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Marie-Monique Robin (1960-) is a French journalist, who was awarded the Albert Londres prize in 1995 for Voleurs d'yeux, on organ theft. Albert Londres (1884 - 1932 was a French Journalist and Writer. Organ theft is the practice of stealing people's organs via surgery while they are under the influence of drugs or once the person is dead when the organs can be illicitly removed and She also wrote a book and made a film documentary, titled Escadrons de la mort, l'école française ("The Death Squads, the French School"), which investigated ties between the French secret services and Argentine and Chilean counter-parts. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality A death squad is an armed Squad that kills civilians terrorists or guerillas List of Intelligence agencies of France:;DGSE General Directorate for External Security - Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( English: National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean Secret police in the government In this documentary, she showed that "counter-insurgency" tactics used during the Algerian War (1954-62), and including a massive use of torture, had been taught to Argentine security forces, who used them during the Dirty War in the 1970-80s and for Operation Condor. See also Insurgency In the context of an occupation or a Civil war, counter-insurgency (abbreviated COIN is a military term for the combat The Algerian War ( French: Guerre d'Algérie; 1954-1962 also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria 's independence from The French Armed Forces made a systematic and indiscriminate use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62 creating a public controversy which is far from This article refers to the Argentine Dirty War for the British film of the same name see Dirty War (film. For other uses of Operation Condor please see Operation Condor (disambiguation Operation Condor (Operación Cóndor Operação Condor was a campaign She received for this investigation the award of "best political documentary of the year" given by the French Senate and personally awarded by Bernard Stasi. The Senate (Sénat is the Upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a president. Bernard Stasi (born July 4, 1930 in Reims) is a French Politician. [1]

After studying journalism in Strasbourg, she went to Nicaragua and worked in South America as freelance. Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer She went more than 80 times to South America, including 30 times to Cuba. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la She made reportages on the Colombian guerrillas, and then worked for CAPA agency. See also History of South America, History of present-day nations and states The History of Colombia has been characterized by the interaction of Robert Capa ( Budapest, October 22 1913 &ndash May 25 1954) was a 20th century combat Photographer who covered five different

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Voleurs d'yeux

She made a book and a film about her investigations on organ theft, Voleurs d'yeux (Eyes Thieves) which was shown at the United Nations, who decided to start an investigation on it. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security However, a man working for the United States Information Agency (USIA), who she would later discovered related to the CIA, tried to convince NGOs to cut relationship with her. The United States Information Agency ( USIA) which existed from 1953 to 1999 was a United States agency devoted to Public diplomacy. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all She went to interview him in Washington DC, wondering why each affair denounced in the Latin American press was officially denied by the US embassy 48 hours later. This man unsuccessfully tried to convince in Paris the secretary of the Fédération des affaires des droits de l'homme that "Mrs. Robin is a KGB member. KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty "[2] The USIA accused her film of being a lie, however, after a period of hardships where she was subjected to various pressions and attacks, she retained the Albert Londres prize. Marie-Monique Robin then quit CAPA to work again as freelance, doing a reportage on Cuba for Thalassa, a French TV show, and on false allegations of pedophilia made on teachers. The term pedophilia or paedophilia has a range of definitions as found in Psychology, law enforcement and the popular vernacular

Death squads

On her 2004 book on death squads, Marie-Monique Robin showed how French military officials had taught Argentine counterparts counter-insurgency tactics, including the systemic use of torture as practiced in Algeria. A death squad is an armed Squad that kills civilians terrorists or guerillas The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre (Land Army is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest See also Insurgency In the context of an occupation or a Civil war, counter-insurgency (abbreviated COIN is a military term for the combat The French Armed Forces made a systematic and indiscriminate use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62 creating a public controversy which is far from A 1959 agreement between Paris and Buenos Aires instaured a "permanent French military mission", formed of militaries who had fought in the Algerian War (1954-62), and which was located in the offices of the chief of staff of the Argentine Army. The Algerian War ( French: Guerre d'Algérie; 1954-1962 also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria 's independence from The Argentine Army ( Ejército Argentino, EA is the land armed force branch of the Argentine military and the senior military service of the country Robin declared to L'Humanité newspaper: "French have systematized a military technique in urban environment which would be copied and pasted to Latin American dictatorships". L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the [3]

