Like Weeds in a Garden
by Pierre Loiselle
The Dominion

Not all of the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) made it into the Canadian Criminal Code. The following parts of Article Two, which define the crime of genocide, were omitted when the Convention was ratified and became law in 1952: “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and, “Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, director of the Department of Native Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, says …

I found this a couple days ago. It is a very important and revealing essay about the reality of Indigenous People, particularly Indigenous Women - have faced and continue to face in Colonial North America.

Before reading any further, I feel obligated to warn you that this essay describes historical acts of torture, murder, rape, and other cruel and abhorrent acts perpetrated against indigenous Women.

Please tread lightly when reading this.

COLONIALISM AND GENDER VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN
from http://www.incite-national.org
Colonizers have long tried to crush the spirit of the Indian peoples and blunt their will to resist colonization. One …

Congo - Apocalypse by Design
By Keith Harmon Snow, www.allthingspass.com
November 5, 2006

Josephine Aoka Bikenge is a widow who lives along the remote Lopori River, a major tributary in the Congo River Basin. Josephine and her three daughters tied their pirogues, dugout canoes carved out of massive trees, alongside my jungle raft and together we floated for three hours while I interviewed her about life and death in rural Congo. She had never spoken to a white person.

Josephine has never used a telephone—not even the hard-wired kind—or a computer. She has never been in a car, doesn’t own a bike. …

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 (IPS) - Mbya Guaraní children living in the subtropical rainforests of Argentina’s northeastern province of Misiones are dying from preventable illnesses, and extra provision by the government of money, medicine and food seems unable to halt the catastrophe.

In the last two months, 21 Mbya children have died from respiratory problems or malnutrition, and another 13 are in the hospital. These are large numbers in proportion to the size of the ethnic group — 4,083 people according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), or just over 3,000 according to private counts.

Indigenous people …

This Commonwealth Day (13 March) Survival International is calling for Commonwealth countries to put the genocide of tribal peoples behind them by signing up to international law. Only two Commonwealth countries - Fiji and Dominica - have ratified the key international law protecting tribal peoples’ rights, International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 169.

Many Commonwealth countries have tribal or indigenous peoples living within their borders - for example Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Canada, Guyana, India and New Zealand. The policies of others such as the UK have a direct impact on tribal peoples through development aid and their work at the UN. Yet …

Press Release: International Solidarity Movement- On January 19th we, a group of concerned Jews, spray painted the infamous Nazi slogan “Arbeit Macht Frie” (”Work Makes You Free”) on a sign placed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the Kalandia checkpoint that read “The Hope of Us All”.

The Sign “the hope of us all” and the New Ramallah Terminal were inaugurated on the 20th of Dec 2005. The new terminal is set up so that there is no physical contact between the soldiers and the Palestinians. The soldiers scream commands to the Palestinians over loud speakers as they are made to …

By Aimable Twahirwa - Kigali, Rwanda.

During the 12 years since the Rwandan genocide, national and community courts — and an international tribunal — have tried to bring about justice for victims of the killings and rights abuses that took place in 1994.

Among the sentences that have been handed down, however, those that relate to forms of community service are sparking anger among genocide survivors.

Almost 900 people have been sentenced to community service under an initiative started last year. The service is referred to by its French acronym TIG (from “travaux d’interet …

The following is a detailed look at history of conflict among Papuan Peoples in Indonesia, and the “Special Autonomy Legislation” that was implemented, allegedly in the best interests of Paupan Peoples.

Messages of solidarity for the people of West Papua
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wpsol.htm

You are invited to send a message of solidarity to the people of West Papua. This web page was launched on 1 December 2004, the forty-third anniversary of the West Papuan Declaration of Independence from Dutch colonial rule.

Since 1963 West Papua has been occupied by Indonesian armed forces. For the past forty-one years, the people of West Papua have been …

The following is a list of links which provide information for these two very serious matters. But before going any further, please note that some people may have a difficult time with this information, so please take it slow.

Note - this list was made in 2005, and some of the links (specifically, the ones on africa200.com) are no longer valid - but if you want to see the info contained there, you can go to archive.org’s wayback machine

Missing Women in Canada

(I can no long find them, but I had read numerous articles about the missing women in Manitoba, …