Indigenous People's Day Aug 9: Straightgoods.com
 
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:03:23 -0500 (CDT)

 
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from: http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature5.cfm?REF=358
Wave of Violence Rocks World's Tribes

Indigenous people assaulted, attacked, in battles over land.

Dateline: Sunday, August 07, 2005

by Miriam Ross

As the UN celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day on 9 August, the world's tribes 
have been rocked by a wave of violent attacks and killings.

Papua: The Indonesian army attacked the Lani village of Pyramid in the 
Papuan highlands in July. Soldiers cut the face and body of Lani man Petto 
Wenda with a razor and a knife before pouring petrol on his head and 
setting him on fire. He is not expected to survive. Two other men were shot 
and have now disappeared in the jungle, where the rest of the villagers are 
also hiding. Earlier this year, the army and police killed a tribal leader, 
a child and an elder in the village of Nggweyage. They also burned down 
houses and churches. An estimated six and a half thousand people fled their 
villages. Too afraid to leave their hiding places, at least fifty died from 
starvation and disease....

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Penney Kome, author and journalist
http://penneykome.ca
Editor, Straight Goods, http://straightgoods.com