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region specially for the mix and promise is exceptional of the treaties for developing fuel business in russia will come to the similar regions for more information log on to the contest and some more of that all you. this is almost see a turkey egg spelled the israeli ambassador and cuts in military ties with tell of the over the country's refusal to apologize for the deadly raid on like gauls about the last may the downgrade follows the lead to a finding for the u.n. investigation into the attack that reported these plans israel using excessive force and. may be in rebels closing in on kidnappings the last remaining stronghold of the tunnel himself a man on the run we explored one of the secret bunker is revealing that the fugitives and skate groups could stretch way beyond the rebels week. and the
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international war crimes tribunals chines it's all seeds of find that it wasn't seen at all interview with a former bolton is general right cable outage who's on trial for genocide and it could be a crucial piece of evidence. for the latest news in around thirty minutes time for you all next that all special report to say with. go to are you dog when you meant a black soldier you know he had a cap you had a special k. a shake you believe and you got to the point where you could even chill what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive forget your handshake he definitely could tell people see your cup because everybody knew everybody had their little knew what to. do you know the problem oh my god i'm glad i don't know we're going to spec back. this. week you know we got to come. back. to
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slap this really good story first test that high and then the down this way like a sony always does but if you're like a break come down on your route right. there you go that's it better to leave the player oh my specialty bases big a big big big big big thing going to jail for the power would it be just what we think we're going to leave but they were going to jail the door just put on. roman jail because it just agi them and the well being it was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of violence in the in this prison a lot of stuff the only people with a gui pretty dire situation. a group of being mates got together and we decided that we were going to escape from this place. what happened was is that good
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results alone be. a lot of. cost to go in there and if they broke down the jail and they were just made a lot of people being killed i'm surviving so. i was going to survive no matter what. so did you come to the deceased and some. you know when you're laying on your back that you can't move for thing in a day and hope you have a lot of time to think. think about what you did you know that you don't think that you're going to people that you you know. people. i mean there's always an. image you don't. think that you see their mom you're seeing what i saw what was
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going on in the room or the states due to running down the streets and we were in the same county uniform and i got to remember. they've beaten up on people. where it a point where we're over here and they're all people that were here and at the same time to help you guys were in the same identical uniform that i'm not here and you're basically upon. black people and dogs are running cakes on the street. in the summer of one thousand nine hundred eighty eight army national guard troops were sent into american cities as thousands of black people rioted following the assassination of martin luther king. that spring troops were used against and for demonstrators at the pentagon. then in august soldiers at fort hood were told
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they would be sent to chicago where antiwar demonstrations are planned for the democratic party's national convention. we just come back from fighting the vietnamese now they want us to fight the americans. the night before the truth is supposed to leave there was a meeting of black g.i.'s they gathered up in a parking lot in the first armored division section and they were out there all night in a parking lot talking you know in a room like a rap session or rally why they were opposed to going to chicago we were making it clear that it was a general south thing going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black jazz administrate feel brothers came up and really start a quarter no need about you know discrimination and unfair treatment and that getting a rake in needed and about what was happening with the war as the meeting stretched into the night for hoods commanding general showed up to talk to the g.i.'s and say
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i'm just a two star general let me go or talk to my boss and i have an answer for you in the morning so you know we just relaxed you know which is silly i was sent. me a sad to hear. you know you know what they had to go and o m p's all around us me and you know what are you going to be tane impedance you know they came at us with this i get. it right you would have been. and in the area renowned he opened his formation and crew for him peace come in and grip a brother and take him back in the shitter he had screaming in the. sea. and they were court martialed brought up on various court martial charges but it scared the hell out of military then they want to round and went through a roster of all the units who were supposed to go and took