Roger Trinquier's famous book on counter-insurgency, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency, had a very strong influence in South America and elsewhere, including in the School of the Americas. Roger Trinquier (20 March 1908 - 11 January 1986 was a French Army officer and theorist of Counter-insurgency warfare See also Insurgency In the context of an occupation or a Civil war, counter-insurgency (abbreviated COIN is a military term for the combat The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ( WHISC or WHINSEC) formerly the School of the Americas ( SOA; Spanish: Trinquier was a member of the Cité catholique fundamentalist group, which gathered many former members of the OAS pro-"French Algeria" terrorist group, and opened up a subsidiary in Argentina in the end of the 1950s, where it had an important role in teaching ESMA Navy officers counter-insurgency doctrines, including the systemic use of torture and ideological support. NPOV La Cité Catholique is a Traditionalist Catholic organisation created in 1946 by Jean Ousset, private secretary of Charles Maurras The Organisation de l'armée secrète ( OAS &mdash or Organisation armée secrète, lit The Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics (in Spanish Escuela de Suboficiales de Mecánica de la Armada, previously Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada

Head of DINA Manuel Contreras told her that the DST French intelligence agency communicated to the Chilean secret police the name of the refugees who returned to Chile (Operation Retorno). Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( English: National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean Secret police in the government Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born May 4, 1929) is a Chilean military and the former head of DINA, Chile's Secret police The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance was a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic All of these Chileans have been killed. "Of course, this puts in cause the French government, and Giscard d'Estaing, then President of the Republic. Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing (born 2 February 1926 is a French centre - right politician who was President of the French I was very shocked by the duplicity of the French diplomatic position which, on one hand, received with open arms the political refugees, and, on the other hand, collaborated with the dictatorships. "[3]

General Paul Aussaresses also taught US militaries these tactics, used during the Vietnam War. Paul Aussaresses (b 7 November 1918 in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, Tarn) is a retired French Army Brigadier General, who fought The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia She showed how Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's government secretly collaborated with the Videla's junta in Argentine and with Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile, while openly receiving at the same time many political refugees who were granted the right of asylum. Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing (born 2 February 1926 is a French centre - right politician who was President of the French The National Reorganization Process (in Spanish, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, often simply El Proceso) was the name used by its leaders Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November Right of asylum (or political asylum) is an ancient Judicial notion under which a person persecuted for political opinions or religious beliefs in his Right of asylum (or political asylum) is an ancient Judicial notion under which a person persecuted for political opinions or religious beliefs in his

Citing Roger Faligot, French journalist and one of the expert on Ireland, Marie-Monique Robin also note that General Frank Kitson's Low Intensity Operations. Roger Faligot is a French journalist who started working in Ireland in 1973 before working as Freelance Investigative journalist for Britton General Sir Frank Edward Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL (born 1926 is a retired British Army officer and writer Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping, the "Bible" used by the British Army during the Troubles in Ireland quoted most of all Roger Trinquier, French theorist of counter-insurgency who legitimized the use of torture. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. Roger Trinquier (20 March 1908 - 11 January 1986 was a French Army officer and theorist of Counter-insurgency warfare

Screenings of The Battle of Algiers

Further information: The Battle of Algiers (film)

Marie-Monique Robin interviewed two Argentine navy cadets from the infamous ESMA thirty-five years later after a screening of The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film by Italian communist Gillo Pontecorvo which had been at the time censored in France. The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri is a 1966 Black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian The Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics (in Spanish Escuela de Suboficiales de Mecánica de la Armada, previously Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri is a 1966 Black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian Gillo Pontecorvo ( November 19 1919 &ndash October 12 2006) was an Italian filmmaker, best known for La battaglia di Algeri In standard conditions France does not have Censorship laws being a Liberal democracy respectful of Freedom of press. The screening was presented by Antonio Caggiano, archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1959 to 1975 who inaugurated the first course on counter-revolutionary warfare in the Higher Military College with President Arturo Frondizi (Radical Civic Union, UCR, later overthrow for being too moderate). His Eminence Antonio Caggiano ( 30 January 1889 – 23 October 1979) was an Archbishop. See also Insurgency In the context of an occupation or a Civil war, counter-insurgency (abbreviated COIN is a military term for the combat Arturo Frondizi Ercoli ( October 28, 1908 - April 18, 1995) was the President of Argentina between 1 May The Radical Civic Union (in Spanish Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a Political party in Argentina. Caggiano, the military chaplain at the time, introduced the film approvingly and added a religiously oriented commentary to it. [4] Anibal Acosta, one of the ESMA cadet interviewed Marie-Monique Robin described the session:

