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released a report in 2015 documenting the alleged rape of at least 54 girls by United States military personnel between 2003 and 2007 concentrating in and around the
Tolemaida Army Airfield and Melgar. The "underage girls were sexually abused by nearby stationed military contractors “who moreover
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filmed and sold the films as pornographic material." Due to bilateral immunity agreements the men were immune from prosecution by
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aircraft and then carried out exercises simulating the capture of an airfield. Consisting of around 75 paratroopers from the U.S. Army's
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