#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #colonialviolence, aggregated by home.social.
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Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.
#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886
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Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.
#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886
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Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.
#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886
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Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.
#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886
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Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.
#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886
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"Another Palestinian village in the #WestBank has been attacked by #IsraeliSettlers. The lack of response by the army and police reveals how deeply corrupted they are by the colonialist agenda."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/qusra-under-siege-david-shulman/
https://archive.ph/Fn7L9
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"The line that the onslaught by #Israel against #Gaza, the #WestBank and #Lebanon is about Hamas and Hizbullah is undercut by a closer look at the indiscriminate nature of the killing and uprooting of Arabs whatever their religion. The Vatican has expressed its concern at the violence against Christian villages in Southern Lebanon and in Gaza. St Porphyrius Church in Gaza was destroyed by Israel in October 2023."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/we-suffer-together
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https://kolektiva.media/w/7A3nrLtDa5TMCdUGbEutXv
On August 17, 2026, the military police and farmers launched yet another series of attacks against the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, this time at the Aratikuty reclaimed land in Dourados, in the territories occupied by the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
On the 19th, the military police carried out an eviction without a court order. They attacked Indigenous people with tear gas, rubber bullets, and live rounds. They also arrested five people.
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« #Lebanon I think is a playground for all the frustrations - whether American or Israeli - to express themselves. It's like the Lebanese are going to pay the price of the fact that everything went wrong in #Iran. »
Political scientist #AurélieDaher talks w/ Doug Henwood about #Israel's #colonialViolence in #SouthLebanon, the state of #LebanesePolitics, and the #LebaneseResistance
https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-august-20-2026/
#Hezbollah #Hizbullah #Hizballah #MiddleEastWar -
"Today I speak with #ArabBarghouti about his father, #MarwanBarghouti, his arrest in 2002, the political trial that followed, and why his case has become central to the broader struggle for Palestinian rights. Arab also explains how the prison system has worsened since October 2023, and why he sees Marwan as a symbol of hope, legitimacy, and political unity in #Palestine." - #FrankBarat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2-2IWrkUY
#FreeMarwanBarghouti #politicalPrisoners #PalestinianPrisoners #colonialViolence -
“Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
#DemocracyNow #Internet #Culture #CulturalHegemony #Ai #History #Ethics #Policy #Law #Economics #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Patriarchy #Ethnocentrism #ColonialViolence #AlgorithmicViolence #WhiteSupremacy
@timnitGebru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB-NQtsKrs -
"Ceasing fire in #Gaza means continuing oppression by other means. Vocabulary is managed like territory, unilaterally. #Israel, once again, is making an ostensibly temporary situation into one of stable degradation – relative stability for Israel, further depredation for Gaza."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/meanings-of-ceasefire
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"In this Zeteo town hall, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Haifa-based lawyer Diana Buttu, independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel and Palestininan human rights campaign Fadi Quran to discuss the rise of violence in the occupied #WestBank, including sexual violence against Palestinian women, U.S.-backed settlements and Israeli impunity under Biden and Trump."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E969pOjI6y8
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This is #Palestine w/ Diana Buttu
"As violence escalates in #Lebanon, many are drawing comparisons to #Gaza. In this episode, we speak with Palestinian journalist and activist Lama Abu Kharoub, from Burj el-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, who shares firsthand insights from Lebanon, where communities continue to face displacement, destruction, and uncertainty despite repeated promises of multiple ceasefires."
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/where-have-we-seen-this-before-the-gazafication-of-lebanon/id1509337661?i=1000780278268
#warOnLebanon #massDisplacement #urbicide #colonialViolence -
#BadHasbara ( #TheWorldsMostMoralPodcast ) welcomes journalist #JasperNathaniel
discussed: "Jasper’s recent travels in the #WestBank, the brazen, cavalier settler and IDF violence visited upon #Palestinians and Jasper himself"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuPa270DXXE&pp=ygULYmFkIGhhc2JhcmE%3D
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#AmericanPrestige livestream with journo #JasperNathaniel to discuss the stepped up Israeli settler #colonialViolence on the occupied #WestBank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpidhELxCs&t=2825s&pp=ygURYW1lcmljYW4gcHJlc3RpZ2U%3D
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"On July 1, #Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. Embassy in #Jerusalem on confiscated Palestinian property. Among the descendants of the Palestinian families who own the site is historian #RashidKhalidi. He details his family’s nearly 30 year legal battle against the planned embassy — and reflects on whether the hundred-year war on #Palestine may finally be entering a new chapter..."
https://www.972mag.com/podcast-rashid-khalidi-us-embassy-jerusalem/
#USpol #colonialViolence #Nakba -
Racialized and Gendered Colonial Violence at Home and Abroad:
Everything is still gender…
#JamelleBouie #BlackFedi #LGBTQ #Trans #US #Culture #Gender #GenderPerformance #Patriarchy #Misogyny #ColonialViolence #PeteHegseth
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Another excellent, sprawling series from the #TheDigRadio: Nusantara covers the history of #Indonesia from the period of Dutch #colonialism to the present.
