report of the subs or were formally recognized as victims during our investigations. the question is can it be that as has been documented such events that took place are isolated cases or isn't this a logical contradiction. of i asked the same question and it happened in all divisions it happened everywhere. i read a cynic report. it says that the region with the most false was positive most cases
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in two thousand and eight was. this proposed by antioch here. he. is fifth or sixth. but it was the commander of the second division who paid for all the also was positive case all this cannot be done by just small groups on their own initiative. it's an issue as can be seen requires very sophisticated planning at each level. and why is it not a scandal. this is. crazy. because it's almost in comprehensible. he's going to imagine a patrol on the battle ground and they meet some peasant or guide in the area. says that guy over there is in your piece he's the one who planted mines.
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tells you that he plans of the mines that killed one of your men. he's a fargo civilian and brings food to the guerrillas. a commander who's leading a platoon. saw a brother in arms die of a previous day on a mine planted by baquet. i 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. and pineapple he also had some cows and pigs he was here all the time he was a farmer and the computer was found him one morning and i got a call telling me to come here because there were armed man in the house and nobody knew why that happened. if you were on a bus and you let it was an anomaly it was a very alarming and distressing situation because we didn't know anything about
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that where he was what they'd done to him this serviceman wouldn't talk they wouldn't answer any of our questions they said he had a gun this lady slept here so you have to take her away too she's a guerrilla fighter like that is a guerilla man i am to. nothing look nothing not even a drop of blood. not even a drop of blood he too came outside and killed him. it's unbelievable. i was with who was on my knee where you can't eat everything please and where the weapons the weapons they're talking about where the balance. was on the. plane was. full of holes how is this possible. they had no right. or you know they had to leave him like this to simulate to lie to say she was
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a gorilla man could come out to attack them to say she died fighting as you know i think the conditions we found my did smadi were dreadful that i am in a really painful awful humiliating the greatest humiliation a human being who received from any one person and to find your father in this state thrown on the ground mistreated told that it. shouldn't they be the ones who take care of us is one who should care for the good and the honor of colombians. school in the annals he has i don't know we're talking about a crime committed only to show the world in the you airs that they're defeated and agree that well they're actually killing innocent harmless and workers who are doing good to the country. because as you know you probably because they're incapable of wind in the real worries and killing them.
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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 if instead they are guilty of negligence of judy or indiscipline in this case to it should inform the country that this was the cause of their dismissal. there's a very interesting inquiry by a center dealing with the close of occasion 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. especially
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what we do it's. the release documents. earliest talking about i think it's from this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo. they talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that they had killed nine guerrillas in combat and sometimes their department investigation. and that strongly suggest over at the time were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues would be. the leading. period in the.
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work. through the ninety's. yours oh it also would go for the worst he would write you were homeless you know. pushed to the core of it one thousand nine hundred ninety four again in their community seven they're talking about this body counts going from enormous off it i'm not surprised but in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation that was in the they haven't done a thing like agent picked explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as gorillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce audience actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration one can get a. good thriller basically i think that the military the military the small closely for the last five fark is devoted to extortion kidnappings i'm recruiting of minors who kind of mentality look you know they don't care they have no moral
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gretz about trampling over international humanitarian law and they make money with international drug dealing with the support the good of the significant increase the pacifism quo going on which was just in the. height of the euro to do for the country many things are really good for clues to good. or bad or good from the into three groups of them with a group. or what was one of the largest personally distills to the world who cared for me. let me just simple so i'm going. to. take. it was going to go to the cia document central intelligence agency so intelligence memorandum from
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january to a fourth colombian counterinsurgency steps in the. right direction and that's one of the reasons they produce these documents as for a little bit wider dissemination of the government has been for information. of military training one point three used to be with the stable door. to push the current through to bushnell's. the military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians or guerrilla areas cooperating with their contacts or way to paramilitary groups as tyson suspected sympathizers and killing captured residents. so pretty direct statement from the cia tonight security for and you know where they put these documents together. these sort of analytical gawkers these are summaries of raw intelligence that they gather from different sources hold the total solution for the. instant shift move through to really. listen to the government for three or four who for the conclusion that if
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you go to the see if. you look at they knew about these activities they knew they were happening clue about links comparing military troops and yet just u.s. aid continued to flow. in quantity rich countries on the track it was those who didn't want her to be the regime true she wants to go to the scandals or who. will form. a bit of the resources we would want to go to also under somebody who should include in this group as you mentioned but most of the wolf who are over for the ship were going
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to. on the. rules that. this will. have. more. this is the tenth meeting organized by the national movement of victims everywhere in the country alison's 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. to get one of my brother's name was paid is
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cut again as it was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights. is part of the state crime victims association with he was killed with two gunshots imo this week if any was burned capitated knifed one of them 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 that. 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 but 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
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as positive. terms find 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 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 are being persecuted or outcasts. being a victim is shameful. as. well 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 and they say things like i can't talk
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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. are the problem is that everyone has the right to turn to the legal system to report something. we are the first one 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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the. we left got to go our courtship or. after one hour of war. i thought to pm but here is was already there. waiting for us on the phone they made us go to the chicken kiddo barracks to prove we were a family partly somebody is they gave us a document there which we needed in chief or to collect the bodies. we gave the documents to the mayor and then we went on earth the gandhi's. mayor
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justice. a 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 you know i don't understand why the government picks people and passes them off as because it leaves knowing that they speak will have a family what i say is go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you want to meddle earn it by the sweat of your brow just like you in the first guy you come across to be controlled for the colombian people i'm against that and they've got no idea of the pain their cause into their relatives so if we don't reconsider the arms 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 this sad stage of extrajudicial killings in our country. countries like britain the us france and germany.
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are sensitive to the fact that 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 goes 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 impunity. live . live. live.
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