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A report titled Criminalization, Intimidation and Harassment of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders was released Dec. 11 by Amnesty International.
It condemns actions undertaken against hereditary leadership and their supporters who have sought to halt construction of a #pipeline that will transport natural gas extracted from the Dawson Creek area to a liquified natural gas export facility near Kitimat, B.C.
#BC #Canada: Whose police? #RCMP unit acts as a private security force, critics say | The Fifth Estate, CBC documentary 42:30 minutes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQO2RIytszY #Wetsuweten #CGL #FairyCreek #CIRG #BizHumanRights
Coastal GasLink has resumed construction after B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office lifted some stop-work orders in a 14-kilometre stretch late last week.
But did the measures accomplish anything? @afh reports.
Wet'suwet'en Testify on #PoliceBrutality, #Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023
"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (#IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by #AmnestyInternational, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust #criminalization and #harassment of #LandDefenders opposing the construction of the #CoastalGasLink (#CGL) #pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and informed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html
#Canada #ACAB
#Wetsuweten #FirstNations #IndigenousNews
#UN #DeclarationOfRights of #IndigenousPeoples
#CulturalGenocide #Pipelines
bsnorrell.blogspot.comWet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on Human RightsCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
BC #EnergyRegulator #BCER is #investigating after #CoastalGasLink #CGL reported 2 spills of #ClayLubricant while it was tunnelling under #MoriceRiver to build a #LNG #pipeline through northern #BritishColumbia.
The area has been the site of #conflict between #Wetsuweten #HereditaryChiefs & supporters & CGL, its workers & the #RCMP .
The #SalmonBearing Morice River on Wet'suwet'en #TraditionalTerritory, is 0a #sacred #headwater called the #WedzinKwa
CBCCoastal GasLink reports 2 spills while tunnelling under Morice River in northern B.C. | CBC NewsThe B.C. Energy Regulator is investigating after Coastal GasLink reported two spills of clay lubricant while it was tunnelling under the Morice River to build a natural gas pipeline through northern British Columbia.
“They ( #Canada & #CGL ) don’t care about the land. All they care about is the #money ” says #ChiefGisdaywa. “We don’t want the money. We want our land. Once we #pollute this #river that’ll be it. Everything down the line… our fish will be gone, once our fish are gone our wildlife will be gone. And once they’re gone, we’ll be right behind them.”
RicochetBrandi Morin: For the Wet’suwet’en, latest RCMP raid confirms that reconciliation is ‘dead’ | Ricochet‘They don’t care about the land. All they care about is the money’