And the reasons why some victims choose to not move forward through the military justice process. This is about three hours. Okay. Thank you for joining us this morning. Were going to be looking at the perspectives of the services military Justice Division chiefs regarding conviction and acquittal rates, case adjudication process, and victim declination. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] does the article 32 statute and its implementing rule, rule for courtmartial 405, provide an effective check for charges against which there is no probable cause . Ill start with you. So, i think for the past several years the procedural requirements have change and statutory change for the requirement for the victim to testify. And as a result, in many cases that the governments most significant evidence. In the those cases where a victim chooses to not to testify, the government is basically making its case based on the paper file. And so i will say that those changes over time have, have reduced the proce
A yes we expect the spanish authorities and the International Community especially the Spanish Government to do what they didnt do on october the 1st 2017 when such a vote was held and they did exactly the opposite was it which is put people in jail my predecessors in the Catalan Government we saw columb and Police Troops being sent to hit people in their heads and we seen almost 2 years of preventive chill for people who organize a vote can i ask you specifically about that our friend because. From what i understand neither the current cut on authorities nor the spain authorities consider it illegal or free and fair for you it wasnt free and fair because of the Police Presence for them it was illegal as far as they resolved it concerned and i think over 90 percent of people who came to the polls they supported the independence cost as far as the result the country do you consider them legitimate or it is it more like a legacy or every torkel issue for you it was an enormous wonderful
A yes we expect the spanish authorities and the International Community especially the Spanish Government to do what they didnt do on october the 1st 2017 when such a vote was held and they did exactly the opposite was it which is put people in jail my predecessors in the Catalan Government we saw columb Police Troops being sent to hit people in their heads and we seen almost 2 years of preventive chill for people who organize a vote can i ask you specifically about that our friend because. From what i understand neither the current caught on authorities nor the spain authorities consider it illegal or free and fair for you it wasnt free and fair because of the Police Presence for them it was illegal as far as they resolve the concern and i think over 90 percent of people who came to the polls they supported the independence cost as far as the results are concerned do you consider them illegitimate there or it is it more like a legacy or every torkel issue for you it was an enormous wo
Independence cost as far as the results are concerned do you consider them legitimate they werent is it more like a lag to see or every torkel issue for you it was an enormous wonderful feat bringing millions of people to the polls enabling them to vote despite police disruption and brutality and its something the people of catalonia achieved and the government which was in place then helped the people to do to vote freely for the future thats the way we think things should be done perhaps we didnt have the strength to fulfill the mandate of the people and thats why we need International Complicity and support to convince the government of spain the this is the sensible a reasonable way of doing things the democratic way because the use of force is not helping people in catalonia we believe that the majority. People but if its not a majority lets test it and lets find out the people in catalonia want to vote and thats a certainty for 80 percent according to most polls want to vote for
Millions of people to the polls enabling them to vote despite police disruption and brutality and its something the people of catalonia cheve and the government which was in place then helped the people to do to vote freely for the future now thats the way we think things should be done perhaps we didnt have the strength to fulfill the mandate of the people and thats why we need International Complicity and support to convince the government to spain that this is the sensible a reasonable way of doing things the democratic way because the use of force is not helping people in catalonia we believe that the majority of people but its not a majority lets test it and lets find out the people in catalonia want to vote and thats a certainty for 80 percent according to most polls want to vote for the future and want to vote on independent. Such an issue has to be delivered to the people and democracy is the rule of the people for the people and with the people so thats the way we think it sho