Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Common Dreams
UN Observers Monitoring Abuses Against Standing Rock Water Protectors
Pipeline owners warned that they are 'complicit' in police brutality against Indigenous demonstrators
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Indigenous water protectors face off with police during last week's military-style raid. (Photo: Wes Enzinna/cc/flickr)
The increasingly violent attacks by North Dakota police and private security forces against peaceful, Indigenous water protectors have caught the nation's attention as well as that of the United Nations, an arm of which has begun an investigation into the protesters' claims of human rights abuses, including "excessive force, unlawful arrests, and mistreatment in jail," the Guardian reported late Monday.
Observers have begun collecting testimonies from those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline and, on Monday, Grand Chief Edward John, a Native American member of the U.N. permanent forum on Indigenous issues, met with police officials in Mandan, North Dakota and visited the cages where some of the 141 arrested protesters were held after last week's military-style police raid.
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http://commondreams.org/news/2016/1...abuses-against-standing-rock-water-protectors
A suitable comment that I found:
"DOJ must put the project on hold while it investigates Human Rights violations. And federalize the North Dakota National Guard to protect Indigenous Rights in the same way Eisenhower turned the tables when Arkansas Gov Orval Faubus brought out the Arkansas National Guard in 1956 to prevent black students from entering Little Rock schools. Eisenhower tasked the Arkansas National Guard with escorting the students into the schools instead. We need that kind of leadership now."
BTW, what about a "military" raid on the office of the oil company to find any tax shelters being used?
Common Dreams
UN Observers Monitoring Abuses Against Standing Rock Water Protectors
Pipeline owners warned that they are 'complicit' in police brutality against Indigenous demonstrators
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Indigenous water protectors face off with police during last week's military-style raid. (Photo: Wes Enzinna/cc/flickr)
The increasingly violent attacks by North Dakota police and private security forces against peaceful, Indigenous water protectors have caught the nation's attention as well as that of the United Nations, an arm of which has begun an investigation into the protesters' claims of human rights abuses, including "excessive force, unlawful arrests, and mistreatment in jail," the Guardian reported late Monday.
Observers have begun collecting testimonies from those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline and, on Monday, Grand Chief Edward John, a Native American member of the U.N. permanent forum on Indigenous issues, met with police officials in Mandan, North Dakota and visited the cages where some of the 141 arrested protesters were held after last week's military-style police raid.
[...]
http://commondreams.org/news/2016/1...abuses-against-standing-rock-water-protectors
A suitable comment that I found:
"DOJ must put the project on hold while it investigates Human Rights violations. And federalize the North Dakota National Guard to protect Indigenous Rights in the same way Eisenhower turned the tables when Arkansas Gov Orval Faubus brought out the Arkansas National Guard in 1956 to prevent black students from entering Little Rock schools. Eisenhower tasked the Arkansas National Guard with escorting the students into the schools instead. We need that kind of leadership now."
BTW, what about a "military" raid on the office of the oil company to find any tax shelters being used?
