De Colombiaanse verzetsbeweging FARC
heeft een paar jaar geleden een vredesverdrag gesloten met de
Colombiaanse regering en sinds die tijd is het geweld flink toegenomen tegen de
arme bevolking en tegen de ngo’s die zich inzetten voor deze
vooral oorspronkelijke bevolking, hetzij op het gebied van
mensenrechten bescherming dan wel milieubescherming…… (deze 2 zaken zijn verbonden, zoals je begrijpt)
Eric
Draitser is de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel dat
gisteren werd gepubliceerd op CounterPunch. Hij meldt o.a. de moord
afgelopen week op Edwin Dagua Ipia, de gouverneur van de
oorspronkelijke bevolking in de provincie (‘departement’) Cauca ten zuiden van
de belangrijke stad Cali dat in de aangrenzende provincie Valle del Cauca ligt……..
De kaart van de Colombiaanse provincie Cauca met hoofdstad Popayán
Het
afgelopen jaar werden in Colombia zelfs meer dan 100 moorden gepleegd op
mensenrechtenadvocaten en op leden van de gemarginaliseerde en
onderdrukte bevolkingsgroepen, zo meldt het Washington Office on
Latin America (WOLA)…….
Het
aantal moorden is toegenomen sinds Ivan Duque (Márquez) werd gekozen tot president, een fascist en vriend van de voormalige rechtse corrupte president
en opperploert Álvaro Uribe…….
Er is nu
zelfs sprake van misdaden tegen de menselijkheid, aldus WOLA…… Duque laat deze doodseskaders gewoon hun gang gaan, niet zelden worden deze eskaders dan ook bevolkt door militairen en politiepersoneel……
Het is
al een schande van formaat dat de NAVO een land als Colombia toelaat tot het bondgenootschap, dezelfde NAVO waarvan Nederland één van
de leden is, de NAVO een terreurorganisatie die nu al minstens 2 militaire bases heeft in Colombia…..
De aansluiting van Colombia bij de NAVO werd onder Uribe voor elkaar
gebokst, ten overvloede het teken dat de NAVO schijt heeft aan
mensenrechtenschendingen, terwijl deze terreurorganisatie daar wel
mee schermt als het bijvoorbeeld om Rusland of Iran gaat……
De NAVO heeft overigens nooit moeite gehad met dictaturen, zie de voormalige dictaturen Spanje, Griekenland en Turkije (de laatste is intussen weer een dictatuur), alle 3 dictaturen die lid waren van de NAVO, terwijl de NAVO top, als de VS (haar feitelijke baas), de vuilbek niet kon en kan houden over het ‘bevorderen van democratie in de wereld….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
De hoogste tijd
voor de FARC de wapens weer op te nemen, zeker gezien het feit dat de
rechtse doodseskaders gewoon doorgaan met hun moorden, verkrachtingen en martelingen van socialisten,
mensenrechtenactivisten, milieuactivisten en advocaten die zich
inzetten voor het arme deel van de Colombiaanse volk, waaronder zich zoals gezegd ook de oorspronkelijke bevolking bevindt…….. Doodseskaders die de
deze bevolkingsgroepen ronduit terroriseren…..
Draitser
richt zich in zijn artikel ook op de fascistische president Bolsonaro
en wat zijn wanbeleid betekent voor het arme deel van de Braziliaanse
bevolking…….. Zo is het hek nu helemaal van de dam wat betreft de
oorspronkelijke volkeren in het Amazone gebied, hun gronden worden met
veel geweld overgenomen, zonder dat de verantwoordelijke psychopaten
bang hoeven te zijn voor het ingrijpen van de overheid…..
Bolsonaro
liet al weten dat wat hem betreft het Amazonewoud mag worden
gebulldozerd……. Je begrijpt dat e.e.a. gepaard zal gaan met een groot
aantal moorden, zoals dat nu eigenlijk al praktijk is….. Het werkelijke aantal doden zal wel nooit bekend
worden, daar de gebieden waar het over gaat zo uitgestrekt zijn en
er amper telefoonverkeer mogelijk is anders dan met
satelliettelefoons….
Beste bezoeker, lees het volgende artikel van Eric Daitser en geeft het ajb door:
DECEMBER
20, 2018
Killing
Fields of Colombia and Brazil
In
Colombia, the last week has been a particularly bloody one for
indigenous leaders. In the state of Cauca, just south of the major
city of Calí, the indigenous governor Edwin Dagua Ipia
was assassinated after
having received numerous death threats from paramilitaries in the
area. He is one of at least ten indigenous people murdered in the
country just in the last week.
