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United Nations Fails to Accommodate Lakota Genocide Complaint
derrick on April 13th, 2013 10:18 pm - No Comment Yet
UNITED NATIONS FAILS TO ACCOMMODATE LAKOTA GENOCIDE COMPLAINT
U.N. Sends Security Chief Instead of Diplomat to Meet Lakota Delegation
New York City - A delegation of Lakota Elders has been refused the
opportunity to personally deliver an official Complaint of Genocide
against the United States to United Nations Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon, his staff, or any other high ranking United Nations
officials. Instead, following a march through New York City with over
100 supporters, they were barricaded in a park outside U.N.
Headquarters in New York and met by security personnel.
“Its not surprising because we have been going there for thirty years,
and they have yet to stop the genocide, contrary to their own mission
statement to protect nations large and small,” explained Lakota
Grandmother Charmaine White Face. The Preamble of the United Nations
states:
“…reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth
of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of
nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which
justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other
sources of international law can be maintained…”
The Lakota Truth Tour Delegation had secured up-front promises by
international organizations and others to be received within the United
Nations to deliver the complaint and discuss the ongoing conditions of
life that are destroying Lakota Elders and people. But at the last
moment, these promises evaporated. A backdoor offer to meet with U.N.
officials on Thursday, was also diverted to the bureaucratic process of
the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues preventing direct nation to
nation representation by Lakota Oyate (Nation) delegates with the
United Nations.
Entitled Official Lakota Oyate Complaint of Genocide Based on the 1948
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
the eight page notice begins:
This letter serves notice as complaint, that the crime of genocide is
being committed, in an ongoing manner, against the matriarchal Tetuwan
Lakota Oyate of the Oceti Sakowin, an Indigenous First Nation people
whose ancestral lands comprise a large area of the Northern Great
Plains of Turtle Island, the continent known as North America.
The complaint further names the United States Government, U.S. state
governments, and others as the perpetrators of historic and ongoing
genocide against the Lakoya Oyate based on articles set forth in the
1948 Convention on Genocide. The full complaint is being prepared for
delivery following final review by international attorneys.
The Lakota Truth Tour is in Day 11 of an educational tour across North
America that is building broad awareness and support to end the
genocide against the Lakota. In addition to talks by Lakota delegates,
the tour also debuts the incendiary documentary “Red Cry” that
meticulously outlines the genocide of the Lakota people as described
through their stories and lives. The Lakota Delegation is working to
meet with U.S. officials next week in Washington DC.
“We are going to challenge all of the world nations to look at the
unhealthy way the United Nations responds to First Nations people, “
said Lakota delegate and warrior leader Canupa Gluha Mani. “Any other
ethnic group out there can take their case and plead it to the U.N.
because they coat the truth in sophisticated language. We are looking
for other nations that will support the Indigenous people who still
speak their language within their own country.”
For more information visit LakotaGrandmothers.org.
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derrick on April 13th, 2013 10:18 pm - No Comment Yet
UNITED NATIONS FAILS TO ACCOMMODATE LAKOTA GENOCIDE COMPLAINT
U.N. Sends Security Chief Instead of Diplomat to Meet Lakota Delegation
New York City - A delegation of Lakota Elders has been refused the
opportunity to personally deliver an official Complaint of Genocide
against the United States to United Nations Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon, his staff, or any other high ranking United Nations
officials. Instead, following a march through New York City with over
100 supporters, they were barricaded in a park outside U.N.
Headquarters in New York and met by security personnel.
“Its not surprising because we have been going there for thirty years,
and they have yet to stop the genocide, contrary to their own mission
statement to protect nations large and small,” explained Lakota
Grandmother Charmaine White Face. The Preamble of the United Nations
states:
“…reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth
of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of
nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which
justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other
sources of international law can be maintained…”
The Lakota Truth Tour Delegation had secured up-front promises by
international organizations and others to be received within the United
Nations to deliver the complaint and discuss the ongoing conditions of
life that are destroying Lakota Elders and people. But at the last
moment, these promises evaporated. A backdoor offer to meet with U.N.
officials on Thursday, was also diverted to the bureaucratic process of
the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues preventing direct nation to
nation representation by Lakota Oyate (Nation) delegates with the
United Nations.
Entitled Official Lakota Oyate Complaint of Genocide Based on the 1948
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
the eight page notice begins:
This letter serves notice as complaint, that the crime of genocide is
being committed, in an ongoing manner, against the matriarchal Tetuwan
Lakota Oyate of the Oceti Sakowin, an Indigenous First Nation people
whose ancestral lands comprise a large area of the Northern Great
Plains of Turtle Island, the continent known as North America.
The complaint further names the United States Government, U.S. state
governments, and others as the perpetrators of historic and ongoing
genocide against the Lakoya Oyate based on articles set forth in the
1948 Convention on Genocide. The full complaint is being prepared for
delivery following final review by international attorneys.
The Lakota Truth Tour is in Day 11 of an educational tour across North
America that is building broad awareness and support to end the
genocide against the Lakota. In addition to talks by Lakota delegates,
the tour also debuts the incendiary documentary “Red Cry” that
meticulously outlines the genocide of the Lakota people as described
through their stories and lives. The Lakota Delegation is working to
meet with U.S. officials next week in Washington DC.
“We are going to challenge all of the world nations to look at the
unhealthy way the United Nations responds to First Nations people, “
said Lakota delegate and warrior leader Canupa Gluha Mani. “Any other
ethnic group out there can take their case and plead it to the U.N.
because they coat the truth in sophisticated language. We are looking
for other nations that will support the Indigenous people who still
speak their language within their own country.”
For more information visit LakotaGrandmothers.org.
If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it
Tags: Aboriginal, breaking news, First Nations, Genocide, government,
health, Idle No More, Lakota, native news, rights, world news
http://westcoastnativenews.com/united-nations-fails-to-accommodate-
lakota-genocide-complaint/
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