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a considered to be quotes of version so a number of people myself included would not send. one of the most infamous and the nine hundred sixty cargo police brutally attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic convention although the army it's an extension of right control troops to chicago from fort hood they kept them on the street. is no longer certainly the g.i. . the military had a problem on and it was about to go from bad to worse. we were in. the practice line i believe it was a long line of a sudden we see this commotion kind of started being in the line and then start come up towards us and we could see people like one guy would turn to the guy behind them and they would be this excited conversation and that guy would turn to the guy behind him and finally big i in front of me got the news and he turns
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around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who's killing women and children the viet cong he said no we are. march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division and to the village of me lie twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women and children lay dead brutally and wantonly murdered in cold blood around the world to me live massacre would become the touchstone facts of the vietnam war. for over a year the american military covered up the me like massacre claiming only enemy soldiers were killed and when the truth was finally brought to light by journalists the highest ranking officer blamed and prosecuted was william calley a lieutenant. in a cramps detroit hotel
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a new organization vietnam veterans against the war held an unprecedented investigation that exposed a much deeper truth i think that one or soldier investigation was to try to point out it wasn't really in the fence of cali but it was going after the notion that the policies of the u.s. military created things like me lie ok but it was a policy it was both a written and an unwritten policy and the truth has to be told you can't walk away from the truth you can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say oh this is a the words they used back then an isolated instance of average behavior you were just coming home saying i'm against the war you're saying this is what we did this is how we did it this was a crime this was wrong helped people to really cross the bridge and to see us in a way that i think the anti-war movement had not seen g.i.'s before america went through. went through a choke ok because they didn't want to believe that these things occurred in the
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name of the american people supposedly is supporting freedom and liberation and democracy throughout the world and the resister of the slaughter is turtle and aim slaughter so i think the question was why they go after cali were cali was doing precisely what we were all told to do we were in vietnam essentially ok which is kill them all and sort it out later. i'm going to study i had a friend who was it was in a vice with narcan group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village there was my you will see how they act so i went with them and. they didn't find any enemy but they found a woman with bandages so she was questioned. about she was questioned by six so i mean the way we questioned her was that she advantages. the shadows she was about twenty times when she was questioned. and court date. this guy came over who was you knowing him he was
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a former major was in the service for twenty years made he got hungry again and came back over working with usa id aid international development and. he went over there and rip her clothes off into the night been. cut from a bridge on all the way up well just about of her breast in order organ doubt completely out of a cavity and threw him out and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel every bit it's going off her body and left her there as a sign for something or other and i went and listened to three days of testimony and absolutely came away from an emotionally drained and floored by i never grasped even up to that point how powerful was the genocidal plans and strategy of the us towards the vietnamese people on every level. you know whether was agent orange and the dow chemical and we can figure it napalm because
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the napalm wasn't sticking to that the skin and us. and that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality. this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and bands at the recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation of planned observances so thousand g.i.'s march the first year right outside the base they told people off limits and they told people that if you want to get arrested for store owners downtown were putting up plywood coverings on their windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change your car. because you know we thought making fun of your enemy was. the second year nine hundred seventy one.
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three four. very conceivable indicate our army that now remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse with individual units avoiding or having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers. and dispirited were not be amused. by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers to serve. in the face of the term and i'm president today to war movement and the military here. collapse the
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nixon administration announced the policy of v.n. in the sation an effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army while american jets been part of north vietnam from the sky. nixon promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive content. business richard boyle hired a space to tell others from the cambodian border sitting up longer than a dozen trucks the first kept a lot of people kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows you were out here. like. two batteries or a tourist was to be in on groceries like nobody we don't even. just meet american troops we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army could night that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got the word american troops on the border. will you please explain how democracy.
