Genocide for Land Grab: News from Survival Tribes

By Survival International

News from around the globe on resistance to the New World Order, as multinational corporations use deadly force to seize land for resource extraction.

 Colombia: Twelve Indians shot dead by armed men
27 August 2009 Twelve members of the Awa tribe were shot dead yesterday, 26 August, by a group of unidentified armed men.

Peru: Call for napalm bombing of ‘savages’ wins Survival racism award
26 August 2009 An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named by human rights organisation Survival International as the ‘most racist article’ published in the last year by the mainstream media.

Malaysia: Logging protests spread in Borneo as nomads block roads
24 August 2009 Protests by the Penan tribe in Borneo have escalated, with twelve villages coming together to mount new road blockades against the logging and plantation companies that are destroying their rainforest.

Tanzania: Maasai evicted and imprisoned to make way for safari hunting concession
20 August 2009 Eight Maasai villages in the Loliondo region of Tanzania have been burnt to the ground, leaving 3,000 people without food, water or shelter.

Botswana: Botswana official admits: ‘Bushmen were evicted for diamonds’
18 August 2009 A senior Botswana government official has admitted that the Kalahari Bushmen were evicted from their land to make way for diamond mining in a new book published this month.

Peru: Government investigates reports of illegal logging
14 August 2009 Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, INDEPA, has announced it will investigate claims that loggers have invaded a reserve created for uncontacted Indians.

Peru: Aerial photos reveal loggers inside uncontacted Indians’ territory
13 August 2009 New aerial photos have revealed illegal loggers operating inside an Amazonian reserve set aside for uncontacted and highly vulnerable Indians.

Peru: Amazon Indians struck by swine flu ‘for first time’
12 August 2009 The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts’ fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.