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closes r.t. from moscow manager kevin zero in these are all top stories for you tonight and u.k. is reeling from several nights of violence on its streets says the pm friends to shut down online social networks during the unrest meanwhile britain asks if the government will merely breaches in the social system playing for instigating the disorder. israel approves the building of new settlements in the occupied territories just weeks before palestinian authorities are expected to ask the united nations for recognition of this state. and with the future of the u.s.
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and european economies on the constant scrutiny of the office your insight into whether the west couldn't weather this raging storm. or will do so may in thirty minutes time here on this channel next though our special report on how and why members of the colombian army turned on their own people killing innocent civilians a special report on r.t. next. we cannot allow efficiency in the struggle against criminals to be confused with cowardice in facing the ground and not go out of the our body but we also cannot allow this distortion of affect on lists of tainted by killing innocent victims will be. bad day we decided to present our document. we have meticulously prepared it for several months. because there were various important circumstances in the field of human rights
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including the visit of the un high commissioner for human rights. says. as he. says this. money either way it's going to our earlier the government finally made up its mind to take decisions it should have taken years ago and if it is an action that the ministry of national defense. has decided to withdraw from active service. and summoned to court with the use of discretionary power. the following members of the army as e.m.t. because remember the heads. that day officers and servicemen were deprived of office. as well as known commissioned officers. including generals. that. it was that they were located in those very areas and belong to those brigades which we had reported to you as having the highest number of crimes against human
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beings. my you are headed out of major general the people had members what alberto the commander of the seventh division. brigadier general cortez franco who was a white quinn one commander of the second division. during that media show on a tobar twenty ninth minute because it would be. a target of us as i am treated as air assault schoolma'am if. we just tolerate it those deaths. do so. from what we gather this is an administrative position. despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office here i do write this letter to the opening of several court cases. and to arrest warrants against members of the army. it's a political decision why pursued public opinion luckily it stopped the bab's.
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because if they had carried on they would have had to throw out a whole division commanders and quite a few paid 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 report of the subs 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. but i asked the same question and it happened in all divisions it happened everywhere. i read a sinner purports. it says that the region with the most pulse was positive most
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cases in two thousand and eight. by antioch ear. he. is faith or six. but it was the commander of the second division who paid for all the also as positive case 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 it's almost in comprehensible. 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. he's the one who planted mines.
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tells you that he planted 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. and who saw a brother in arms dive the previous day on a my plan to buy back a. i think of arresting a person and also then simulate a fight with the person leading to his death. and 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 handed him one morning and i got a cold telling me to come here because they were men in the house and nobody knew why that happened. if you were on a massive 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've 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 like 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. from the rules of. everything please read about this what was the talking about where the weapons. was when the. fires were fought. over with bull's eye was this possible. they had no right. the younger they had to leave in langley is to simulate to lie to say she was
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a guerilla man who'd come out to attack them to say she died fighting. back in the conditions we found my did smadi were dreadful. really painful awful humiliate in the greatest humiliation a human being could receive from any one person and to find your father in this state thrown on the ground naked mistreated told. our. shouldn't they be the ones who take care of us in is one who should care for the good and the honor of colombians. school in the annals he doesn't know we're talking about a crime committed only to show the world in the you airs their defeat in the green well they're actually kill an innocent harmless and workers who are doing good to the country. because that was in the you probably because they're incapable of wind
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in 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 or indiscipline in this case to it should inform the country that this was the cause of their dismissal you know there's a very interesting inquiry by a center dealing with the close vacation 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 what we do is press the governor to release documents. earliest document that i can as for me this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo stop the talk back here apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that they killed nine guerrillas in combat and over a mosque on time their department investigation by. strongly suggest over at the time were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues would be. the leading. and that's probably. were the
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worst. through the night. and yours overall for the good for the bush team approach your. characters to the core of the one thousand nine hundred ninety four again in the united seven they're talking about it's body counts to drown myself that i'm not surprised but in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation. and the they haven't done a thing you know your age when asked to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where the bodies are dressed up as to realize and presented as killed in action on and this and the idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration with. the food through one of those requesting them the local or even the military if you look closely during the boom for the next five fark is devoted to extortion of kidnappings i'm recruiting of minors that i'm
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talking to you know they don't care if they have no moral threats about trampling over international humanitarian law. they make money with international drug dealing with the support the good with the significant increase in passengers and quantum which has just been the. head of the security with over the many things you really do because we control what we do you are barely through it to grease the record from the keys to that is. when the largest probably this is the one who truthful in the. midst of. the hatred. of the cia document central intelligence agency its intelligence memorandum from
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january twenty fourth colombian counterinsurgency staffs in the. correction yes and that's one of the reasons they produce these documents as for a little bit wider dissemination in the government has been for me for some years. of military aid from the officers used to do this they. wanted to see if the current players were actually losing the military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians and really areas cooperating with their contacts related paramilitary groups or starts going suspected real sympathizers and killing captured that's. so pretty direct statement from the cia tonight seemed pretty poor 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 or the totally different sort of company these can shift to move to the green. position for the government for the three groups
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who for the conclusion. i think was mostly good for google groups they knew about these activities they knew they were happening and knew about links to paramilitary groups and yes u.s. aid continued to flow. closer reach. i mean the fact that it has a goodish over to the russian tradition she wants them to be struggles for who should be with the moment. but it can move the resources it would not it would have to either somebody retreat into one of the most brutal heat or.
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who will feed or rebel for the short range of. let's move. on the loop. through all. of. this. this is the tenth meeting organized by the national movement of victims everywhere in the country needed 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. you know one of my brother's name
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was it is kind of a mess because he was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights which indicate that as part of the state crime victims association with you know he was killed with two gunshots i my this week if any was burned capitated knifed and his internal organs were extracted they also broke his legs. but. 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 you think there are hundred and 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 alls. tim's find 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 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're being persecuted or outcasts. being a victim is shameful. 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
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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 based 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. you know we are the first one to inquire into these cases and find out if they really are cases of fossils positive alls. 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 for cheaper or. more after one hour of war. i thought to pm but here is was already there. waiting for us but on the they made us go to the chicken kiddo barracks to prove we were a family. somebody is they gave us a document there which we needed in chief to collect the bodies. we gave the
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documents to the mayor and then we went on earth the bodies. of beirut was dug out at about four. xander at four thirty. am in the dark walking in the park we heard people saying also relatives that scum it was as if they didn't know us they obviously repeated what they had heard.
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i am.
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regarding alexander's case we have always asked state for transparency and justice
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. 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 he wasn't a criminal you know i don't understand why the government picks people and passes them off as positive as knowing that these people have a family when i ses go out there and look for the real going real men and if you want a medal earn it by the sweat of your brow not just by killing the first guy you come across to be can bolt 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 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 actually judicial killings in our country that countries like britain the us france and germany.
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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 us 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 the police cannot be built so olympic unity. live . live. live.
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