In
fact, according to the Washington Office on Latin America
(WOLA), more
than 100 assassinations of
human rights advocates and members of marginalized and oppressed
communities have taken place just in 2018. There is a sense among
observers that the killings have escalated since the election of Ivan
Duque, the young right wing president and close ally of former
president and international criminal Alvaro Uribe.
In
a damning report published
by the Consultancy on Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), the
human rights NGO noted that 35% of the social leaders and activists
murdered belonged to ethnic minorities (19% Afro-Colombian, 15%
indigenous), a staggering figure which demonstrates just how targeted
those groups are, considering the proportion of violence with which
they’re targeted versus their total share of the national
population. Moreover, CODHES indicated that:
“Approximately
50 percent of the victims were authorities or representatives of
ethnic territories and organizations. Another 36 percent were
community or union leaders, 8 percent land rights claimants and 6
percent are members of the family of women social leaders. The worst
affected regions in order of total numbers were Cauca, Valle del
Cauca, Antioquia, Chocó, and Córdoba.”
The
continued killings have drawn the attention of the United Nations,
though little has been done to stem the tide, particularly as the
government of Ivan Duque has slithered into power. Luis Guillermo
Pérez Casas, a lawyer with the Colectivo
de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR),
explained in a report jointly submitted with the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights, that the killings, and total
impunity due to government inaction, rise to the level of crimes
against humanity.
He told
the Guardian that:
“The
murders of our colleagues must stop…We hope the Office of the
Prosecutor of the ICC will warn the Colombian government that if the
impunity persists, they will be forced to open an investigation into
those responsible, at the highest level… The peace process is
failing because there’s a lack of implementation of the agreement.
The process that was agreed upon has not been delivered.”
International
human rights organizations have also raised the alarm about the
violence and assassinations in Colombia. In early 2018, after the
killing of 10 human rights activists, Amnesty
International issued a report which
called on the Colombian government to protect at-risk activists,
especially those in remote parts of the country, who face
extraordinary risks from paramilitaries and contract killers.
Similarly, Human
Rights Watch called on the Colombian governmentto
do more to protect activists after a very bloody 2016. Sadly, the
situation has only gotten worse.
Brazil’s
War on Activists
The
election of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, the man who as candidate
promised to open up the Amazon to mining and other environmentally
harmful, extractive industries, has sent a very dangerous signal to
indigenous and peasant groups in Brazil that the impunity that has
long existed will only expand further while their rights are
curtailed.
Bolsonaro
represents a unique threat to activists from all spheres, especially
indigenous and peasant communities who stand in the way of the right
wing goal of stripping land rights from those groups in the interests
of corporate investors and international financiers. And unlike the
somewhat more muted (though no less destructive) rhetoric from the
traditional neoliberal right, Bolsonaro and his far right, fascist
politics will likely escalate the war on oppressed groups from
simmering to white hot.
Speaking
of the potential impact of Bolsonaro on the already ghastly violence
against activists, Brazil-based independent journalist Michael Fox
explained to me that:
“It’s
still very early to tell the effect his election has had. Violence
spiked in the lead-up to the second round vote, but there has been a
lull since the election while people regroup The recent killing of
[two] Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) leaders was very likely a
sign of things to come.”
Fox’s
analysis, which is no doubt accurate, reflects the general sense of
anxiety about the future, especially in the wake of the most recent
assassinations which he referenced.
On
the night of December 8, 2018 two leaders of the Landless Workers’
Movement (MST) were assassinated in
the state of Paraiba in the Northeast of the country. Their deaths,
in an area regarded as a traditional stronghold of the left, have
left many asking just what the future holds for activists in Brazil.
The
assassinations are certainly not the first high-profile killings of
social movement activists in Brazil in recent years, though they have
received some added attention given that they come on the heels of
the Bolsonaro victory – a worrying signal for some that the
horrendous violence is only going to escalate.
To
put it in perspective, the Brazilian religious advocacy group
Comissão Pastoral da Terra – CPT (Pastoral Land Commission)
released a thorough report which found that:
The
brutal reality of Brazil’s rural areas has become increasingly
harsher since 2013, back when 34 murders were recorded. In four
years, these figures have increased by 105%, reaching 70
executions in 2017 – a 15% increase over 2016.
It
should be noted that, of course, this shocking rise in volence cannot
be attributed to Bolsonaro himself, but rather to deeper structural
and economic factors, in particular corproate privatization. As CPT
coordinator Ruben Siqueira explained to
Brasil de Fato:
We
see this as a new land rush, in which land is a means of production,
a store of value, like wood, water, ore, agribusiness, expansion of
land-based businesses. This has to do with the financial crisis that
started in 2008 with the speculative bubble. Since then, the
hegemonic capitalist sector, which is financial capital, is looking
for backing, something that can support this international
speculative game
Indeed,
it seems the escalation of violence against indigenous and peasant
activists is directly connected to the growing need for consolidation
of land and natural resources resulting from the econmoic downturn of
the last ten years. However, it is perhaps even more precise to
pinpoint the drop in commodity prices, most conspicuously the
collapse of oil prices in 2014-2015, as one of the primary drivers of
this renewed push for capital accumulation.
