Dear Tupac:
Good to hear from you. Here is the research we talked about. http://www.legionmagazine.com/ en/index.php/2006/03/the- invasion-of-el-salvador/
It was very disheartening to hear of the massacre of 30 thousand of our peoples in the 1932. see: http://upsidedownworld. org/main/el-salvador-archives- 74/2338-indigenous-peoples-in- el-salvador-commemorate-1932- massacre-
The
Legion Magazine article titled "The Invasion of El Salvador" confirms
Canada's participation in militarily supporting the British economic
interests which was the root cause of the reason behind the massacre.
Canada's involvement was in fact the military dynamics behind this
tragic violation of the human rights of the Indigenous Peoples of El
Salvador.
Please pass on my condolences on
behalf of myself from the Secwepemc Peoples here in Canada, to the
people who are still suffering from this human rights violation
participated by Canada. Canada did this as a settler state government
under Britain and was totally wrong. No question about it.
I
am glad they are raising this matter to Prof. James Anya, United
Nations, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. This
situation clearly draws the link between Canada and other state
government genocide toward indigenous peoples.
It
is clear that Indigenous Peoples were massacred because we were caught
in between the left wing – right wing struggle between capitalists and
communists. Indigenous Peoples are not left or right wingers, we are
Indigenous Peoples, the owners of our territory. The struggle of
Indigenous Peoples goes deeper than private or collective ownership of
property but to the very sovereignty we enjoy regarding our territories
and culture.
We cannot fall subject to the
categorizing our struggle as a fight between the left and the right.
That is purely a western government approach to justify their ongoing
theft of our territories. It does not address the fundamental issue
that the Colonial Doctrines of Discovery is a racist property concept
that gives white explores the power to claim our land right from under
our feet.
This racist property concept is as
out dated as the slave laws which used to say that white people could
own black people as property. Using the Colonial Doctrines of Discovery
as the basis for our land to vest in Colonial governments is wrong and
has always been wrong.
Atonal, Nahuat Pipil Nation |
Through the determination of those
who you are engage with we now have the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, The
Expert Mechanism on Indigenous Peoples and of course the UN Special
Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
But the struggle carries on and I wish the Indigenous Peoples of El Salvador my warmest regards and respect.
In solidarity
Arthur
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Arthur Manuel
Indigenous Network on Economics and Trade (INET)
Secwepemc Nation
Neskonlith Indian Reserve
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