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a report on our cheap. download the official anti outlook change. called touch from the i.q. some still. life on the go. video on demand all season long cold calls an r.s.s. feeds with the palm of your. question on the call become not allow it. see in the struggle against criminals to be confused with cowardice in facing the. we also cannot allow this to store of effect a missile tames by killing innocent victims will be a much. better day we decided to present our documents. we had meticulously prepared for several months. because there were various
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important circumstances in the field of human rights including the visit of the un high commissioner for human rights. just. as. if i mean by the way our earlier in the government finally made up its mind to take decisions it should have taken years ago but if it is an action that the ministry of national defense. but he has decided to withdraw from active service. and summoned to court with the use of discretionary power. the following members of the army as he intimidation and the head. with a bad day officers and servicemen were deprived of office. as well as known commissioned officers. including generals you know that. it was them they were located in those very areas and belong to those brigades which we had reported to
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you as having the highest number of crimes against human beings. might your handed out major general the people had none of those would overthrow the commander of the seventh division. and brigadier general cortez franco who was a. commander of a second division. in media during a media show on october twenty ninth you're going to have to be a. big target of us as i'm treated as as a response schoolma'am. who just tolerated those deaths only one piece of the somewhat. from what we gather this is an administrative position that despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office here. this led to the opening of several court cases. and to arrest warrants against members of the army it's only it's a political decision why the suv public opinion luckily it stopped at that
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moment because if they had carried on they would have had to throw out a whole division commander said 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 those phenomenon. that we have counted over twelve hundred fell so it's positive those victims formally reported a such or were formally recognized as victims during our investigations. the question is can it be valid as has been documented such events that took place 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 scenario report. it says that the region with the most false was positive most
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cases in two thousand and eight. both by and. mater. he. is fifth or sixth. but it was the commander of the second division who paid for all the pulse was positive was case well this cannot be done by just small groups on their own initiative. where it's an issue but 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. piece don't imagine a patrol on the battle grounds and they need some peasant or guide in the area. back over there this isn't your. he's the one who planted mines. tells you that he
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planted the mines if i killed one of your manapul. he's a fart civilian brings food to the guerillas a commander who's leading a platoon. and who saw a brother in arms die of the previous day on a mine planted by back a piece might think of arresting a person and also then simulate a fight with that person leading to his death this is my father's house it's the way he lived and grew you come. and pineapple he also had some cows and pigs he was here all the time he was a farmer and the computer was fond of him one morning when i got a call telling me to come here because there were men in the house and nobody knew why that happened. if he was on enough of your letter because in the normally it was a very alarming and distressing situation because we didn't know anything about that
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where he was what they'd done to him this service man 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 to she's a guerrilla fighter and that is if you're really a 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. the rules are only come on t.v. everything please where the baptist was there talking about where the weapons. was. going was. called bull's eye was this possible. they have no right. to you know they had to leave in langley is to simulate to lie to say she was
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a guerilla man had to come out to attack them to say she died fighting. back and the conditions we found my dad smadi were dreadful. really painful awful humiliate him the greatest humiliation a human being could receive from anyone. to find your father in this state thrown on the ground mistreated. did our. shouldn't they be the ones who take care of us is one who should care for the good and the honor of colombians. on the analysts he has on that we're talking about a crime committed only to show the world in the u s that their defeat in the green well they're actually killing innocent farmers and workers who are doing good to the country. as in the you probably because they're incapable of finding the real
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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 if so they should bring criminal charges against them if instead they are guilty of negligence of judy or in discipline in this case to it shouldn't form the country but this was the cause of their dismissal not in the film there's 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
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dead. especially when you. press the gun. on. earliest document as for making this is a cable from the us embassy and. they talk about here it occurred june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported in the press that on that day it killed nine guerrillas in combat and overrun last month and their department investigation. and their proclivity yet strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military to be. the leading . period in the ministry probably.
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through the. oh it also will for the worst human rights records and those from the bill. to the core of the one nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety four again in one thousand nine hundred seventy they're talking about this body constant drone know myself that i'm not surprised that in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation just another they haven't done a thing like agent can explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as i realize and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary operations to go. through and through going to support the. militants in the loosely for the last five park is devoted to extortion kidnappings i'm
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recruiting of minors who got a majority. they don't care they have no regrets about trampling over international humanitarian law the money they make money with international drug dealing with the with the support that could go from the significant increase past with music want to know. which it was just in the. euro to do with many things required through the at least a few. earlier if there was one or two groups of them with refused to use the closed schools are we going overboard because currently the stage protrusion were. truthful. and we should. all. take care of the cia document central intelligence agency
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etc intelligence memorandum from january twenty fourth colombian counter-insurgency steps in the. right direction and that's one of the reasons they produced these documents is for a little bit wider dissemination in the government has been fifteen years. of military training and one of the who used to be the staple. of pollution if they were interested in the original reason and military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians in guerrilla areas or cooperating with their contacts or later paramilitary groups it's hard skin to suspect a real a sympathizer and killing captured it's so pretty direct statement from the cia tonight including four and you know where they could be start that's together these sort of analytical documents these are summaries of raw intelligence that they gather from different sources go to the polling station for you know who. is to shift and look at the really. reason to go get
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a free for more than for the who's going to go to the see if it's good for you if they knew about these activities they knew they were happening to tell you about winks to paramilitary troops odd and yes u.s. aid continues to flow. in quantity rich. and the fact that it has it is hoping to get the russian intrusion she wants released or who should the formal. go to move the resources will not in order to have absolute under somebody who could go on the scrutiny as you mentioned. who will if you were her the ship were you.
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on the live. close. to the work. this is the tenth meeting organized by the national movement of victims everywhere in the country media thousands of people have taken part in these meetings and thanks to them several legal actions have been undertaken allowing the identification of people responsible for violating human rights. that you know one
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of my brother's name was whole well paid is kind of being as it was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights which in is part of the state crime victims association with you know he was killed with two gunshots. there's a week if any was burnt capitated knifed and his internal organs were extracted they also broke his legs. all this only because he was promoting an initiative but 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 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 also
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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 that 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
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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 photos hoods will be prosecuted. our problem is that everyone has the right to turn to the legal system to report something. we are the first who want to inquire into these cases and find out if they really are cases of fossils positive was. these if they are we shall take all necessary steps and every responsibility but if they are not and they add to the long list of fake reports. to.
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the. war we left got to go hour or two or. more after one hour inch of war. i thought two pm and here is was already that. waiting for us on the phone they made us go to the chicken clear out barracks to prove we were a family. nobody is they gave us a document there which we needed in chief or to collect the bodies. we gave the
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documents to the mayor and then we went through on earth the gandhi's. they were was dug out and about four. out xander at four thirty was any of us that are walking in the park we heard people saying those relatives that's gone it was 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 and off as positive as knowing that these people have a family what is say's they go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you want to meddle earn it by the sweat of your brow not just by killing the first guy you come across to be condoled for the colombian people on against that and they've got no idea of the pain their cause into their relatives so if we don't reconsider be 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 extrajudicial killings in our country. countries like britain the us france and germany.
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are sensitive to the facts that are any aired 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 support peace cannot be built. on impunity. live below.
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