Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 15, 2007

The red dot is for death on Tohono O'odham land



(Photo 1) Boeing is the contractor building the Apartheid Wall on Tohono O'odham land along the Arizona/Mexico border. In the photo are members of the National Guard and a US Border Patrol agent. (Photo 2) Humane Borders map: The red dots mark the spot of a migrant death, the majority dying of dehydration and heat and for want of a drink of water. The highest concentration of deaths is within a few miles of the Tohono O'odham Nation capitol of Sells, Arizona. The Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas urged a halt to the Apartheid Wall which is pressing Indigenous Peoples into more remote areas of the desert to die. The summit urged a halt to the arrest of Mayans and other Indigenous Peoples, including women and children, walking to a better life. (Please double click on photos to enlarge.) Photo credit: Indigenous Border Summit photographers pool
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