And
though this process was jumpstarted during the tenure of Dilma
Rousseff and the Workers’ Party (PT), it has picked up momentum
under the right wing Temer government. And it’s about to go into
overdrivwe with Bolsonaro taking power. For it is Bolsonaro himself
who has promised
to open up as much protected land as possible to
big business.
Indeed,
within days of Bolsonaro’s victory, reports began to circulate that
indigenous lands were being invaded and/or seized, with all the
attendant violence one would expect. As Beto Marubo, a native leader
from the Javari Valley Indigenous Land in Brazil’s far
west, explainedto
National Geographic, “Many brothers tell us there are invasions,
people entering the territories with no regard for the rules and no
fear of the authorities.” This final point is critical because
while impunity has long been the norm in Brazil, the utter disregard
for any semblance of governmental or law enforcement oversight will
likely increase underr Bolsoanro who has all but given his blessing
to displacement and violence against these groups.
Ultimately,
the struggle is about land rights, especially for the indigenous
peoples who have fought for official demarcation of lands for
decades.
Dinamã
Tuxá, Coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenous Peoples
(APIB) summed
it up neatly:
This
scenario is totally heartbreaking. Bolsonaro has made clear and
consistent declarations about ending the titling of indigenous lands,
which are completely opposed to our rights. His racist, homophobic,
misogynist, fascist discourse shows how Brazilian politics will be in
the coming years… His discourse gives those who live around
indigenous lands the right to practice violence without any sort of
accountability. Those who invade indigenous lands and kill our people
will be esteemed. He represents an institutionalization of genocide
in Brazil.
Of
course it must be remembered that Afro-Brazilian communities will be
targeted as well. Marielle Franco’s assassination in March 2018 was
in many ways a watershed moment for the social movements in the
country. However, rather than driving positive political change on
the national level, Brazil has instead elected a fascist leader who
praises the extrajudicial methods historically employed by the
dictatorship and its enablers in the country. It remains to be
seen how the left can regroup, respond, and reestablish its political
power.
One
thing is certain in both Brazil and Colombia: the far right is in
power, and that means the war on social movements and activists is
only just getting started.
And
while it may seem bleak as we read about seemingly daily atrocities
visited upon the indigenous and poor of these (and other Latin
American) countries, we cannot simply despair. Instead, we must
organize and mobilize. For those of us in the Global North, that
means doing what we can to be in solidarity with these activists,
helping to build power internationally.
Duque,
Bolsonaro, and the far right of Latin America may have ascended to
power, but they are not omnipotent.
Now
is the time for organizing; the time for struggle; the time for
resistance.
More
articles by: ERIC
DRAITSER
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Zie ook:
‘Bolivia: staatsgreep maakt eind aan succesvol presidentschap Evo Morales‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Bolivia, waar de VS in feite een coup heeft georganiseerd….)
‘Amazonegebied in brand, Black Rock verdient daar vele miljoenen mee‘
‘Braziliaanse natuurbeschermer vermoord door illegale houthakkers‘
‘Berta Cáceres voorvechter gelijke rechten en milieuactivist vermoord in Honduras‘
‘Hondurese activiste ontvoerd en vermoord (alweer…), met instemming van de VS………‘
‘Hillary Clinton mede verantwoordelijk voor moord op Berta Cáceres………..‘
‘Door VS gesteunde bewind in Honduras heeft de staat van beleg afgekondigd……..‘
‘9 ‘ex-FARC rebellen’ vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht‘
‘Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt……. AUW!!!‘
‘Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken……‘
‘People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with ‘your’ fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro……‘
‘VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………‘
‘NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………‘
‘NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit agressieve, terroristische bondgenootschap, NU!!!‘
‘Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert……‘
‘Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land ‘rijker…’‘
‘Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa‘
‘Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af……‘
Wat betreft VS terreur in Bolivia:
‘NOS met fake news over Bolivia‘
‘Bolivianen eisen hun president terug‘
‘Bolivia: staatsgreep maakt eind aan succesvol presidentschap Evo Morales‘
‘Bolivia: bewijs op tafel dat VS aanstuurt op een coup”
Bolivia’s Evo Morales ‘unhurt’ after helicopter emergency landing
Bolivia Closes 2018 Among The Highest Economic Growth Rates
Bolivia’s Remarkable Socialist Success Story: President Evo Morales has transformed his country’s economy with an unapologetically left-wing agenda.