And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
forward and distribute widely
HOLOCAUST REMEMBERED
Victoria News, April 16, 1999 Page 8
BC became the second jurisdiction outside of Israel to officially
recognize Holocaust Memorial Day April 13. Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh
proclaimed the day - determined each year by the Jewish calendar in the -
in the legislature Tuesay. letters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* no mention was made of any memorial day to recognize the Indigenous
holocaust presently ongoing in British Columbia and Canada and across the
world.
"Raphael Lemkin the Polish jurist who coined the term 'genocide'..wrote:
Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate
destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killing of all
members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan
of different actions aimed at the destruction of the essential foundations
of life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups
themselves...Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national
pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national
pattern of the oppressor.' The current actions of the BC
government...unambiguously qualify as genocide." Belgian Human Rights
group KOLA letter re: Gustafsen Lake to Prime Minister Jean Chretien,
April 25, 1997
"Contrary to provisions of the Covenant on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 the legal establishment of my Canadian
country is committing genocide. Native rights lawyer Dr. Bruce Clark,
recently disbarred for being "ungovernable" by the Law Society of Upper
Canada."
"there is no escaping the fact that Canada and especially the US could not
exist in their present form if it wasn't for the harshly successful
application of some of the most expansive, methodical and enduring
operations of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen."
>From 'Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in North America and Kosovo: The
disbarring of Dr. Bruce Clark' by Dr. Tony Hall, University of Lethbridge
(available by email upon request - [EMAIL PROTECTED])
"A United Nations human - rights panel has ruled Canada's treatment of
aboriginals is in violation of international law...the committee also
recommends that the practice of extinguishing inherent aboriginal rights
be abandoned as incompatible with the right to self determination...the UN
committee said it was worried about the inadequacy of legal remedies for
violation of native rights..." Vancouver Sun April 10, 1999
"The Nisga'a Treaty [extinguishment of inherent aboriginal rights] is
indeed an historic treaty, with historic implications. That the provincial
government is threatening to invoke closure to pass it and stifle debate
is shameful." Victoria News editorial April 16, 1999
"Treaties and their certainty provisions are really about 'TAKING OUT'
(extinguishing) the Indian Nations...in some parts of the world, it is now
called 'ethnic cleansing'. Genocide may seem harsh terminology, but this
treaty once and for all, alters the reality of Indigenous nations. The
traditional leadership, along with ordinary Indigenous People, have been
usurped by neocolonial leaderships that are working with the settler
governments to bring this aberration of settlement to a final conclusion.
The thinking seems to be that if we 'consent' to such an agreement it
cannot be seen as genocidal" Saul Terry Union of BC Indian Chiefs
"THESE GOVERNMENTS ARE DESTROYING US" - Wolverine, Shuswap elder Gustafsen
Lake 1995
STOP THE HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE. OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. STOP BC "TREATIES"
Prime Minister Jean Chretien - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BC Premier Glen Clark - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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