tv [untitled] August 14, 2011 5:30pm-6:00pm EDT
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well in the headlines this week and now for you this hour a lot see cracks appear between politicians and police over how riots in the u.k. were handled by minister david cameron turns to us experience for help while fed up local communities turn to vigilantes. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies are america's long treasured that score gets the chop sending world markets into a chaotic tumble. three years on the surface says he
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remembers the victims of a short but bloody conflict when georgia north and offensive to reclaim its old territories hundred start in the ensuing five day war on the republic is still trying to recover. we have the top stories of the past week in half an hour for you with my colleague. before that our special report on a false positive or scandal which exploded in two thousand and eight she reveals how and why units of the colombian army were killing innocent civilians that's next . really. going to. be going to be on the computer you're only going to be. reasonably well i don't think we've got it out well it will begin to go as you can see. corny and old regions of colombia state fights all armed groups with the same
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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 pass 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 false positive will. keep. coming back. but i got here in tuesday and i wasn't sure he was dead i was sitting right here when i asked my mother. they are all replied they found him. could he go off with. i thought he'd gone away with another woman much she told me he'd been found dead. it was tough but i said i couldn't believe it until i saw him i wouldn't believe it it's a lawless act. for form of torture but it is carried out according to this
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procedure therefore it's presented as a positive result but it conceals a breach of the law because of the movement not the false was positive those are killings committed by law enforcers. of the killings or past office successes in the colombian internal conflicts which the government denies and simply present as a fight against terrorism and three more. in december quarter neighbor of quite tech a investigative police. i. informed me that something serious had happened to alexander he said he wanted to see me. he told me alexander had died on september seventeenth at five am. and she wore boy a jury
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a clash with the army. i think it's part of what i once called tater ship of the positive within the police forces. my bad i mean that the instrument the barometer to measure the effectiveness and the results of the police forces is the number of positive. 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 a decree known as the cap to creat 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 guerillas . what the country wasn't told is that the when the decree was revoked
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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 that they have to be created. by repeating the government's firm will to achieve a country without a will is about paramilitaries or drug trafficking or corruption. you. don't. believe in the you.
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think give me judges number and the josh was due and we became less 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 through and i gave my evidence and asked to see the photos she asked me why i wanted to see them and 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 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 found out
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that i wanted the ground to open out bellew 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. interest in me the photos were scant but i told him no sir i'm strong enough to look at them. those are the voters i disappeared from the neighborhoods. out 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 posters and i kept looking at them yet they just put an old rifle beside him. and i noticed he had a white t.
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shirt and a jacket that 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 weapons how could he have just an old rifle while alexander who was sick someone had a few screws loose how could he have a machine gun. that killed them and they put weapons beside them it's easy. i.
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was a presence through the case exploded precisely one month after the defense minister declared september ninth national human rights day it was. good 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 is some continue ignoring reality and they try to sell a force who government policy regarding extrajudicial executions as they improperly called and they use the numbers due diligence demise police forces but when these reports are actually investigated nothing is ever found that. in late september be events in so our job were revealed. these events on earth are truths that can no longer be hidden.
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cases of young people disappearing and so watch them found murdered in a kind yard in a sometime their region of north and then claim a tower were published. it was the last straw. the reports made public the overwhelming and unnatural reality of false was positive force and extrajudicial killings. many people didn't believe. 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. i had the opportunity of presenting the problem to president
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a rebel on various occasions in the past i've been watching both and private and in meetings in washington and in bogota and he never wanted to discuss the issue. he would get angry and nervous whenever it was raised. he would discredit it as an international smear campaign. oh the gorilla has a new strategy because. every time a warrior is shot dead it is immediately claimed at home and abroad. that was an extrajudicial execution. for them to be at the. scene for a has the largest number of murders of
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union members in the world simply because they were doing their job that. is the colombian state for a peculiar store cold and sociological reasons has slowly turned into a criminal apparatus for the middle east and at the very least 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 most but not for an eyelid we've worked with it this way then the practice of extrajudicial executions and forced displacements . in the forms of social control in such an elitist and all sorts hereon country i've been such
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a polarized society for turning violence into a tool for regular isolation. was . released local room beyond the stay. 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 that a general rule in colombia is impunity. for the policies of secure adad a democratic a which propelled us governments are founded on the militarization of
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society in other words on the growth of the war machine. and the colombian army has grown rapidly it was 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 west turn the power military 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 in or a based or i reply i am a colombian in a secure adat democratica is a good thing in 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 security job democratica is the rewards given to servicemen when they turn up with a positive. no
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rewards policy is necessary to fight crime. but we really should revise our policy way and if we don't it is either interpreted wrongly or fulfilled in a criminal manner it 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 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 of these young men and of some service men where. the.
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job was to go around bars with him to help sell cocaine the on january third or fourth two thousand and seven zero 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 and that was i didn't know it was for the army i only found out there and then those kids were for the army that. would look easy when you just know you're in as 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 or we were going americans you the army advise them like merchandise bobby i would give me four hundred six hundred or seven hundred per person leave me a bind just over there. a friend came looking for him at about five thirty pm the landlady asked him you know you're looking for he answered with
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a blond kid out of the small window on the second floor and came out and they stand it somewhere in the park talk for a while and then left that was the last time anyone saw him. 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 a job and simply take them 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 log in. we went there to pick up two kids is adopted it was about seven or eight pm and there was an army lorry waiting for us. coming 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. on the sick and then just the two of us got back into the taxi and headed back to. be with and as
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we know they ended up lying in a field somewhere armed and dead. it was a minute and it was good for business too because of the shot dead an enemy. 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. you know this little that's what these people were saying in the bars. because they are people without ordinary feelings. they just go around bars telling people how they sold them and how much they made i mean all of the what they have got no problem telling you what happens to these kids. and love me more because even the procedure was always the same if we take them to i can you know 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 the actor and they told me i had to go to iraq to stop custody prestigious to get custody of the body once they gave us new simply livery we 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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in. to. get out we go to barbacoa at about nine am. on. the. air they gave us the medical examination papers for my brother alexander. delic sound of your mind and for no beryl the other young man who died with him. and the medical examination office they gave us the death certificate and the woman who was
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the medical examiner there were cold war. so they gave us the bodies with thought that if we do arrive in time we could 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 gunshots. in. the most saddest part of the story was when nobody arrow's mom asked me the meaning of death by acute hemorrhaging anemia or because she didn't understand. i thought the clearest thing to say was that i bled to death without accu team
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ranjit and the media we asked what it was and they said they'd let to death both of them actors brother and. you know and they died so close to the hospital and the silly little boy wouldn't. being logical for the army people themselves even if they were real criminals 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 that way it was worthwhile to let them die so they could show them off as find some suppose he keeps.
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islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country by nine eleven the bush administration could not get any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terror they decided to take these people property. and labeled as terrorists someone he'll destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being i in my mind it's not terrorists real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with her cub scout troops that's the. sound. guys. signed. up.
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