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స్లిప్పుల లెక్కింపుపై ఈసీ వివరణ కోరిన సుప్రీం
వీవీ ప్యాట్ రశీదుల లెక్కింపుపై ఎన్నికల సంఘాన్ని వివరణ కోరింది సుప్రీంకోర్టు. ఈ అంశంపై ఈ నెల 28 లోగా వివరణ ఇవ్వాలని ఆదేశించింది.
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Published : Mar 25, 2019, 4:18 PM IST
| Updated : Mar 25, 2019, 5:51 PM IST
వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదుల నమూనా లెక్కింపును పెంచాలన్న అంశంపై ఈ నెల 28లోగా అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేయాలని ఎన్నికల సంఘాన్ని ఆదేశించింది సుప్రీంకోర్టు. ప్రస్తుతం ఒక్కో అసెంబ్లీ నియోజకవర్గంలోని ఒక్కో పోలింగ్ బూత్కు చెందిన వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదులను మాత్రమే లెక్కిస్తున్నారు.
ఓటర్లను సంతృప్తిపరిచేందుకు దేశవ్యాప్తంగా వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదుల లెక్కింపు సంఖ్యను పెంచే దిశగా ప్రయత్నించాలని ఈసీకి సూచించింది.
వీవీప్యాట్ల పనితీరుపై ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్యమంత్రి నారా చంద్రబాబునాయుడు నేతృత్వంలో విపక్షాలు కోర్టును ఆశ్రయించాయి. ప్రతి అసెంబ్లీ నియోజకవర్గంలో 50 శాతం వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదులను లెక్కించాలని కోరాయి. ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి రంజన్ గొగొయ్ నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం ఈ కేసును ఏప్రిల్ 1కి వాయిదా వేసింది.
వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదుల నమూనా లెక్కింపును పెంచాలన్న అంశంపై ఈ నెల 28లోగా అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేయాలని ఎన్నికల సంఘాన్ని ఆదేశించింది సుప్రీంకోర్టు. ప్రస్తుతం ఒక్కో అసెంబ్లీ నియోజకవర్గంలోని ఒక్కో పోలింగ్ బూత్కు చెందిన వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదులను మాత్రమే లెక్కిస్తున్నారు.
ఓటర్లను సంతృప్తిపరిచేందుకు దేశవ్యాప్తంగా వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదుల లెక్కింపు సంఖ్యను పెంచే దిశగా ప్రయత్నించాలని ఈసీకి సూచించింది.
వీవీప్యాట్ల పనితీరుపై ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్యమంత్రి నారా చంద్రబాబునాయుడు నేతృత్వంలో విపక్షాలు కోర్టును ఆశ్రయించాయి. ప్రతి అసెంబ్లీ నియోజకవర్గంలో 50 శాతం వీవీప్యాట్ రశీదులను లెక్కించాలని కోరాయి. ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి రంజన్ గొగొయ్ నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం ఈ కేసును ఏప్రిల్ 1కి వాయిదా వేసింది.
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SHOTLIST:
++GRAPHIC WARNING: CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE SHOTS 12 AND 13 CONTAIN IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES OF THE JOURNALISTS++
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Centerville, Virginia - 12 February 2019
1. Associated Press correspondent Luis Alonso Lugo walking towards the home of Salvadoran army Colonel Mario Reyes Mena, identified by a United Nations commission as the planner of the ambush that killed the 4 Dutch journalists and 3 rebels in 1982
2. Alonson Lugo walking up stairs and ringing doorbell
3. Windows of Reyes Mena's home
4. Man believed to be Reyes Mena opening door and slamming it after seeing camera crew
5. Windows of Reyes Mena's home
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Alonso Lugo, Associated Press correspondent:
"There is renewed interest in this old case, so the Amnesty Law in El Salvador was revoked back in 2016, so this is a case that can be brought to a trial."
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Utrecht, the Netherlands - 25 January 2019
7. Various of Gert Kuiper, brother of Jan Kuiper, one of the journalists killed in the ambush, picking a book and reading it
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gert Kuiper, brother of Jan Kuiper, one of the journalists killed in the ambush:
"First I think it's somehow a moral obligation towards my brother to do this. I feel I should try my best to find the truth about his assassination and of the other three (journalists) and the five Salvadorans who accompanied them. So that's the main reason to do this. And secondly, I think it's the last opportunity to do something, because it's now 37 years ago."
