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don't don't. it is half past the hour here in the russian capital this is our t.v. period headlines an attack on a pro regime a news channel in syria kills the softer president assad declares on national t.v. the country is in a state of war the government raided the headquarters of the privately owned part of the t.v. channel twenty kilometers outside damascus that was earlier on wednesday. u.s. a senate committee passes a bill which imposes travel and economic sanctions on russian officials it believes to be implicated in human rights violations the route was sparked by the death of lawyers sort of given its key in two thousand and nine while in
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a russian prison. the security operation for the london olympics is under fire for overshadowing the sport of the games organizers being criticized for flaunting defensive machinery and still the main part is said to be but. now a special documentary called senseless death. then i made everybody ready.
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to. get out if you were going up to san francisco you will walk about fifteen miles a day for sixteen days from here to san francisco that's right will arrive on march twenty seventh the third anniversary of paces is death and the study of the part of the full.
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of gold. it's. the for.
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me notice that my name is fernando suarez dills so a lot of good for you i'm the director and founder of the gradual stick of peace project and i'm fighting against militarism against the war just like my son alberto's what is does a lot of us died on march twenty seventh two thousand and three he was not an
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american citizen no he was the first american soldier from mexico to die during the invasion of iraq i was . chased i'm fighting two of the. the next war to keep other young people with hopes and dreams ceilings can swing among his friends like my son his so saying and from being grabbed by the claws of american militarism. put islam each i fight for peace he's born in a bus. to mr. and i think with you. that. just give me kind of big will you say let me then yes blame. so many of my lap descend on your back my son died on the run don't agree you don't
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agree we don't have to look for other names my son ethan is in the arena i don't know what is crap we are going to find a four year old sarah. you know coming to me with my sony at marine died in iraq and diesel fuel original i'm sorry. i'm sorry about your size but he will always be remembered to bring cause yet. i repeat the independent i support of the war in my opinion to work in the necessary that i support the marine corps says pacific peace but belief. in what you call it . for truth the boy. that we will serve thanks for your if you will find out for the rest of us. that think you are.
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because his source was an ordinary boy. it after yes he was mischievous. like to tease his sisters but he loved them a lot. wanted to be a policeman until when he was thirteen he met the military recruiters in san diego . and you. a little later told them that in v.n. rolled in the u.s. army later if he could join the drug enforcement agency and become an international
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police officer. do this you know when we made the decision to move to the u.s. under pressure from pacers and olivier the only way. you could get ready they wanted to join the u.s. army. i just thought of this you see we sold our home and our laundering business in tijuana and we started a new life here because i don't and we have enough akki. she said but about he exercised kept his weight studied to get good grades and then when it's going to consume me. for going to a recruiter told him if he served for just one year get out of it qualify for the da. so i finally give my consent to feed him and he enlisted when he was seventeen and a half and all the see james who made you. think
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he was a camp pendleton when nine eleven happened to give you. a movie out why did you like thousands of other parents we thought there will be a war a dose of dexterous just maybe a. few minutes every first he said to my father in four days i'm leaving for iraq. as an invented journalist in his unit i met his views on the very first day of the war going to go back. he was part of
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a two man sniper team just hours before the invasion he climbed a guard tower in the kuwaiti iraq border search for a rocky mine layers on the other side. of his beat up the store. you get your. guy did. exactly one week after we shot this video zeus was killed when he stepped on an unexploded u.s. artillery. place but today i want to tell you about my son hey source or so i did you might
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identify with that. unless you're he was born here and t o y n a s d went to los alamos grade school in a file a month after that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh of mighty . good to have defeated i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen and a half he made up a nice get out and he got that's the legal age for a roman in the us army he made the iraq war began on march twentieth and you don. on the twenty eighth just eight days later the soldiers came to see me. i mean. they called me at work and i came home. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head.
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i swear to those words destroyed my life. but that is the three days later a journalist told me. so you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire into explain what happened and he. face. it during the night of march twenty sixth many planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. you see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk to you it doesn't matter what i do will never come back. we need my grandson will
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never see his father again. but in each of your faces i see heysel. it was he visited more than five hundred schools around the world. because to go the next generation at the us. must have your say this only you can save your life when he goes but a soreness get put inside a vessel broke every that. good thank you thank. you for this. to. end the war now. we have walked from tijuana to demand
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a ban on the dishonest school recruiting. stop the killing of young latinos. people of santa ana i am going to march to come together as one voice i have no more fear no more fear you have the power. i. thank. you i thank you so much my fight goes beyond the iraq war when the young people should stay in school and when that. shouldn't become soldiers and fight for calls noble or no it's already legal or illegal. to. report that this is just these young people should not end up like his as you note that us and i think it's nothing to be read to be.
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i. don't know where on day four of the peace march that we began until one on sunday morning a. good thing for me will was. ten to fifteen miles a day everyone is welcome we're not just latinos everyone who supports peace i start coming up to the but. thank you thank you who or who thank you. thank.
