World Governments Rattled as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at United Nations

Vice Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/ Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an indigenous Mbororo woman from Chad. Screenshot by Censored News

World Governments Rush to Defend Human Rights Records as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at United Nations

Article and images by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

August 20, 2023

NEW YORK -- Governments from around the world are rushing to defend their human rights records as Indigenous Peoples describe the atrocities -- from the shackling of Aboriginal children in Australia to forced police confessions in Vietnam, and cultural genocide in China's Inner Mongolia, during the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

From Nicaragua, a Miskito land defender described the assassination of his son and said 79 Indigenous Peoples have been murdered. An Indigenous human rights activist in Brazil said he is targeted for death.

"I am marked for death," said an Indigenous delegate from Brazil. "I don't know how much life I have left." Appealing to the United Nations Forum, he said that he and his brothers, all marked for death, will continue their fight to the end. 

United Nations -- 'Water is Life' Dismantling Water Colonialism

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Wakinyan LaPointe addressing the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York 2023. Courtesy photo.

Mni Ki Wakan calls for Indigenous Water Justice, Global Collaboration, and Dismantling of Water Colonialism

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4XSehZ0plw

MKW Co-convener, Wakinyan LaPointe (a Sicangu Lakota citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe), in partnership with Indigenous Peoples Organizations, called for Indigenous water justice on a mass scale, global collaboration, and an end to water colonialism.

China Denies Cultural Genocide in Mongolia at UN Forum of Indigenous Peoples

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China Denies Cultural Genocide in Mongolia at UN Forum of Indigenous Peoples

By Brenda Norrell

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NEW YORK -- China's representative to the UN Indigenous Peoples Forum passionately denied that China is guilty of cultural genocide in Mongolia.

While denying that China is engaged in cultural genocide, China's representative redirected the focus to the genocide of Indigenous Peoples in residential schools.

"China does not have Indigenous Peoples," he said.

United Nations -- Father of Assassinated Miskito Youth: Courage in Nicaragua

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United Nations -- Father of Assassinated Miskito Youth: Courage in Nicaragua

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

April 19, 2023

NEW YORK -- The father of assassinated Miskito youth Mark Rivas described the struggle for the survival of Indigenous Peoples in Nicaragua, where 79 Indigenous People have been assassinated protecting their forests and their lands.

Carlos Rivas Thomas, Miskito, described the invasion of settlers and the crisis during his statement to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Wednesday.

Lithium Mining is Green Colonialism -- Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Appeal to UN Forum on Indigenous Issues

 

 Duck Valley Paiute-Shoshone Council Member Addie Parker/Image by Censored News

Lithium Mining is Green Colonialism -- Duck Valley Paiute-Shoshone Appeal to UN Forum on Indigenous Issues

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
April 19, 2023

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7941

NEW YORK -- Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Council Member Addie Parker appealed to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today, describing the disastrous lithium mining and hydrocarbon plume her people suffer from in northern Nevada. Parker said there has been extensive mining here for over 150 years.

The "new green gold rush" for lithium batteries has brought devastating lithium mining and "green colonialism." Currently, there are 70 lithium mining applications in Nevada alone. The so-called "green" solution actually creates an environmental nightmare, including the disposal of batteries.

Indigenous Peoples at United Nations: Voices from the Earth for a Fractured World

San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler speaking at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York today/Image by Censored News

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NEW YORK -- Indigenous Peoples from around the world spoke out on climate change, devastating development, murders of Indigenous Peoples, and the impact of false climate solutions like carbon credits, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today.

San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler said Sacred Oak Flat is a place for the ceremonies of Apache. Resolution Copper's planned copper mine would result in an enormous crater, leaving an environmental disaster.

"Oak Flat is a holy site," Chairman Rambler told the UN Forum. "It is an area filled with power." 

“Oak Flat is a holy site, an area of irreplaceable beauty akin to a church, no different than the Wailing Wall, Temple Mount, Australia’s Juukan Gorge, or Mecca’s Kaaba,” Chairman Rambler said. “Apache people have lived, prayed, and died at Oak Flat from time immemorial.”

Chairman Rambler said the United States is failing to comply with international standards and Treaties. (At this point he was cut off for time.)

 

The Sami youth delegate said 'green energy' is just more 'green colonialism' at the expense of Sami. The green transition is being used to promote industrialism. Sami's response to those who say, "Everyone has to sacrifice something," is this: 'Colonizers have already taken everything we have, there is nothing left to sacrifice.' She received a roar of applause at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.