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01
Apr

No justice for genocide and state terrorism of recent past

GUATEMALA: no justice for genocide and state terrorism of recent past from www.rightsaction.org, April 1, 2007

Below, a Prensa Libre article about the genocide and state terrorism of the past.

No justice has been done for the genocide and terrorism of the past, that left over 250,000 (mainly impoverished and Mayan) people dead; that forcibly displaced 1,000,000.

BUSINESS AS USUAL: The “international community” (notably: governments of USA and Canada, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, global resource extraction companies, …, that all had extensive relations with the genocidal regimes of the past) have extensive on-going economic and military-security dealings with the undemocratic government of Guatemala that is doing nothing to ensure that the rule of law prevails and that justice be done for the crimes of the past.

GUATEMALA: “PLAN SOFIA” COMES TO LIGHT
By Lorena Seijo, Prensa Libre, March 18, 2007
(translation by P. Harris and E. Lawless)

Secret military document, in possession …

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April 1, 2007
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31
Mar

Zimbabwe: Catholic Bishops Warn of Mass Uprising

The bishops of Zimbabwe’s Catholic Church have (apparently unexpectedly) written a letter taking a position on the side of the people and against the current leadership of Zimbabwe.

Among other points, the article states “If our young people see their leaders habitually engaging in acts and words which are hateful, disrespectful, racist, corrupt, lawless, unjust, greedy, dishonest and violent in order to cling to the privileges of power and wealth, it is highly likely that many of them will behave in exactly the same manner. The consequences of such overtly corrupt leadership as we are witnessing in Zimbabwe today will be with us for many years, perhaps decades, to come. Evil habits and attitudes take much longer to rehabilitate than to acquire. Being elected to a position of leadership should not be misconstrued as a licence to do as one pleases at the expense of the will and trust of the …

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March 31, 2007
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30
Mar

A Cry from the Bottom of a Daughter’s Heart

A Cry from the Bottom of a Daughter’s Heart
from Rights Action
March 19, 2007

We re-circulate this article published by Diana Gómez on the anniversary of the disappearance and eventual extrajudicial execution of her father, Jaime Gómez. (Translated for Rights Action by Rosalind Gil)

Planet Earth

I don’t understand why anyone would try to convince me to stop trying to find out what happened to you, why anyone would tell me that I am just shouting at the wind: why did they kill you? Who gave them permission to do this? Who could they be? What special powers do they have? I don’t understand. I just don’t understand. It has been a whole year with no news whatsoever.

There are days when I ask myself in desperation, why did they kill you? Why do I have to live with such intense grief? Why can’t I enjoy your company and your fatherly advice anymore? …

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March 30, 2007
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28
Mar

A Very Canadian Coup d’état in Haiti

A Very Canadian Coup d’état in Haiti
Press for Conversion! Magazine, March 2007
Published by COAT

Here is the most recent edition of Press for Conversion!, a Magazine by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. This is the most comprehensive resource I’ve been able to find that focuses on Canada’s role in Haiti, so I’ve posted it (with permission) in it’s entirety. Each Section that begins with a link is a pdf file - Ahni.

Haiti’s 2004 Coup and its Aftermath
In early 2004, a U.S.-funded, trained and armed paramilitary force of former CIA-backed death squads and soldiers from the military (that President Aristide had disbanded in 1995), attacked Haitian police stations, massacred government supporters and released human rights abusers from prisons. The U.S., Canada and France did nothing to assist Haiti’s beleaguered democracy. Instead, they actually demanded that Aristide’s elected government share power with political representatives of Haiti’s wealthy …

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March 28, 2007
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27
Mar

Australia - there goes the neighborhood

THE BIG READ: There goes the neighbourhood
by Chris Graham, www.nit.com.au
March 22, 2007

Aboriginal landowners in the Northern Territory are facing the prospect of losing the land permit system which allows them to control who accesses their private freehold land. CHRIS GRAHAM takes a look at the federal government plans to ‘determine who comes onto Aboriginal land and the circumstances under which they come’.

It’s Mal Brough’s story, and he’s sticking to it: “I am… aware of the allegation of the rape of a 12-year-old boy in Maningrida in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory…. [the boy] was raped by five juveniles and five adults from that community,” the Minister for Indigenous Affairs told federal parliament last year.

“It raised with me the concern I have as to why this had not been more widely reported, as I am sure it would have been in almost any other part of the country.”

That was …

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March 27, 2007
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24
Mar

Rwanda releases genocide prisoners

Rwanda releases genocide prisoners
From Reuters
February 20, 2007

KIGALI, RWANDA — Eight thousand prisoners accused of involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were released Monday, prompting anger from survivors who fear new ethnic killings.

Rwanda’s prisons have been overflowing with thousands of inmates, some convicted and others awaiting trial in the slayings of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates by Hutu extremists.

“The group that has been released excludes key masterminds of the genocide,” said Rwanda’s chief prosecutor, Martin Ngoga.

Since a 2003 provisional release decreed by President Paul Kagame, the tiny Central African nation has freed up to 60,000 genocide suspects, including the sick, the elderly and minors.

The Rwandan government has said the releases will ease overcrowding in the prisons and foster reconciliation.

But as with the earlier releases, genocide survivors expressed outrage. They accuse freed inmates of planning or carrying out more ethnic killings.

“They should ensure that they keep an eye on these people …

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March 24, 2007
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22
Mar

Appeal to Exonerate Betty Krawczyk

Appeal to Exonerate Betty Krawczyk: Who Are the Real Criminals? By Joan Russow, http://PEJ.org
March 20, 2007

One of the reasons given by Madam Justice Brown, for convicting Betty Krawczyk,was that she had failed to follow appropriate channels within the legal system. Perhaps the judge is unaware of the conundrum that opponents of key natural areas of contention face in going through the so-called “appropriate” channels.

INJUNCTIONS AS EQUITABLE REMEDIES
In 1991, A specialist in injunctive law once said that injunctions are equitable remedies not constrained by the strait jacket of the law. And that injunctions move with time and circumstances (a paraphrase). In 1991, when I attempted to seek an injunction to prevent logging in the Walbran, I was told that I could only be successful if I had a financial interest in the Walbran.

The Courts, however, have generally ignored the change in time and circumstances and have brazenly supported the …

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March 22, 2007
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Video activism and the Chiapas Media Project

In the following presentation, Claudia Magallanes-Blanco from the University of Western Sydney talks about the role of video activism as a world-wide tool for empowerment and the Chiapas Media Project, a collaborative effort based in Mexico that provides indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas and peasants in Guerrero with training and equipment to produce their own videos.

Since forming in 1998, CMP has distributed over 6000 videos, including: Zapata’s Garden, a film that looks at the society the Zapatista’s are building; …


I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

Known as ‘Soy defensor de la selva’ in Spanish, I am a Defender of the Rainforest is an award-winning documentary that was filmed, edited, and directed by members of the Sarayaku community in southern Ecuador.

The film shows how the …


Underreported Struggles #19, October 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories …


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