Amnesty International organization
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Amnesty International exposed
Unification Church documented
“was being used as a black site for interrogations and torture following the CIA's installation of a Chilean dictator. In 1979, Amnesty International formally made the accusation, and a guy by the name of Weisenthal would later temper his ac…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 47:51
Amnesty International exposed
Jean-Marc Arruda book_quoted
“Jean-Marc then composed a statement as the military had requested. On his statement, he wrote, Freedom is the most important thing for a person or a society. I am leaving Brazil for my freedom, but I will continue to fight for the freedom o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 33:16
Amnesty International exposed
Los Pepes host_asserted
“The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:07
Amnesty International spied_on
Kosovo guest_asserted
“Amnesty International has went in and documented much of these atrocities, but they are only used when they support the regime and they are sidelined when they don't. As a matter of fact, Amnesty International was where I went to do the res…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 43:28
Amnesty International spied_on
Bechtel guest_asserted
“And you can talk about they also do a really good job of documenting sexual abuse of these contractors like Bechtel and some of the large defense contractors that go in in the aftermath. That that reading is horrific. The child trafficking,…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 45:20
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In August 1986, CBS television reported that three senior National Guard who had been linked to these terror death squads received training at the police academy in Phoenix. In 1984, Amnesty International reported the following, quote,…
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was being used as a black site for interrogations and torture following the CIA's installation of a Chilean dictator. In 1979, Amnesty International formally made the accusation, and a guy by the name of Weisenthal would later temper his ac…
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Later, a judge ordered Amnesty International not to publish a book with stories of the two former secret police agents who actually performed the torture inside the commune. John Loftus, who has written extensively on this, has written abou…
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Four, the director of Amnesty International declared that no country had a worse human rights record than Iran under the Shah. The CIA responded by increasing its support for the Savak. A small group of elite families close to the Shah assu…
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And keep in mind, we're only like 15 years out from World War II. Before the year was over, Amnesty International had sent representatives to Greece to investigate the situation. From this came a report which asserted that torture as a deli…
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It was torture, however, which most left the mark the seven-year Greek nightmare. James Breckett, an American attorney, went to Greece with Amnesty International, wrote the following, quote, a conservative estimate would place not less than…
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Amnesty delegations described a number of other torture methods, among them being beating the soles of the feet with a stick or a pipe. After four months of this, the soles of a prisoner's feet was covered with thick scar tissue and cripple…
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and other violations. For these reasons, and particularly for the Hunters getting rid of parliamentary democracy, the Council of Europe, at the time 18 European states under the Commission, was preparing to expel Greece. The Council rejecte…
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to the other states to prevent the expulsion because, of course, the U.S. was directing all of it. The State Department said today that the, this is a quote, that the U.S. had deliberately avoided tasking any position on the question of con…
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that only the United States had the power to bring about change in Greece because, of course, they were behind the current regime. Quote, this is from the Amnesty Report, quote, American policy on the torture question, as expressed in offic…
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Are we? We're Americans. Behind me, there is the government. Behind the government is NATO. Behind NATO is the U.S. You can't fight us. We are Americans, unquote. Amnesty International adds that some torturers would tell their victims thing…
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Afternoon, everybody, or evening or whatever time zone you may be in. But thank you, Colonel, for all this information. You did mention an organization I hadn't heard of in a long time, and that is Amnesty International. So what are they do…
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Amnesty International has went in and documented much of these atrocities, but they are only used when they support the regime and they are sidelined when they don't. As a matter of fact, Amnesty International was where I went to do the res…
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And you can talk about they also do a really good job of documenting sexual abuse of these contractors like Bechtel and some of the large defense contractors that go in in the aftermath. That that reading is horrific. The child trafficking,…
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If you just went to Amnesty International reports and put that side by side with our Gladio operations, because in every instance when they have a Gladio operation, there is going to be a subsequent Amnesty International report because ever…
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focused mainly on the paramilitary, but there is a human trafficking piece and a torture piece that goes with every one of these incidents. And we talk about it generically. We don't concentrate on the human misery that has been left in the…
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I don't know. Again, I do know that they have done really good work, but I don't know at the very tippy top of it that they couldn't have.…