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god people around the world are very interested in us and chicanos and she'd gotten us why because a lot of us are fighting and dying in iraq right now a lot of our party and there's a you all may know are in the military. we work hard to create jobs so that latino's don't have to serve in the u.s. army said recently that we try to tell the truth about military service. because the recruiters painted distorted picture of it. in bangalore so he gives his students going to.
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sleep through his or literature and chicano studies about mexican americans in california. and i met for nanda suarez del sol law in two thousand and three just after his son's death as we . that's when we began to work on ways to counter military recruitment. i mean this means a lot somy because i'm a vietnam vet. a slave it on the you know. look at them was in one nine hundred ninety door in the clinton administration the military realized there were a lot of young latinos they could target for recruiting and they must book the most on us and want. latinos but as one of them because. you could give iraq war put pressure on the pentagon to step up recruiting and
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conduct workforce not the one that that because so they targeted people without immigration papers that i had been documented now those i can escape and. a lot of kids arrived without papers but they grew up here and. only sells needle and they went to school here that he was. they're bilingual and bicultural somebody who died was. schools must give recruiters their students' names on addresses and phone numbers on this meet that was. less is willing to sink in if they refuse and they lose their federal funding. so the pentagon has direct access to all these young people. for part of the.
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history there's no family privacy. the recruiters call them up every night the run meant they lost brothers he spun out latino parents are up against recruiting drives all over this country in a place. that while. i was was. i. was. one of the most but alice liked where in front of san ysidro high school just three miles from. me. and military have an office inside our uniforms. don't.
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get it here ninety percent of the students are latinos. i did this of c.d.'s i stand in the instructors encourage the kids to train as junior reserve officers there. are many that he is on that i mean you're going to end recruiters finish the job listing them in the arm. me it's him out of london about a slogan is using data into his. memo saying one of his studio pentagon figures tell us that latino's and african-americans estime serve in the lower ranks of the u.s. military said reese's meet that is. the entry will be medals among the first soldiers to die at least three were hispanic spano. the first marine killed in iraq there was a guatemalan not a u.s.
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citizen.
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pono died for like total died for a war that should never have been fought for a cause that never existed. and for an enemy that was never there. when total left here is a young adult he went to the states looking for a change in exact status and he looked for a better job better life. what toronto was always looking for was family ever since i took tono in that seven years old he had this whole inside is hard that he was looking for family and it was it was it was it was bleeding in his heart because he was so. longing for his mother and for a father who loved him for his sister who had gotten separated with i think tono fell for the whole idea of joining the marines you know be one be proud be you know
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fall in love will give you a family. not only was he one of the first americans to die his killed by friendly fire. tony was a very smart boy who was a genius i mean he really was tonal was a genius tono was creative thoughtful pensive he wrote poetry. one of the most incredible kids i've ever raised in raising eighteen thousand people. my concern. was to get this good looking kids' health back to
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get him back into school and to me it was obvious he was living on the streets get him off the streets and. the boys every now and then as i've been raising them throughout the years they say wouldn't it be great to go to the states and i say no you're not going to get a visa you don't have land you don't have bank accounts you don't have a job you don't have family they're not going to give you a visa make your future here. and i always discourage that because it's very very dangerous and once you're there you're going to get the dirtiest lowest paying unskilled jobs that nobody else wants to make you future theory to cure what. tono threw out to me a couple trial balloons that they were going to split and i said don't neither couple trial balloons don't. next thing i know where his tone i haven't seen him for a couple days. he takes. he probably hitchhiked up to the mexican
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border illegally crosses the mexican border from guatemala into mexico and keeps going. on to the. next thing i know i'm in my office in bismarck north dakota. my on line a comb my yahoo account a news flash first soldier killed the squad i'm on or. hope i didn't know. click on it comes up good looking. for centanni of materials. i just sent back and even just sat back a shocking you think and. why did you do this why did you join the military why didn't you ask me why did you get killed. another heartbreak the funeral is coming. i'm just related from the funeral. i'm disinvited from the
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funeral. everybody grew up with tonal to new tone on who are friends of tony nobody's let him play who's at tunnels funeral. dignitaries say oh so the people from the ambassadorial circle ministers officials the government people people who didn't know him. they were friends on behalf of precious little george w. bush and we have a word ready for nation that is well over two percent you were different to forgivable last year was naturalization given in recognition of your brother's bravery and the sacrifices healing for me. now i'm thinking there's just flash of anger isn't thinking you know mr ambassador . that's right i raised this boy and you're telling me i can't go to my son's
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funeral i've got a file of letters that i've sent to you in which this boy is calling me dear daddy dear papa you don't love your son tony. if you're disinviting me from this funeral . in god's name are you. sure is that so much given to you each musician on the mark with the downing of a turkish military jet by syria may prove to be the tipping point allowing nato to force regime change in damascus as. well into the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.
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