Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters

Rachana Sam At on behalf of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Caucus points out that Indigenous Peoples can not participate in this process unless approved by a non-governmental organization, and this must change for there to be enhanced participation. Photo AIPC.

Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous youths spoke with courage and eloquence, calling out the environmental racism and genocide carried out by governments around the world. In response, government representatives rushed to deny the human rights abuses, and in some cases, used insulting language to criticize Indigenous Peoples who exposed their abuses, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The representative of France denied the government is responsible for genocide in New Caledonia. Azerbaijan denied responsibility for genocide in Armenia and used derogatory accusations, describing speakers as frauds and part of a "smear campaign." 

The United States government failed to describe the ongoing seizure of Native ancestral lands for lithium and copper mines, and fake green energy projects targeting ceremonial places.

The Russian Federation government criticized speakers on Thursday. Responding to speakers statements, he said their status needs to be examined. He claimed some had lost touch with their communities, and some were funded by former colonial powers. He also said one organization presenting a statement was not recognized in Russia.

"We need to exclude the participation of chauvinists and racists," the Russian Federation government representative said.

Indigenous Women Sterilized by Governments Thwarted on Slow Road for Justice

Jean Whitehorse, Dine', spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2019 and described the forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service. Photo courtesy Yvonne Swan, Colville Nation, AIM West delegation.

Indigenous Women Sterilized by Governments Thwarted on Slow Road for Justice

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 1, 2024

Indigenous women were sterilized by governments throughout the Americas, lawsuits and testimony reveal from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Peru. In the United States, Jean Whitehorse, Dine', described how the Indian Health Service in Gallup, New Mexico, carried this out in secrecy. In Peru, Indigenous women were brutalized in villages during massive sterilization campaigns. In Canada and Greenland, Inuit women were targeted with both forced sterilizations and contraceptive devices as young girls.

Indigenous women tell their stories.

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, murder with impunity

United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Human Rights Council

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, Murder with Impunity

Native Hawaiians and Indigenous in Guam want the US military out; Russian youths want an end to war


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

July 17, updated July 29, 2023

GENEVA -- Native Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the Pacific shut down. An aquifer has been poisoned in Honolulu, and unexploded ordinances left behind make lands inaccessible.

Christopher Edward said the U.S. military installation in Hawaii is the largest in the world, 200,000 acres, and has resulted in the displacement of Native Hawaiians from their traditional lands. Edward testified before the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Edward joined Indigenous from around the world in reporting human rights abuses, during the session, "The Impact of Militarization on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Hillary leaves tracks in the oil

Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, meeting with Saudi Arabia.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton targeted Indigenous Peoples defending their homelands. Millions have flowed into the Clinton Foundation from oil and mining.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English
Translation into Dutch at Alice Holemans, NAIS

Update 2016: Also see 21 new revelations about Hillaey's ties to hidden uranium mi g and exploitation of Indigenous lands
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/03/21-new-clinton-cash-revelations-that-have-imperiled-hillary-clintons-campaign/

While Secretary of the State Department, Hillary Clinton orchestrated a spy network targeting Indigenous activists throughout the Americas who were defending their homelands from drilling, mining and development. Those targeted in the dragnet spanned the Americas, from the Mohawks in Canada to Mapuche in Chile. 

Further, while Indigenous Peoples were dying defending their lands from mining in Peru, the US and four other countries met as a pro-mining alliance in Peru and reported in to Hillary Clinton, as exposed in the Wikileaks cables.

Now, a Swiss banking leak reveals that the Clinton Foundation has received millions from Canadian mining magnate Frank Giusta. Further, a top donor to the Clinton Foundation is Saudi Arabia, a country leading in human rights violations which has teamed up with the United States to orchestrate a regime partnership.

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation now has $277 million in assets. The Charity Index says it can not consider it a non-profit.

Bill Clinton and Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra posed as humanitarians while Giustra bilked Indigenous Peoples globally out of their lands and resources for gold and copper mining. Then, millions flowed into the Clinton Foundation from Giustra.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/02/swiss-leak-mining-magnate-and-clinton.html

Now, the Clinton Foundations' Saudi Arabia financiers have been exposed. Saudi Arabia is the world's number one producer of oil, and has the second  largest oil deposits, with Venezuela having the largest.

Further, the Clinton Foundation received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an agency promoting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to exposure by the Wall Street Journal.

The Clinton Foundation's number one donor is The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a hedge fund of steel, coal and energy investors.

The following article describes how the five country pro-mining alliance met in Peru while Indigenous Peoples were dying defending their lands. In the cables, the US Ambasssador reported in to Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State.

Censored News wrote a series of articles about spying on Indigenous Peoples while Hillary Clinton headed the State Department, as exposed by Wikileaks in the cables. Hillary Clinton demanded DNA and iris scans of leaders of state and others targeted, in her cables to Ambassadors.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Wikileaks exposed State Department cables stating that a core group of diplomats formed an alliance with mining companies globally to promote and protect mining interests. The diplomats were from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa.

