Thoughts also for the corridors of the 5th CIVICUS World Assembly meeting, which will be held under the motto: ACTING TOGETHER FOR A JUST WORLD in Gaborone, Botswana, March 21-25, 2004.
"Life can not just depend on lawyers!",
- and stop buying these bloodstained diamonds for your love!
"Life can not just depend on lawyers", a traditional group of Gana commented during a recent visit of journalists in Botswana the continuous circling of governmental and non-governmental activities sourrounding the plight and struggle of the First People of the Kalahari and southern Africa, the San.
"It is as if suddenly you find in the morning four people sitting uninvited in your car, and they "kindly want to take you for a ride on the backseat", one observer thought aloud "and the next day you are kicked out and have to place your hope on a court run by your abductors. There is no hope to reconstitute your possession - it's never going to happen that way!"
"If the world at large would have been serious with protecting our rights, they would have dragged the ruling and governing elites of South-Africa, Botswana and Namibia since long in front of an international tribunal or the International Court of Justice and prosecuted them for crimes against humanity and for actual genocide", was another voice.
And nobody can blame these people, if they ask: "Shall we be forced to finally choose a strategy to set up a rebel army, fight for our freedom and invite military support from those to whom we then will have to dish out the riches of the Kalahari, the diamonds and all, like it has been done with the "liberation" of former Zaire - todays Congo?"
The only point which actually stands against the realization of such scenario is the very culture the modern world tries to destroy: The San are peaceful and peaceloving people ! But does this give the aggressor the right to even push them harder towards extinction ?
ECOTERRA International
Background
BOTSWANA: Culture under threat - Special Report on the San bushmen (I)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39864&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=BOTSWANA
BOTSWANA: Culture under threat - Special Report on the San Bushmen (II)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39960&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=BOTSWANA
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
http://www.irinnews.org/Homepage.asp
Have a look at the COLONISERS MANUAL
http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/colonialis.go-on.htm
For more details see:
Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa
http://www.san.org.za/wimsa/home.htm
If you need to get the "official" view - see: Government of Botswana
http://www.gov.bw/basarwa/background.html
But, please, help and do something, since it is still not to late to reconstitute the rights of the Gana and Gwi and other Koisan speaking people.
http://www.survival-international.org/bushman_appeal.htm
The question is are we going to let the Kalahari People Die?
SAVE THE SAN http://www.savethesan.com/
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Ogiek attacked at Mt. Elgon, Kenya
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"Life can not just depend on lawyers!",
- and stop buying these bloodstained diamonds for your love!
"Life can not just depend on lawyers", a traditional group of Gana commented during a recent visit of journalists in Botswana the continuous circling of governmental and non-governmental activities sourrounding the plight and struggle of the First People of the Kalahari and southern Africa, the San.
"It is as if suddenly you find in the morning four people sitting uninvited in your car, and they "kindly want to take you for a ride on the backseat", one observer thought aloud "and the next day you are kicked out and have to place your hope on a court run by your abductors. There is no hope to reconstitute your possession - it's never going to happen that way!"
"If the world at large would have been serious with protecting our rights, they would have dragged the ruling and governing elites of South-Africa, Botswana and Namibia since long in front of an international tribunal or the International Court of Justice and prosecuted them for crimes against humanity and for actual genocide", was another voice.
And nobody can blame these people, if they ask: "Shall we be forced to finally choose a strategy to set up a rebel army, fight for our freedom and invite military support from those to whom we then will have to dish out the riches of the Kalahari, the diamonds and all, like it has been done with the "liberation" of former Zaire - todays Congo?"
The only point which actually stands against the realization of such scenario is the very culture the modern world tries to destroy: The San are peaceful and peaceloving people ! But does this give the aggressor the right to even push them harder towards extinction ?
ECOTERRA International
Background
BOTSWANA: Culture under threat - Special Report on the San bushmen (I)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39864&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=BOTSWANA
BOTSWANA: Culture under threat - Special Report on the San Bushmen (II)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39960&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=BOTSWANA
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
http://www.irinnews.org/Homepage.asp
Have a look at the COLONISERS MANUAL
http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/colonialis.go-on.htm
For more details see:
Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa
http://www.san.org.za/wimsa/home.htm
If you need to get the "official" view - see: Government of Botswana
http://www.gov.bw/basarwa/background.html
But, please, help and do something, since it is still not to late to reconstitute the rights of the Gana and Gwi and other Koisan speaking people.
http://www.survival-international.org/bushman_appeal.htm
The question is are we going to let the Kalahari People Die?
SAVE THE SAN http://www.savethesan.com/
Please also visit:
Survival International
6 Charterhouse Buildings
London EC1M 7ET
UK
General enquiries: info@survival-international.org
http://www.survival-international.org
ECOTERRA Intl.
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FREEDOM & FUTURE for PEOPLE & NATURE
24 h EMERGENCY RESPONSE: +254-733-633-000
http://www.ecoterra.org.uk
http://www.ecoterra.net
http://www.ecoterra.de
http://www.ecoterra.info
Marine Group: http://www.ecop.info
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Please also see:
Ogiek attacked at Mt. Elgon, Kenya
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1501&blz=1