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giving a millisecond in india and i'm an independent explain i'm going to keep one of them to be a newborn uneaten billion down the looming the pregnancy and minimum of the company community in the to be able to get to be given to. me about. it as you can see. born in old regions of colombia state fights all armed groups with the same zeal. to.
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determine a positive is let's say a colombian one insisted it consists of assassinating a person. killing innocent victims. from the city rejects on outcasts are enticed with job offers both legal and illegal they are quickly recruited recruited here taken to other areas of the country and murdered they take them from own region to another they dress them up as warriors after killing them like guerilla fighters i make it seem like they died in combat so i passed them off as fighters killed in battle then they tell us they were guerrillas who died in combat that's why they are known as. such. and i wasn't sure he was dead i was sitting right here when i asked my mother.
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replied the. point who did he go off with. i thought he'd gone away with another woman but she told me he'd been found dead. but i said i couldn't believe it until i saw him i wouldn't believe it it's a lawless act. or form of torture but it is carried out according to this procedure therefore it's presented as a positive result but it conceals a breach of the law. was not positive those are killings committed by law enforcers. of the killings or past successes in the colombian internal conflict which the government denies and simply present as a fight against terrorism. more than. in december the coordinator of what tek
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a investigative police. i. informed me that something serious had happened to alexander. he said he wanted to see me. when we met he told me alexander had died on september seventeenth at five am. in chief. during a clash with the army. i think it's part of what i once called the tater ship of the positive within the police forces . that by that i mean that the instrument the barometer to measure the effectiveness and the results of the police forces is the number of positive all. the cases we have registered between january two thousand and seven and june two thousand and eight are five hundred thirty five unlawful executions reported to our organizations. at first there was
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a decree known as the cap to create relating to rewards for operations of national importance. and that. in other words troop members were given significant sums of money if they shot individuals who were thought to be guerrillas. and what the country wasn't told is that the when the decree was revoked a secret directive was a shoot that kept the same rewards for every enemy shot. so the soldiers have to achieve results their careers are sest according to performance if they've got nothing to show and they have to be created. i repeat to you the government's firm will to achieve a country without corellas without paramilitaries or drug trafficking or corruption .
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they gave me judges number the josh was due and we became and i contacted him it was already late so i called him the following morning we arranged to meet the next day in the human rights office she was going to meet the representative and invited me to the meeting i said all right i went i gave my evidence and asked to see the photos she asked me why i wanted to see them i said i needed to be sure it was really him so he showed me that. i have this to two in my hand the letters c.n.n.
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which stand for can stands in the way or was she has the same to to hear. alexander was a year older than me when he died he was thirty one. he suffered from a mental disease called bipolar affective disorder he had a son a young boy of my boys he showed me this tattoo. and i just felt that i wanted the ground to open up below and swallow me out. it was so tough. i just put my hands over my mouth and couldn't say anything. she came up to me to take back the photobook. the photos were scant that but i told him no sir i'm strong enough to look at them. there's a body. i disappeared from the neighborhood. at about four pm. he was killed the following day eleven hours later at about five am. it was found
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about one hundred sixty kilometers away when. he left me the photos and i kept looking at them. they'd put an old rifle beside him. and i noticed he had a white t. shirt and a jacket that had given him. alexander was mentally ill he was never in the army he didn't know a thing about weapons and they placed a machine gun beside a really powerful weapon. next to the other boy they put a less powerful gun even though he was good with weapons. he knew everything about weapons how could he have just an old rifle while alexander who was sick someone who had a few screws lose how could he have a machine gun. that killed them and they put weapons beside them
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it's easy. with it does this through the case exploded precisely one month after the defense minister declared september ninth national human rights day. he also said that unlawful executions were practically over. and the defense minister told us on september the ninth just over a month ago what follows some continue ignoring reality they try to sell a false who'd government policy regarding extrajudicial executions as they
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improperly called they use their numbers due diligence to my eyes police forces but when these reports are actually investigated nothing is ever found that. tembe or be events in so our job were revealed. these events on earth the truth can no longer be hidden. cases of young people disappearing and so watch them found murdered in a kind in the sometime dare region of. were published. it was the last straw. the reports made public the overwhelming natural
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reality of positive and extrajudicial killings which. many people didn't believe. it started to become clear that it wasn't just isolated cases but a model the scandal showing the fullest trustee of the fossils positivist case finally exploded. i had the opportunity of presenting the problem to president to rebel on various occasions in the past i've been watching both him private and in meetings in washington and. he never wanted to discuss the issue. he would get angry and nervous whenever it was raised. it would discredit it as an international smear campaign. has a new strategy. every time a warrior is shot dead it is immediately clear at home and abroad. that it
