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Two Reports from the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)

Submitted by rains on So, 05/11/2008 - 15:13
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Two Reports from the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)

on TORTURE by Indonesian Security Forces

1) UN Committee against Torture begins Review of Report of Indonesia (6 May 2008)

2) UN Committee against Torture hears Response of Indonesia (7 May 2008)

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Some extracts from the Review & from the Indonesian response (for the FULL REPORT see below) :

“During his recent visit to Indonesia, the Special Rapporteur on Torture had noted that torture is routine in Indonesian police stations.”

The tears from my heart!? for the Hadzabe

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 20:54
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Fri, 06/29/2007 - How come then, the living home land area for Innocent Hadzabe people being leased to United Arab Emirates royal family for the sake of establishing “personal safari play ground”! Calling them “backwards” now leasing their land! This is totally unfair and it violates human rights!

Where is democracy? Is it not for real that our Tanzanian Government a democratic government?! If the answer is yes, does it not follow and obey the definition postulated by Sir Abraham Lencollin; government for the people by the people!

The Vanishing Batak Tribe

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 20:01
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The end of the Batak had come and gone. Their culture was already gone. The language was all that remained. Do you doom yourself and your children to lives of abject poverty, ridden with disease and living with hunger on a daily basis just to preserve a language?

MURDER AT MILE 63 - West Papua

Submitted by Alezev on So, 04/06/2008 - 19:35
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Part One: A Trip to the Big City - The U.S. Congress blocked moves to restore military aid to Indonesian following reports of its military’s involvement in the 2002 murder of American school teachers in Timika. The blockade was released after the indictment of Antonius Wamang by the Department of Justice. In May 2006 the Bush Administration announced a new Pentagon program that will provide up to $19 million to supplement existing programs for building Indonesian military capacity. Questions remain about whether Wamang acted alone. Where did Wamang obtain bullets?

Ghosts of indonesia won't lie*

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 19:05
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East Timor's history is repeating itself as Jakarta colludes with the west to crush another resource-rich land: West Papua. The world is watching as Australia decides the fate of 43 West Papuans seeking asylum.

Does School Education Uproot Indigenous People?

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 18:56
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Prof. Dr. David Poeppel maintains that in a child the conditioning of ideas and the strategies for overcoming and perceiving problems is formed by school education through the reduction of the variety of all the connections of the synapses drawn up in childhood. That is to say that school education influences the thoughts and emotions of a child in a certain direction through curricula and an institutional evaluation.

Indigenous People as an Economic Obstacle

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 18:53
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One problem aboriginal people living in their traditional manner have, is that their life is not based on a monetary system, and so does not correspond to our conception of economy.

As hunters and gatherers, for example, they can exist independently of any economic system and state form. Since the majority of nations in the world have assumed state forms to rule their own economic interests, it is not possible for them to support, or better still: put up with, other forms of living.

We Need to be Told!

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 18:45
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'The propagandist's purpose," wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the field. At the height of the slaughter known as the First World War, the prime minister, David Lloyd George, confided to C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian: "If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know."

What has changed?

THE WORLD BANK AND FORESTS: LIES AND DECEPTION WITH WWF

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 18:18
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In October 2002, the World Bank adopted a new policy on forests. Reversing the previous policy which had prohibited the Bank from funding projects that would destroy primary moist tropical forests, the new policy, adopted with the encouragement of the WWF, was aimed at encouraging greater involvement in forestry.
The policy was roundly condemned by many of the NGOs and Indigenous Peoples' organisations that had been involved in the lengthy consultations that had preceded its agreement. The main reasons we contested the policy were that it:

Secret Genocide

Submitted by FdN on So, 04/06/2008 - 12:29
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Human rights activists and church organisations predict that, without international attention and intervention, West Papua is in danger of becoming the next East Timor. Recent reports from coastal towns and highland areas in West Papua indicate that Enrico Guterres, one of the architects involved in terror activities in East Timor in 1999, is operating in the region, distributing shipments of guns to local militia. Guterres, indicted by the Indonesian court for crimes against humanity, has remained free while he appeals his sentence and has been operating in West Papua for more than a year.