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For a great space. I'm learning a lot. I must say, I'm usually not as well versed in the Central and South America and Greece. So thank you very much for all the information. I just had a personal experience with the Amnesty International f…
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15, 14, 15 years old, something like that, and we had a presentation from some representatives of Amnesty International who came, and they were very interesting indeed, because they looked like the typical, stereotypical hippies, basically.…
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But it's just from my own experience. I haven't looked into it that much from a wider perspective. But I just wanted to add that little one. Yeah, that's a very interesting observation for two reasons. If you have the mission of documenting…
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Prevent other people and not, prevent's not the right word, but you have, by saying that is your mission and you actually doing that, and then you safeguard the information and only let out the pieces that you want out, it's kind of limited…
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Then, in addition to that, you can have a separate entity that is the propaganda arm that knows what the real facts are because they were gathered, but then uses the real facts like we just read, where they take them and twist them exactly …
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And I think, P. Grande, what you just hit on is exactly the way I was trying to struggle to say what the impression I got from Amnesty International. It's just like NIH. All of the information is there. But for those of us who don't go and …
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and which had proclaimed its independence after Portugal relinquished its control. It was the beginning of a massacre that continued into the 90s. By 1989, Amnesty International estimated the Indonesian troops, with the aim of forcibly anne…
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In 2022, Amnesty International reports they harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists in both the EU and the US. And in 2019 and 20, the Hong Kong protests mobilized counter demonstrations in Australia and Canada, according to The Guardian. The…
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Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands was before the European Commission of Human Rights accusing Greece of violating all of the Commission's conventions. Before the year was over, Amnesty International had sent representatives to Gr…
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members of the security battalions became heroes of the resistance. Okay, so we're 180 degrees out. It was torture, however, that would undoubtedly mark the seven-year Greek nightmare that was oversaw by Papadopoulos. An American attorney w…
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The State Department said today that the U.S. had deliberately avoided taking any position on the question of continued Greek membership in the Council of Europe, which is absolutely a lie. Also, the Amnesty report concluded, the American p…
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which declared a war on drugs, but only Pablo Escobar's network. An Amnesty International report described Colombian state struggle for control of the cocaine cartel. This is an actual quote from the report. The prosecutor general's public …
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The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…
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Jean-Marc then composed a statement as the military had requested. On his statement, he wrote, Freedom is the most important thing for a person or a society. I am leaving Brazil for my freedom, but I will continue to fight for the freedom o…
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would be tortured by Dina at the colony in the years following the coup. The methods utilized were chilling. In a 1976 Amnesty International report, they charged the colony with maintaining underground prison cells, which, by the way, was c…
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In one especially disturbing incident, Amnesty International said that dogs had been trained to commit sexual aggression and destroy sexual organs on people of both sexes. It would seem that Dina or someone in the Chilean state or the US CI…
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And oh, by the way, a lot of this was funded by pieces of USAID under the Office of Public Safety, another one of those oxymorons. So whatever they name something in the government, it's exactly the opposite. The Office of Public Safety was…
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The Office of Public Safety was established in 1962, which was basically the year after USAID was stood up and almost exclusively staffed with, quote unquote, former CIA officers, which we know there is no such thing. And it was these Offic…
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on a new constitution for the dictatorship in Chile. Blumenwitz reportedly visited the colony with Basel a few times. Eventually, he would intervene on behalf of the colony to block Amnesty International from publishing a report that docume…
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This was war, some would say, but was this really what the coalition of the willing went to Iraq to do? No, it was not. Had the U.S. government enabled the fiasco and had Congress allowed it to happen? Well, they were certainly funding it. …
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And DynCorp, Blackwater, Westrop, that's just some that kind of stick out to me. And also there were people like Human Rights First and Amnesty International that were supposedly there to represent the victims. And dang, that was loud.…
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The group insisted that self-regulation was not an option. War on Want, joined by the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Amnesty International, among others, said that its concern was that private military companies would become embedded in th…
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for Amnesty International told The Guardian, quote, if the government does purpose, or excuse me, does propose a self-regulation system, it would effectively grant the companies immunity to, or whatever they do. The arms trade has been poor…