They showed us that film to prepare us for a kind of war very different from the regular war we had entered the Navy School for. They were preparing us for police missions against the civilian population, who became our new enemy. [4]

She also noted that Pentagon officials also visionned on August 27, 2003 Gillo Pontecorvo's film. The Pentagon is the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. [5][6]

Algerian Civil War

Further information: Algerian Civil War

In the conclusion of her book, she also cites the 2003 report by Algeria-Watch titled Algérie, la machine de mort, which stated:

"To conserve their power and their fortunes nurtured by corruption, those who have been called the généraux janviéristes (Generals of January) — Generals Larbi Belkheir, Khaled Nezzar, Mohamed Lamari, Mohamed Mediène, Smaïl Lamari, Kamal Abderrahmane and several others — did not hesitate in triggering against their people a salvage repression, using, at a unpreceded scale in the history of civil wars of the second half of the XXth century, the "secret war" technics theorized by certain French officers during the Algerian War for Independence, from 1954 to 1962: death squads, systemic torture, kidnapping and disappearances, manipulation of the violence of opponents, desinformation and "psychological action", etc". The Algerian Civil War was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups which began in 1991 Maj-Gen Larbi Belkheir (العربي بلخير is a noted Algerian retired general and political figure Major-General Khaled Nezzar ( Arabic خالد نزّار is an Algerian general and former member of the High Council of State. Lt Gen Mohamed Lamari (محمد العماري was Chief of Staff of the Algerian army during most of the Algerian Civil War. General Mohamed Mediene (الجنرال محمد مدين also known as Toufik (توفيق is head of the Algerian secret services the Intelligence and Security Maj-Gen Smain Lamari (إسماعيل العماري 1941 &ndash August 28, 2007) was the head of an Algerian intelligence service the Department A civil war is a War between a State and domestic political actors that are in control of some part of the territory claimed by the state A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from Public view either by Murder or by simple Sequestration. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people The US Department of Defense defines psychological warfare ( PSYWAR) as" The planned use of Propaganda and other Psychological actions [7][8]

Citing Lounis Aggoun and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire, Françalgérie. Crimes et mensonges d'État (2004),[9] Marie-Monique Robin refers to false flag attacks committed by Algerian death squads formed by secret agents who disguised as Islamist terrorists, including the OJAL created by the DSR security services and the OSSRA (Organisation secrète de sauvegarde de la République algérienne, Secret Organisation of Safeguard of the Algerian Republic) , which recalled "the French Main rouge", a terrorist group during the 1960s which may have been constituted by French secret services, "or the Argentine Triple A. The Organisation of Young Free Algerians ( OJAL, French Organisation des jeunes Algériens libres) claimed credit for various attacks against civilian Islamist List of Intelligence agencies of France:;DGSE General Directorate for External Security - Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure The Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ( Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, usually known as Triple A or AAA was a Far-right Death squad active in ":

After having liquidated tens of opponents, passing as anti-Islamist civils, these pseudo-organisations disappeared in mid-1994. Because at the same moment, the leaders of the DRS preferred to generalise the unfolding and action of death squads also composed of their men, but passing by as Islamist terrorists. [10]

2003 Request for the constitution of a Parliamentary Commission and official responses to the film

Green deputies Noël Mamère, Martine Billard and Yves Cochet deposed on September 10, 2003 a request for the constitution of a Parliamentary Commission on the "role of France in the support of military regimes in Latin America from 1973 to 1984" before the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Assembly, presided by Edouard Balladur. Noël Mamère (born December 25, 1948 in Libourne, Gironde, France) is a French Politician of the Martine Billard (born Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, 1952-10-07 is a French politician and Députée Martine Billard entered Yves Cochet is a French politician member of The Greens. He was minister in the government of Lionel Jospin. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Édouard Balladur (born 2 May 1929 is a French right-wing Politician. Apart of Le Monde, newspapers remained silent about this request. Le Monde (The World is a [11] However, deputy Roland Blum, in charge of the Commission, refused to hear Marie-Monique Robin, and published in December 2003 a 12 pages report qualified by Robin as the summum of bad faith. Roland Blum ( Les Pennes-Mirabeau, 12 July 1945- is a French conservative politician member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP It claimed that no agreement had been signed, despite the agreement found by Robin in the Quai d'Orsay[12][13]

When Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin traveled to Chile in February 2004, he claimed that no cooperation between France and the military regimes had occurred. For the Cuban cigar brand see Quai d'Orsay (cigar brand. The Quai d'Orsay is a Quai in the VIIe arrondissement Dominique de Villepin (born Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (dɔminik də vilpɛ̃ &mdash) on 14 November 1953 in Rabat, Morocco [14]

References

  1. ^ Algeria Watch
  2. ^ Marie-Monique Robin, grand reporter sous pressions médiatiques, L'Humanité, September 21, 2002 (French)
  3. ^ a b L’exportation de la torture, interview with Marie-Monique Robin in L'Humanité, August 30, 2003 (French)
  4. ^ a b Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church and the "dirty war", Horacio Verbitsky, 28 July 2005, extract from El Silencio transl. L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Horacio Verbitksy (born 1942 in Buenos Aires) is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. in English by Open Democracy
  5. ^ La direction des opérations spéciales du Pentagone organise une projection de « La Bataille d'Alger », Le Monde, September 9, 2003 (French)
  6. ^ The Pentagon's Lessons From Reel Life - 'Battle of Algiers' Resonates in Baghdad, The Washington Post, September 4, 2003 (English)
  7. ^ French: "Pour conserver leur pouvoir et leurs fortunes nourries par la corruption, ceux que l'on a appelés les généraux "janviéristes" - les généraux Larbi Belkheir, Khaled Nezzar, Mohamed Lamari, Mohamed Médiène, Smaïl Lamari, Kamel Abderrahmane et quelques autres - n'ont pas hésité à déchaîner contre leur peuple une répression sauvage, utilisant, à une échelle sans précédent dans l'histoire des guerres civiles de la seconde moitié du xxe siècle, les techniques de "guerre secrète" théorisées par certains officiers français au cours de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne, de 1954 à 1962 : escadrons de la mort, torture systématique, enlèvements et disparitions, manipulation de la violence des opposants, désinformation et "action psychologique", etc. Le Monde (The World is a Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. "
  8. ^ Algérie : la machine de mort, October 2003, by Salah-Eddine Sidhoum and Algeria-Watch (French)
  9. ^ Lounis Aggoun and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire, Françalgérie. Crimes et mensonges d'État, La Découverte, Paris, 2004
  10. ^ French: . À l'instar de la « Main rouge » française ou de la « Triple A » argentine, ils ont certes créé, fin 1993, l'Organisation des jeunes Algériens libres (OJAL) et l'OSSRA (Organisation secrète de sauvegarde de la République algérienne) : il s'agissait, purement et simplement, de commandos constitués d'hommes de la police politique du régime, le sinistre DRS. Après avoir liquidé des dizaines d'opposants, en se faisant passer pour des civils anti-islamistes, ces pseudo-organisations disparaîtront à la mi-1994. Car au même moment, les chefs du DRS ont préféré généraliser le déploiement et l'action d'escadrons de la mort également composés de leurs hommes, mais se faisant passer pour des terroristes islamistes.
  11. ^ MM. Giscard d'Estaing et Messmer pourraient être entendus sur l'aide aux dictatures sud-américaines, Le Monde, September 25, 2003 (French)
  12. ^ « Série B. Le Monde (The World is a Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Amérique 1952-1963. Sous-série : Argentine, n° 74. Cotes : 18. 6. 1. mars 52-août 63 ».
  13. ^ RAPPORT FAIT AU NOM DE LA COMMISSION DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES SUR LA PROPOSITION DE RÉSOLUTION (n° 1060), tendant à la création d'une commission d'enquête sur le rôle de la France dans le soutien aux régimes militaires d'Amérique latine entre 1973 et 1984, PAR M. ROLAND BLUM, French National Assembly (French)
  14. ^ Argentine : M. de Villepin défend les firmes françaises, Le Monde, February 5, 2003 (French)

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