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was an extrajudicial execution. the norm yet to. be at the seafront must be a has the largest number of murders of union members in the world simply because they were doing their job that. is the colombian state for peculiar store colds and sociological reasons as slowly turned into a criminal apparatus for the men of the very least for the whole institutions of the states have taken on this form he made the first through torture then with the desaparecidos but the creation of a higher military groups that turned into
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a strategy which has had the form of a very strong national structure for my goodness when i lived with this this then the practice of extrajudicial executions and forced displacement. that's for the forms of social control in such an elitist and all sorts hereon country and in such a polarized society turns violence into a tool or regularize ation. was. released oakland beyond this state. if
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colombia has generated policies that favor a massive systematic violation of human rights this. has very serious deficit's as far as justice is concerned that a general rule in colombia is impunity. for the policies of secure a data democratica which propelled this government are founded on the militarization of society in other words on the growth of the war machine and the colombian army has grown rapidly in the last few years it has doubled in strength because of the armed struggle in the country so there is a whole range of controls and internal systems we believe ought to be reformed and improved it is also characterized by the creation of a secret police which persecutes opponents so as to turn the paramilitary groups into a structure so even if they have been apparently disbanded they will continue to operate very intensely controlling a good part of the national territory. if they call me and i reply i am
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a colombian secure a dad democratic is a good thing a problem is that there are bad elements in the army in the police and in other bodies they aren't applying the law as they should what's wrong with a secure adad democratica is the rewards given to servicemen when they turn up with the positive. being no rewards policy is necessary to fight crime. but we really should revise our policy. if we don't and it is either interpreted wrongly or fulfilled in a criminal manner in india is in we know the more people that are shot the more convenient it is for a military unit or individual soldier because it allows them to get home leave to go and see their mothers and girlfriends but it also allows them to advance in their careers to win the respect of other service men. it helps gain decorations
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in. this it was a first took part because of a neighbor of mine. is name was fabulous son one son tiago. my job was to go around bars with him to help sell cocaine. on january third or fourth two thousand and seven he asked me for the first time to help him take a bunch of young guys someplace. when we got there we got a call from the army i didn't know it was for the army i only found out there and then but those kids were for the army that. would look easy when you first. rumors going around the neighborhood about these guys say they get the money straight out of the hands of the army people they deliver the kids to. school but.
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the army buys them like merchandise fabio would give me four hundred six hundred or seven hundred per person leave me a buying just over there. a friend came looking for him at about five thirty pm and lent lady ask him who are you looking for he answered with a blond kid out of the small window on the second floor and came out and they stand it somewhere in the park talked for a while and then left that was the last time anyone saw him. look it is what they were saying in the bars was that they would give you two million pesos for every kid. you just have to convince them by promising a job and simply take them out of town and hand them over to the army. they say he'd been offered to pay eight hundred thousand passes plus board and lodging. we went there to pick up two kids. it was about seven or eight pm and there was an
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army lorry waiting for us. and we got out of the taxi with the kids would be a went over to speak with the army guys while the two kids waited. and then just the two of us got back into the taxi and headed back to kenya. and as we know they ended up lying in a field somewhere armed and dead. and it was good for business too because if they shot dead an enemy. the soldiers would get home leave and then we could sell them coke. so we get two deals for the price of one. that's what these people were saying in the bars. because they are people without
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ordinary feelings. they just go around telling people how they sold them and how much they may. have been the one they have got no problem telling you what happens to these kids. the procedure was always the same when taken to our county or and when the order came from the battalion to deliver them would hand them over to the army. after they got in touch with an actor and they told me i had to go to iraq to stop custody prestigious to get custody of the body wants to give us new to some to
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it was a goal to barbacoa at about nine am. there they gave us the medical examination papers for my brother alexander them with. their legs on that and for no barrel the other young man who died with him. at the medical examination office they gave us the death certificate and the woman who was the medical examiner there were cold war. so they'd give us the bodies with thought that if we did arrive in time look at have buried them in bogota the same day. if they'd injured him because what i got is that they hit him with one or two bullets. and on the death certificate it says death do you just several
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gunshots. a. lot of the most saddest part of the story was when nobody arrow's mom asked me the meaning of death by acute hemorrhage of anemia. because she didn't understand them and. i thought the clearest thing to say was that they bled to death. at kutiman ranjit and they mia we asked what it was and they said they bled to death both of them actors brother and. you know and they died so close to the hospital in the city wouldn't. being logical for the army people themselves even if they were real criminals to take them to the hospital to try and rescue them but instead they left them to die like dogs in the middle of a field. why did they leave them to bleed to death because it was more worthwhile the tway it was worthwhile to let them die so they could show them off as upon some
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