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ARCHIVE: San Salvador - 11 March 1982
9. STILL of the four Dutch journalists, from left: Jan Cornelius Kuiper, director; Jacobus Andries Koster, producer; Johannes Willemsen, cameraman, and Hans ter Laan, soundman
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ARCHIVE: Chalatenango province - 18 March 1982
10. STILL of camera crews filming clothes believed to belong to the journalists
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ARCHIVE: Chalatenango province - 18 March 1982
11. STILL of man looking at clothes believed to belong to the four Dutch journalists
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ARCHIVE: San Salvador - 19 March 1982
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12. STILL of two of the four Dutch journalists killed in the northern province of Chalatenango in El Salvador lie in a San Salvador morgue
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ARCHIVE: San Salvador - 19 March 1982
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13. STILL of two of the four Dutch journalists killed in the northern province of Chalatenango in El Salvador lie in a San Salvador morgue
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - 17 January 2019
14. Various of Todd Greentree, formerly of the US Embassy political office in El Salvador, sorting through mementos from his time in the country ++MUTE++
15. Close of State Department document with subject line: "Death of Four Journalists"
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Todd Greentree, formerly of the US Embassy political office in El Salvador:
"So when we're talking about war crimes as defined in the Geneva Convention, any killing of unarmed civilians, any killing of civilians is, prima facie, a war crime. But in the case of the Dutch journalists, as in other cases you enter into a grey zone when you're questioning the motives and actions of the, in this case the four Dutch journalists. Were they - in what was known to be, their mission, of filming a second propaganda product in favour of the guerrillas, and in collaborating directly with members of guerrillas, it's not a state armed force but an irregular force - are they actually participating in acts of war."
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Centerville, Virginia - 1 September 2018
17. STILL frame from video provided by Zembla showing former Salvadoran army Colonel Mario Reyes Mena in Virginia reading a UN report
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New York - 11 February 2019
18. Various of Natalie Southwick, South and Central Americas Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists typing on her computer
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Natalie Southwick, South and Central Americas Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists:
"It's important to note that this case is a really clear example, you know there have been investigations, there's a UN Commission on it, of state security forces involved in the murder of journalists, and there is evidence that they were directly linked to this case, that it was an ambush and the journalists were targeted absolutely because of the work they were doing. This wasn't a case of being caught in the crossfire, which is often what we see in conflict. Rather, they were targeted specifically because of their reporting and because they were there."
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San Salvador - 12 December 2018
20. Oscar Antonio Perez, President of "Fundacion Comunicandonos," a rights group in El Salvador, looking at pictures of the four journalists
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oscar Antonio Perez, President of Fundacion Comunicandonos:
"It is clear and the same report of the Truth Commission found that there was a plan to ambush and kill the four journalists. It has to be said that this is one of the only cases in the world where a group of journalists are killed who were on a journalistic mission. In other countries they assassinate one on the team, here they targeted and assassinated the entire team for seeking the truth."
22. Close of pictures of the four Dutch journalists
STORYLINE:
It was 1982, the height of the civil war in El Salvador.
Four Dutch TV journalists linked up with leftist rebels near the town of El Paraiso, which had an army base on its outskirts.
Planning to spend several days behind rebel lines, the newsmen hoisted rucksacks onto their backs and walked single-file down a trail.
They had only minutes to live.
Lying in wait, Salvadoran soldiers armed with assault rifles and machine guns were ready to spring an ambush.
In 1993, a report by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador set up as part of a UN-brokered peace agreement in 1992, concluded the ambush was set up to kill the journalists, and was ordered by Colonel Mario Reyes Mena, a brigade commander.
Calls are now mounting in the Netherlands for Reyes Mena and others to be brought to justice after a documentary shown on Dutch TV cast a spotlight on the never-prosecuted slayings.
The investigative piece, "In Cold Blood," revealed that Reyes Mena has been living in relative obscurity in the United States.
Reyes Mena, now 79, lives in a Washington suburb.
A legal resident of the United States since at least 1987, he is no longer shielded by a 1993 amnesty law, declared unconstitutional by the Salvadoran Supreme Court in 2016.
Associated Press journalists went to the town house where Reyes Mena lives in Centreville, Virginia, last month after telephone calls seeking comment about the allegations were not returned.
An elderly man opened the door then slammed it shut without a word.
Even before the Dutch documentary aired in September, the attorney general's office in El Salvador had begun investigating possible criminal charges against Reyes Mena and Francisco Antonio Moran, the former head of the Salvadoran secret police who was also named in the UN report.
The prosecutors were acting on a criminal complaint filed in March 2018 by lawyers for Gert Kuiper, a brother of one of the slain journalists.
"I feel I should try my best to find the truth about his assassination," said Kuiper, whose older brother, Jan, was killed two days before his 40th birthday.
"I think it's the last opportunity to do something," he said.
The developments come amid a growing push for justice for victims of El Salvador's civil war, during which an estimated 75-thousand civilians were killed, mostly by US-backed government security forces.
Days before their deaths, journalists Jan Kuiper, Koos Koster, Hans ter Laag and Joop Willemsen had come under the scrutiny of El Salvador's secret police after Koster's contact information was found on a guerrilla.
Before dawn on March 11, 1982, the four were roused in their San Salvador hotel and taken to secret police headquarters for interrogation by Moran.
Undeterred, the quartet linked up with rebels near El Paraiso on March 17 and headed down a path.
The truth commission report, citing testimony from the sole survivor, a rebel identified only as Martin, described what happened next.
Soon after the ambush, Todd Greentree, a political officer at the US Embassy at the time, dismissed as fiction the official Salvadoran account that the newsmen died in crossfire.
Still, Greentree says seeking justice is problematic as the journalists, who were on their way to film a second piece about a rebel group, could be interpreted as, "actually participating in acts of war."
But Natalie Southwick of the Committee to Protect Journalists said it is important to bring those responsible to justice because it sends a message to those considering killing journalists that they won't get away with it.
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