Wikileaks Peru: US Ambassador targeted Indigenous activists, promoted mining

Deadly mining in Peru, deadly for Indigenous Peoples 2015

Diplomats protecting mining interests of Barrick, Newmont, BHP: US, Canada, Australia, UK, Switzerland and South Africa

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

(Feb. 1, 2011) The arrogance of the US and its cheerleading for corporate copper mining in Peru is obvious in two cables just released from Wikileaks. The diplomatic cables reveal the US promoting multi-national corporations, while targeting Indigenous activists and their supporters.

The new cables reveal that a core group of diplomats formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally. The diplomats were from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa.

While rallying for copper mining in Peru, US Ambassador J. Curtis Struble failed to point out in the cables the torture and murder of Indigenous activists by mining companies, near the border of Peru and Ecuador. Struble failed to reveal the long-term destruction to Mother Earth and poisoning of the land, water and air from copper mining.

Further, Struble named names, while promoting the mining corporations. Struble targeted specific NGOs and urged the rotation of teachers and those supporting Indigenous activists out of Peru.

Peru activist Nicanor Alvarado Carrasco, coordinator of the Vicarate for the Environment, is among those defending the land. Nicanor said the mining company Minera Majaz, a subsidiary of the British Montericco Metals, is operating illegally on their territories.

“This mine company is a threat to the environment and to people’s rights to food and water,” said Nicanor in an interview.

"This is a moment for the world citizens to show that world citizenship exists. You from the North can help stop illegal mining companies, like Monterrico Metals, from contaminating our land, killing peasant leaders, and from torturing the active Minera Majaz opposition,” Nicanor said.

Struble, the former Ambassador to Peru, however, had only insults for Indigenous Peoples struggling to protect their land. Struble was US Ambassador in Lima in 2005 when he wrote the cables.

While seeking sympathy for the copper mining company, Struble targets those defending the land.

Struble said in one cable: “The anti-mining forces in action in Majaz represent a strange group of bedfellows indeed -- the Catholic church, violent radical leftists, NGOs, ronderos and perhaps narcotraffickers. These organizations are competing for a leadership role but in some cases also cooperate. The extent to which the church is tied into the ronderos and radical left is both controversial and still open to question. Unlike recent conflicts in Southern Peru (e.g., Tintaya) the protests in Majaz are not aimed at forcing a redistribution of royalties or more generous economic support from a mine. Northern Peru has a reputation for being more anti-mining than the South, where the industry is better developed and more of the local populations see benefits from the activity. The objective of protesters in Majaz is to kill the project while it is in the exploration phase -- before, presumably, a pro-mine constituency can develop in the area."

Ambassador Struble does not seem to have a clue why the people who live on the land want the mining halted, or the impacts for future generations.

Struble said US and Canadian Ambassadors, and a delegation of diplomats, met with the mining companies to discuss the opposition to mining.

"Consensus among the companies is that radical forces (Communist Party-Patria Roja, drug traffickers and rural defense committees--ronderos) are increasingly active in rural communities, seeking to target mining operations throughout the country."

The US and Canadian Ambassadors meeting with mining companies included: Antamina, Newmont (Minera Yanacocha), Minera Quellaveco, Barrick, BHP Billiton (Tintaya mine). The diplomats were from the US, Canada, the Swiss Charge, the new Australian Consul General, and the British Embassy Trade and Investment. "A representative from the South African Embassy, which forms part of this diplomatic mining group, was unable to attend," the cable said.

Their goal was to improve the climate for investments and security around mines, the cable said.

Three of these countries -- US, Canada and Australia -- at this meeting in Peru were among the four countries who voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples when it was adopted by the UN General Assembly. New Zealand was the fourth.

In today’s London Guardian, Tim Webb points out that the mining company in Peru is part-owned by a British FTSE 100 company. In a second cable, Struble advocates for the removal of teachers and Catholic bishops and teachers to new posts away from "conflictive mining.”

Diplomats were urged to persuade the Peruvian government and church to "rotate" such professionals out of sensitive areas.

In the second cable, an executive from Anglo American's Minera Quellaveco reportedly blamed Oxfam America and Friends of the Earth for largely “fomenting anti-mining attitudes” at the meeting, it was alleged.

A spokesman for Oxfam America said that while such NGOs tried to make sure companies treated communities "justly", they only did so through legal channels and never advocated violence, the Guardian reported.

Meanwhile, in the United States, two of the mining companies that diplomats met with to promote and protect, continue to destroy sacred lands. Western Shoshone have been fighting mining by Newmont and Barrick mining in their homelands. Currently before the US federal court is Barrick's plan for an open pit gold mine on sacred Mount Tenabo.

Peru mining cables:
Cable 1:
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2005/08/05LIMA3571.html
Cable 2: Posted and highlighted by London Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/38881
Today's Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/31/wikileaks-bhp-billiton-peru-mining-communities

Nicanor speaking in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth, in April:

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