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to find the truth behind a desk. and a mysterious operation. special report we cannot allow efficiency in the struggle against criminals to be confused with cowardice in facing them. we also cannot allow this distortion of effect to miss by killing innocent. day we decided to present our document. we had 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. says. this. is. the way our earlier the government finally made up its mind to take decisions it
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should have taken years ago that. the ministry of national defense. has decided to withdraw from active service. and someone to court with the use of discretionary power. the following members of the army. officers and service men were deprived of office as well as noncommissioned officers. including generals. it was that they were dictated to and those very areas. belong to those brigades which we had reported as having the highest number of crimes against human beings. my you are handed out major general. alberto commander of the seventh division. brigadier general cortez franco who was a. commander of the second division. during that
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media show on october twenty ninth. of two meters they targeted us as treated us as. we just tolerated those deaths. from what we gather bases and administrative decision. despite the criminal investigation we are pursuing with the prosecutor's office here. it's led to the opening of several court cases. i'm to arrest warrants against members of the army . it's a political decision by the suv public opinion but luckily it stopped at that moment because if they had carried on they would have had to throw out the 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 false positive us phenomenon. we have counted over twelve hundred false positive us
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victims formally report of a such or 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. i ask the same question. it happened in all divisions it happened everywhere. i read a c.n.n. report. it says that the region with the most false positive most cases in two thousand and eight. by i'm. not a b. . is fifth or sixth. but it was the commander of the second division who paid for all the positive case all this cannot be done by just small groups on their own
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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. currency. because it's almost in comprehensible. imagine a patrol on the battle ground and they meet some peasant or guide in the area. over there. he's the one who planted mind. tells you that he planted the mines that killed one of your men. is a farce civilian brings food to the guerillas a commander who's leading a platoon. saw a brother in arms die of the previous day on a mine planted by back. i think of arresting a person and also then simulate
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a fight with the person leading to his death this is my father's house it's way he lived and grew you could learn 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. on a massive. was an anomaly it was a very alarming and distressing situation because we didn't know anything about that where he was what they'd done to him this service man wouldn't talk they wouldn't answer any questions they said he had a gun this lady slept here so you have to take her away she's a guerrilla fighter and that is a guerilla man i am to. nothing look nothing not even
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a drop of blood. not even a drop of blood the two came outside and killed him. it's unbelievable. come on tape everything please where the weapon is where the weapons they're talking about where the weapon. that was. going was. full of bull's eye was this possible. they had no right. to you know they had to leave these to simulate to lie to say she was a gorilla man had to come out to attack them to say she died fighting you know i think the conditions we found my dad smadi would dreadful i mean a really painful awful humiliating the greatest humiliation
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a human being could receive from anyone. to find your father in the state thrown on the ground mistreated. shouldn't they be the ones who take care of us. who should care for the good and the honor of colombians . we're talking about a crime committed only to show the world and the u.s. that their defeat in the green well they're actually cue an innocent promise and workers who are doing good to the country. probably because they're incapable of finding the real warriors and killing them. the government's responsibility after doing serious internal investigations should
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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 too 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 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 dead. sensually and what we do is press the government to release documents on us foreign policy national security policy.
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earliest document that i had from one thousand nine hundred this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in. the talk back here at a parent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day it killed nine guerrillas in combat and sometimes their department investigation by instructs young couldn't you know and their proclivity strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues will be. the leading recipient of this war period in the hemisphere probably. for the rest. through the night ninety years ago for the for the worst human rights you have this year but those two factors tend to correlate one nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety four again in one thousand nine hundred seventy and they're talking about this body counts and
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drum know myself that i'm not surprised that in all these years in washington they were perfectly aware of the colombian situation. and that they haven't done a thing and that they explain. and how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration whom you have to through our basic tracking them of the military the paramilitaries who closely but for the last five is devoted to extortion kidnappings and recruiting of minors at it with that mentality you know they don't care if they have no regrets about trampling over international humanitarian law you know money they make money with international drug dealing. with. the significantly increase the capacity of the club you know. which
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has we're just in the kind of purity over the country many things are reduced like that so at least in the. urban areas you're going to increase the river if you choose to be one of the largest in terms with this is the world. record for. the second. year of the cia document central intelligence agency it's a intelligence memorandum from january nineteenth for colombian counterinsurgency steps in the right direction and that's one of the reasons they produce these documents is for a little bit wider dissemination in the government has been fifty one percent years . of military. training or officers used to go through this there are.
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those from the state department there's. the military has a history of assassinating left wing civilians in guerrilla areas cooperating with their contacts related paramilitary groups it's time. skin suspected guerrilla sympathizers and killing captured that it's. so pretty direct statement from the cia in one thousand nine hundred four 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 for the postseason for the movies which. is to shift north of the green to the reasons of the government that are free from bush who feel good. if you go to the cia through the you they knew about these activities they knew they were happening to you about links to paramilitary groups and yet. u.s. aid continued to flow.
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quotas were reached. i mean the fact that it has it is hard to. refute you should assume it's going to skim it would should be we'll. put it to the resources we would want to go to also understand by the richard cologne on the score of the disease but. the wealthier of the ship were a. good ship moved on she wouldn't leave the country on the loop with. close rules that period thirty. two inches away the first measurable. to the health who would not get included and children the whole little girl would
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begin to build. this is the tenth meeting organized by the national movement of victims everywhere in the country 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. my brother's name was. he was the first president of the corporation for the defense of human rights which is part of the state crime victims association he was killed with two gunshots. he was burnt to capitated knifed and his internal organs were extracted they also
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broke his legs. only because he was promoting an initiative that touched upon troublesome issues and was starting to bring certain truths to the surface. 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 false as positive.
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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. 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. mobile 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 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. getting worse because the government has started intimidating people who want to report these things saying that those who report
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false hoods will be prosecuted. the 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 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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we left got to go our for cheap. after one hour of war. at two pm but here is was already that. waiting for us. when they made us go to the chicken killed our barracks to prove we were a family. 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 to on earth the bodies. not even a row was dug out at about four. xander at four thirty. in the park we heard people saying relatives that scum. as if they didn't know us
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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 them off
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as positive knowing that these people have a family what is safe to go out there and look for the real gorilla man and if you want a medal only buy this went off your brow not just by killing the first guy you come across to be can bold before the colombian people come against that and they've got no idea of the pain their cause into their relatives so if we don't reconsider the 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. 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
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all that would be done this week said british pride see a backlash for how they handled the chaos the government turns to america while the labels take on patrol themselves. saul school of the united states has its credit ratings for the first time in a century sending kids into the spin all say. the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear weapons and could they win in iraq and afghanistan could the nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain victory in lebanon and gaza it could nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. dismisses iran's nuclear weaponization saying atomic bombs are obsolete and never solved anything since collusive need to vent. and sell those that involves three years this week.
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