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Violence and Repression: Indigenous from Russia, Algeria and Nicaragua Appeal to the United Nations
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 17, 2024
GENEVA -- The coal and gold mining in Russia has driven Indigenous Peoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of land defenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent colonization and genocide.
"Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in Palestine," said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.
An Indigenous woman from Khakassia Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining.
"Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes." Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life.
"The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,” she told the United Nations.
"Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are Khakas but we do not govern Khakassia."
"Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials."
"I also note the Shors are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on."
"However, companies are polluting rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."
"The issues of the Shors are not being resolved and we need mechanisms to achieve the ends of the UNDRIP," she said, referring to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"I would like to express a wish, namely to adopt documents and recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples in their key roles in solving issues related to the use of water by Indigenous Peoples."
Algeria: Surviving Colonization and Genocide
Algeria is the largest country in Africa, with 3,000 years of violent colonization, decolonization and recolonization.
"The last was the French insurgency and there was 130 years of genocide."
"Never in the history of mankind have we gone so far in destroying the human aspect. In terms of conflict, there are 150,000 relics, bones, and craniums in the current French museums from the nineteenth century,” said the representative from the Algeria Association.
Indigenous of Algeria were deported to New Caledonia to enable mixed marriages, a weapon of mass destruction in the colonization of Indigenous Peoples, he said.
"Our struggle is to identify tribes who face mass invasion for the past 3,000 years, and our second is to raise the profile."
Nicaragua: Brutal Oppression of Land Defenders
In Nicaragua, the criminalization and prosecution of Indigenous land defenders has intensified. This persecution of those fighting for the protection of their land has resulted in a breakdown of families and communities, said an advocate from the International Network in Europe.
Since 2023, there have been 585 complaints of surveillance, intimidation, house searches, and criminalization of Indigenous Peoples by state security forces.
"Since 2023, at least 75 Indigenous leaders have been murdered."
The criminalization of Miskito and Mayangna goes beyond legal processes, there are harassments, and the government is closing down organizations. There is migration because people are uprooted from their land.
She urged investigation into the persecution of Indigenous rights leaders.
"The lives of human rights defenders depend on this.”
She said those who offer testimony at the United Nations face reprisals and are compelled to leave their homes, communities and families.
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