United Nations calls for U.S. accountability

[NVMojo]

August 29, 2005

GENEVA - A United Nations committee on racial discrimination has asked the United States to respond to the Western Shoshone appeal for urgent intervention, regarding the attack on their spiritual and cultural areas by the United States and mining corporations.

Mario Yutzis, chairman of the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, issued a formal letter to the United States and questioned why Western Shoshone sacred land and treaty rights are not being honored.

The committee pressed the United States for an explanation of expanded mining and nuclear waste storage on Western Shoshone ancestral land, and for ''placing their land up for auction for privatization.''

Further, the committee questioned whether the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863 has been abrogated and the imposition of grazing fees, trespass and collection notices, horse and livestock impoundments and restrictions on hunting and fishing.

more...

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411464

this is a follow-up to this story that was posted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1714046

[IdaBriggs]

1. Kicked and nominated! nt

[fooj]

2. Good on the Western Shoshone's! It's about time people

hold those bastards accountable.

Peace.

[NVMojo]

3. The American people, us, should do the same thing over invading

Iraq, another sovereign nation ...

[fooj]

5. Agreed.

Peace.:hug:

[geckosfeet]

4. Accountability is not high on this administrations list. n/t

[NVMojo]

6. yer right, but intelligent design is, so much for "sacred lands"

[MadeinOhio]

7. Well, I can think of three reasons.....

Oil, for oil, and then for oil some more.

Wait!!!!! THAT'S ALL THE SAME REASON!!!!

But couldn't there be a better exscuse? Nah, not in the profit sector.

[Up2Late]

8. Way to go Western Shoshone!

Hold the bastards accountable!

[rodeodance]

9. love the way they went to the international scene!

[meganmonkey]

10. I am so glad the UN is acting on the Shoshone's request

I hope this goes somewhere!

[bemildred]

11. Yippee. The US needs a lot more "transparency" too.

And we need to do a lot of work on corruption in government.

[me b zola]

12. Hey Bolton! Reform begins at home

Put that in your pipe & smoke it :smoke:

[phusion]

13. What a great honor to the Dann sisters...

One of whom died this year.

They have both been fighting for Shoshone lands for decades and this is great news.

http://www.reviewjournal.com.nyud.net:8090/lvrj_home/2004/Jun-10-Thu-2004/photos/dann1.jpg

[NVMojo]

15. good observation! This is what they fought for ...

www.wsdp.org for more on this issue. And in Nevada, it's been about gold extraction from public lands. However, the BLM held hearings in our area recently to discuss oil and gas leases on public lands in the state. Most of Nevada is owned by the federal government.

[phusion]

16. They are Western Shoshone...

I'm sure they are happy with this news.

I've had to work at Nellis AFB before. It was not to far from Tonopah...Beautiful area up that way. There is much more to Nevada than Las Vegas! :)

[tom_paine]

14. "League of Nations called for Nazi Accountability"

Same thing. The Busheviks are kissin' cousins to the Nazis, failing to match them only in the areas of violence and racism.

(does not Totalitarianism need to arrive each time in a NEW form?)

Still, it seems that the United Nation is determined to replicate the mistakes of the League of nations, as the Democrats replicate the mistakes of the German Social Democrats of 1933.

Sigh. Things don't really change much, do they?

[jokerman93]

17. Haven't seen you posting in a while T_P

Good to see you haven't been disappeared.

;-)

Jokerman

[Kralizec]

18. A sand grain of victory for Natives. eom