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changed why no. like you go back on the north vietnamese were had to be a true regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding fire banks points nothing and no. batteries we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing of order. to try to hire a hired man to go on to set us up the captain crowed and ordered six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission and he sent six guys out against two regiments and they said we're going to do it we're going to go and the only option it was was to get word out to the outside world and they wrote a petition at the ready we are under siege in favor of a space we are faced daily with the decision of whether to take a court martial law courts dissipate not fancy ground in the event of mass
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prosecution. where units are only hope would be. a fight but by order dad company pulled out they sent in another company they'd heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refuse to fight and after that no company no scripts will fight and said look we're not going to fight you are. two more problems to winding down the vietnam war than just holding the enemy and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the morale of g.i.'s who know they're going on the knob soon enough it has produced plenty grunt insubordination shooting of officers by their own men and a definite actress called fragging and the two a purpose in my mind was he did to get me or intimidate him myself and
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all others in authority in the company in the time sergeant giunta then later saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the violent attacks on authority have come to be known as fragging and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is fragged as we call pigs. i picture talking about your senior enlisted men in your officers that's correct that's what most common terms. mean forced to rely almost solely on the air war by nine hundred seventy two the united states launched an unprecedented barrage on vietnam dropping more tonnage of firearms on that tiny country that were used by all sides during world war two and
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with the assault coming mainly from america. sailors and airmen became the center of the g.i. movement on the u.s.s. coral sea twelve hundred signed a petition demanding the ship stay home and san diego california home of the carriers constellation and kitty hawk spawn a movement led by a group of navy officers and enlisted men who truly believed what would stop that war was one of the soldiers start fighting it still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors and enlisted people as we sat around and brainstormed about what kind of a nonviolent action can we take that can actually touch sailors. around and restart the. biggest ship in san diego it's the most impressive our. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not a naval ship and it's really part of airpower and we used to attack as it's it's
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a weapon of a boeing weapon aggression. the original concept came well let's do something where we allow the people on board that ship to cast a ballot as to whether or not they think they should go back to be it not let's just hear their voice and then we said no this election should be held every shopping center in st diego county and every safeway store ought to have a little polling booth outside and we had to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. they all make a day they will pay for the day looking. back i was a carrier qualified aviator and i give me a lot of credibility with people earned or not or and even though i hadn't been in
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combat. people would give you a certain amount. creedence of course because they knew all about our military function. yes ma'am. lol. i think i painted it. right around the question why do you people that look so weird like they're. just look normal up. there was this inside out we would call it where we would where we were collecting more and more of the sailors to get them involved to give them a fork and if they want to end the war nations want. there's nobody from the captain of that ship to the mayor of the cities or did not hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on us senators are
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commenting on it you know even if the city codes for that ship to stay we're still going south again because that's because every new ship says well i know there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go over the military is full of malcontents because it didn't listen. while denying that the g.i. movement even existed the house internal security committee of the united states congress held a series of hearings in one thousand nine hundred one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly and deeply that movement had spread that same year the f.c.a. show tour de janeiro despite being banned from military bases worldwide. the show
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performed to japan okinawa and the philippines for over sixty thousand soldiers and every stop to the stage with them we can no longer remain silent about frosty's an injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and all the petty harassment the servicemen and women i made two hundred day after day. of this policy will get hurt because there are a. lot for me to get. doctors anti-war g.i. because they do not agree with us with the. media and code bravo air and ground troops in cia vietnam as well as in korea open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama. i mean it seems unthinkable now that we could have done this and that you could
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have a hall full of guys. with their fists in the air sung happy . that we had come to acknowledge their reality. i read earlier you posted. and refused to kill. you said no man was you know. what he's hiding folders to be. i used to love to watch the faces of the g.i.'s when she sang it was like this shell attention would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath some. standing strong on closets. what.
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is true. then asked me for the one nine hundred seventy one just five years after how it levy and all adopted sloan acts of protest thousands of vietnam veterans against the war converged on washington d.c. and threw their medals onto the capitol steps. we had to fight to take the stand. you know it's kind of a unique opportunity it's very it's very rare i think it in anybody's life that you have an opportunity to really think that you are changing history that you're a part of history at first you couldn't voyageurs protest in a war that. we're thousands years in nineteen so they thought they did know how to react to that because they thought there were
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a bunch of them to go out there and probably all just talking but how many of martyr i will learn. so much so just spent a day after day after day you know just people talking about you know what it's all about and how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we will go forward change the world better it will in due course it won't change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that did leave much room but to change the world you know people so we keep going even you cannot keep going back to vietnam because i tell you what the other side does they're always going back and they have to go back the hocks you know the patriarchs they have to go back because and they have to revise the going back because they can't allow us to know what the what the back there really was continue think about this shit and then you say. get.
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extra gear for next check. this government pushed me into this shit. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran if you are what you're a veteran in something. like i am. keen to coach a veteran of the massacre of someplace or another you know. knowing there's no crime. and so don't talk about killing. those mazing i mean it is many many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam actually there. and then spoke out against it and demonstrated pictures and pictures. in. their theory. that if there had been a hundred i would have been made that there were thousands is just.
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incredible and. brave people. to. thank. you. for your. good and bad because. the way that you would.
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read me like. that. think.
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