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coverage. look. look look look. look. look. the emissions free to critique a should three cars four charges three. majors three kids three kids two priests. the old sleep on. the street mediocre. sleep. today. game fled the from these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada
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term goals positive is let's say a colombian one insisted it consists of assassinating a person. killing innocent victims. from the city rejects and outcasts are enticed with job offers both legal and illegal they are quickly recruited are recruited here taken to other areas of the country then 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 because they 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 fossils positive of.
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the sun. but i got here in tuesday and i wasn't sure he was dead i was sitting right here when i asked my mother. replied they found him. one could he go off with this is what i thought he'd gone away with another woman but she told me he'd been found dead in the flat it was tough but i said i couldn't believe it until i saw him i wouldn't believe it it's a lawless and. q should 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 so far for both of us if not the fossils positive those are killings committed by law enforcers. of the killings or past successes in the
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colombian internal conflict which the government denies and simply present as a fight against terrorism. more. in december quarter knitter of quite tech a investigative police envoy. i wrote him out of it. informs 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. and she wore a boy during a clash with the army. i think it's part of what i once called it tater ship of the positive within the police forces. 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 force. the cases we have
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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 a decree known as the cap to crete relating to rewards for operations of national importance. in life in other words troop members were given significant sums of money if they shot individuals who were thought to be guerillas . what the country wasn't told is that the when the decree was her vote a secret directive was issued that kept the same rewards for every enemy shot. 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. by repeating the government's spermwhale to achieve a country without guerillas about paramilitaries or drug trafficking or corruption
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. you know the norm. in the you. to. me i think gave me john just a number of the josh was doing with the case and i contacted him but 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 to i gave my evidence and asked to see the
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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 them. i have to stick to my hand the letters c.n.n. which stand for can stands in the way or he 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 mil's the boys he showed me this tattoo. and i just found out that i wanted the ground to open up a loon 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 photo book. interest in the photos were scanned but i told him
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no sir i'm strong enough to look at them. and set up what is your 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 about one hundred sixty kilometers away when. he left me the photos and i kept looking at them. 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 had 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
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weapons how could he have just an old rifle while alexander who was sick someone had a few screws lose how could he have a machine gun. to kill them and they put weapons beside them it's easy. is it doesn't look that the case exploded precisely one month after the defense minister clare september ninth national human rights day you know this is as good as he also said that unlawful executions were practically over.
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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 it for those who the government policy regard in extrajudicial executions as they improperly called and they use the numbers due diligence to my eyes police forces but when these reports are actually investigated nothing is ever found that. in late september the events in so archer were revealed. these events unearth the truth that can no longer be hidden. cases of young people disappearing and so watch them found murdered in i can yard
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in the sometime dare region of north and inclement our work published. it was the last straw. the reports made public the overwhelming and unnatural reality of false was positive and extrajudicial killings. many people didn't believe it. it started to become clear that it wasn't just isolated cases but a model of scandal showing the full atrocity of the fossils positivist case finally exploded a little but. i had the opportunity of presenting the problem president to rebel on various occasions in the past and the watching both in private and in meetings in washington and in bogota. he never wanted to discuss the issue. it would get angry and nervous whenever it was raised. it would discredit it as an international
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smear campaign. oh no it's not a gorilla has a new strategy. every time a warrior is shot dead it is immediately claimed at home and abroad. but that was an extrajudicial execution. i don't do yet. the at the scene for a lumbee a has the largest number of murders of union members in the world simply because they were doing their job and. the scope of the colombian state for purely or store cold and sociological reasons has slowly turned into
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a criminal apparatus for the men of the very least for the whole institutions of the states have taken on this form. first through torture then with the desaparecidos but the creation of paramilitary groups that turned into a strategy which has had the form of a very strong national structure for my good at math and i lived with worked with it this way then the practice of extrajudicial executions and forced displacements . was. the forms of social control in such an elitist and all sorts hereon country and in such a polarized society it turned violence into a tool for regular isolation. was
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. really slow going on beyond this state. if colombia has generated policies that favor a massive systematic violation of human rights just as colombia has very serious deficits as far as justice is concerned i generally rule in colombia is impunity. for the policies of security added them a critical which propelled this government are founded on the militarization of society in other words on the growth of the war machinery 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
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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 a colombian to secure a dad's democratica is a good thing a problem is that there are bad elements in the army and the police and in other bodies they aren't applying the law as they should what's wrong with a security democratica is the rewards given to servicemen when they turn up with a positive. no rewards policy is necessary to fight crime. but we really should revise that policy where we if we don't it is either interpreted wrongly or fulfilled in a criminal manner in here is in reno the more people that are shot the more
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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 and it also allows them to advance in their careers to win the respect of other service men. it helps gain decorations and it often wins them rewards in cash which also end up in the hands of civilians recruiters a vision man and of some service may have. you. been
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. in. for as it was there i first took part because of a neighbor of mine. is near moore's son one sunday ago. my job was to go around hours with him to help you on january third or fourth two thousand and seven abby were 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 only found out there and
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then those kids were for the army that. would look easy when you just know where you are in that's a lot of 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 with the wooden americans 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 a mall five thirty pm and lent lady asked him you know you're looking for and she answered with a blond kid humi into out of a small window on the second floor and came out with a standard 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's. you just have to convince them by promising
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a job and simply take him out of town and hand them over to the army and they say he'd been offered to pay eight hundred thousand passes plus board and lodging. we went there to pick up two kids as of the it was about seven or eight pm and there was an army lorry waiting for us. and the lives that we got out of the taxi with the kids would be all went over to speak with the army guys while the two kids waited. moans and then just the two of us got back into the taxi and headed back to . be with and as we know they ended up lying in a field somewhere armed and dead. and it was good for business too because of the shot dead an enemy but the soldiers would get home leave and then we could sell them coke. there's a young woman so we get to jails for the price of one. and you know that.
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you know this that that's what these people were saying in the bars. because they're people without ordinary feelings. they just go around bars telling people how they sold them and how much they made. or mode of being the one they have got no problem telling you what happens to these kids. lonely mcgraw's procedure was always the same we take into account here and when the order came from the battalion to deliver them would hand them over to the army.
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after seeing the photos they got in touch with actor and they told me i had to go to start casting a prestigious to get custody of the body wants to give us new some delivery went to recover the bodies. once they gave us notice of delivery we went to recover the bodies. which. we left at half past three in the morning. to go to the human rights office.
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it was going to go to barbara koa at about nine am. there they gave us the medical examination papers for my brother alexander with the . galaxy on the limb i know and for norbi arrow the other young man who died with them. and the medical examination office they gave us the death certificate and the woman who was the medical examiner there were culture of war. so they gave us the bodies we thought that if we do arrive in time we could have done repayment the time the same day.
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if they'd changed 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 gunshots. in. my saddest part of the story was when nobody arrows mom asked me the meaning of death by acute emergent anemia that would kill because she didn't understand. i felt the clearest thing to say was that they bled to death. at a huge human ranch and they mia we asked what it cost and they said they bled to death both of them actors brother and. dogs and they died so close to the hospital in the city you know what it wouldn't. being logical for the army people themselves even if they were real criminals take them to the hospital to try
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and rescue them but instead they left them to die like dogs in the middle of a failed. why did they leave them to bleed to death because it was more worthwhile let's wait. to let them die so they could show them off as on some suppose even. h. on our behalf broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.
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