Latest ep (no. 7) covers conflicts in the state's colonial periphery: #WestPapua, #EastTimor & #Aceh
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/nusantara-ep-7-suhartos-fall/
series site: https://thedigradio.com/Nusantara/
#DutchEastIndiaCompany #SoutheastAsia #colonialViolence #decolonization #Sukarno #Suharto #PKI #decolonialStruggles #FreeWestPapua #documentaries
cc @Jinjirrie
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JVP welcomes Cherokee journalist #RebeccaNagle to discuss her new podcast series #FirstAmerica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGTePBm_fw
series website: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #settlerColonialism #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries #USA250 -
'[C]ontrasting today’s deepening dependence and the loss of heirloom varieties against the region’s storied past, said to be the birthplace of #agriculture itself, feels like rubbing salt in the wound. “Lebanon’s millennia-old agricultural heritage—one of the oldest in the world—is under imminent threat,” Salloum told me.'
Seeds of War
https://thebaffler.com/latest/seeds-of-war-dhenin
#Lebanon #warOnLebanon #colonialViolence #neocolonialism #ecocide #biodiversity #environment #agribusiness #foodSecurity -
"[T]his faction of the Lebanese ruling class preferred to bet on a US-sponsored security and political agreement with #Israel seeking to disarm #Hezbollah without any real serious Israeli counterparts and guarantees, except for symbolic words about Lebanese sovereignty." - #JosephDaher
https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-framework-agreement-Lebanon-Israel-a-capitulation-to-multiple-threats
#Lebanon #LebanesePolitics #Iran #warOnLebanon #warOnIran #geopolitics #colonialViolence -
'Diplomats and Lebanese officials from across the political spectrum have quietly acknowledged the mammoth obstacles facing the new #Israel - #Lebanon peace framework – with one Western diplomat privately dismissing it as a “non-starter”.'
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/07/04/non-starter-behind-closed-doors-diplomats-doubt-lebanon-israel-deal-can-succeed/
#warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #LebanesePolitics #colonialViolence -
"The #Israel - #Lebanon framework agreement signed in Washington on June 26, 2026, threatens to betray #warCrimes victims in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch and five #humanRights and press freedom organizations said today."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/03/lebanon/israel-framework-agreement-betrays-victims-of-war-crimes-in-lebanon
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"#Canada’s response demonstrates that extreme #violence can proceed without consequence when the perpetrators align with the interests of empire." https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-gaza-world-order/
#Cdnpoli #genocide #SettlerColonialism #ColonialViolence #Palestine #HumanRightsViolations #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
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'The provision “is not just controversial, it is deeply problematic”, said Nadim Houry, head of the think tank Arab Reform Initiative. “The Lebanese government is giving a liability shield for the severe crimes committed by #Israel in #Lebanon,” he told The National.'
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/07/02/how-one-clause-could-complicate-lebanons-pursuit-of-justice-for-israeli-war-crimes/
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“The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages' [...] According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.”
Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle talks about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/30/rebecca_nagle_first_america
(v. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america)
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries -
" #Israel's nearly four-month air and ground campaign that it says was targeting Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has damaged or destroyed revered #heritageSites across southern #Lebanon, Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame told Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-damaged-heritage-sites-across-south-lebanon-minister-says-2026-06-28/
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Elie Mystal and Angela Rye: Do Black Lives Matter in Law?
#JoyReid #BlackFedi #Blackmastodon #US #Politics #SCOTUS #ReformSCOTUS #Christofascism #WhiteNationalism #AmericanApartheid #StateViolence #ColonialViolence
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"The wars in southern #Lebanon and #Gaza are exceptional in the degree to which #Israel has been directly targeting medical infrastructure—not to strain it but to literally flatten it. In Gaza this pattern was noted early on: Israel dropped its bombs closer and closer to medical facilities, then switched to carrying out direct strikes with impunity." - #MaryTurfah
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/06/24/safety-is-when-theres-no-one-dying-lebanon-children/
https://archive.ph/sfayI
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Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle joins Nick Estes to talk about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0sHsVF-tQ
"Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading #NativeHistorians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of #Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy."
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america
#NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries -
When the murderer of an #Indigenous person is characterized as the victim, this #Conservative's rant clearly falls into the #whiteFragility or #whiteSupremacist category. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/05/21/manitoba-politician-calls-saskatchewan-farmer-who-killed-colten-boushie-a-victim?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9w5w9Kfqqz0qvY74sAiLt3u-mT_nsBt00NaiWvgiULxr3O3OFmWQaZ2hltFg9HcUJY67vTFyeTXZZXNiadyA6EGYdf7w&_hsmi=16085228
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Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.
Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)
https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/
#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse
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Two #Environmental #ActivistArt pieces, for free, public, non-commercial usage.
Over the years, I've collected a lot of activist art graphics from Tumblr, Reddit & other sites where the artist wasn't always identified. I looked up who these artists were to identify them.The 1st is by Roger Peet.
https://thefunambulist.net/network/roger-peetThe 2nd & 3rd are by Pete Railand.
https://www.peterailand.com/I was a part of #StopTMX in 4 separate frontlines places across mainland BC & saw the ecocide, up close. BC NDP sent their CIRG goons in at remote areas of BC, where we had set up citizens watch stations. CIRG came to harass, beat up & eventually remove us. #RCMP protect corporate interests/profits, not citizens.
https://www.stoptmx.ca/#TransMountainPipeline #StopEcocide #NoTMX #BanCorporateLobbyists #EcoCrimes #PublicAccountability #StopCorporateWelfare #MakePollutersPay #DirtySnakeOil #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ClimateCrisis #Ecological #Art #Activism #WaterIsLife #ProtectWater #ColonialViolence #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CapitalistEvils #DavidEby #MarkCarney #AbolishCIRG #ProtectNature #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #StopInsuringEcoCrimes #Burnaby #Vancouver #YVR #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #StopInsuringTransMountain #CanadianEcocide
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"At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of #IndigenousChildren in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald #Trump’s administration."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-makes-major-cuts-093504202.html
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH -
"On this #InternationalDayOfEducation, we honour the right to education as a cornerstone of hope and freedom. Yet, for #PalestinianStudents and academics, this right remains under attack as they contend with the aftermath of #Israel’s fifteen-month campaign of #scholasticide." - Friends of Birzeit University
Our Universities Live On: Testimonials of Hope from #Gaza
#WarOnGaza #oPt #Palestine #ColonialViolence #FOBZU #OTD @palestine @israel
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Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.
A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.
Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk
#ColonialViolence #GlobalSouth #Kenya #BritishColonizers #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #HumanHistory #Geopolitics #BritishHistory #ColonialExploitation #ColonialAbuses #MauMau #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #Educational #DocFilm #Africa #BlackHistory #POCstories #LearnHistory #SystematicRacism #Torture #WarCrimes #UKhistory #ColonialAtrocities #historians #history
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#RCMP issued an #apology on September 7, 2024, for the historic use of #StreetChecks and other harmful interactions with members of the #African #NovaScotian community. It was an apology too long in coming, for treatment that was, in the words of Rev. Lennett Anderson, “dehumanizing and tragic.” And the RCMP's history suggests we should be deeply skeptical that the proposed action plan will be even close to what is required to remedy these grave injustices.
In his 2019 report, written for the #NovaScotia #HumanRights Commission, Dr. Scot Wortley defines street checks as any occasion in which civilians are stopped by #police and subjected to intrusive questions, and their personal information collected into a database. He confirmed what community members have known for years: people of African descent in the #Halifax region are almost six times more likely to face street checks.
It took five years after the release of this report for the RCMP to apologize for the harms caused. They also committed to an action plan, developed in consultation with members of 13 African Nova Scotian communities and the Association of #Black #SocialWorkers.
https://mediacoop.ca/node/119259
#CDNpoli #NSpoli #DefundRCMP #SystematicRacism #ColonialViolence #RacialProfiling #RacistRCMP #RacistCops #ACAB #BlackCanadians #Maritimes #BlackCommunity #ColonialInjustices #SocialJustice #BIPOC #POCinCanada
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#Free #Decolonial #OpenAccess #Research Paper.
Building the #SettlerColonial Order: #Police (In)Actions in Response to #Violence Against #IndigenousWomen in #Canada
Abstract:
In this article we focus on missing and murdered #Indigenous women, girls, and #2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of #testimonies across Canada, this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other Canadian cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The #analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler #colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432231171171
#CDNpoli #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #SystematicRacism #KKKanada #ColonialViolence #RacistRCMP #ACAB #Injustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #CanadianCops #MMIGW2S
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#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.
About Murder by Decree
Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.
Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .
#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation
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One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.
The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.
#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.
When the Malayan #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.
The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.
Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.
#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #ColonialismInAsia #Decolonization #DecolonialLearning #ColonizerCrimes #ColonialViolence #Decolonize #AsianHistory #MalaysianHistory #LearnYourColonialHistory
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#ColonialCrimes : World #Map of #Justice Initiatives.
“Don’t portray us as a band of beggars coming to demand reparation. […] I think the Europeans have obligations to us, like all the unfortunate, but especially to us for harms that they caused. That is what I call reparation.” These words of Aimé Césaire, renowned Martinican author of “Discourse on Colonialism”, still resonate everywhere in the world 71 years after they were published.
The issue concerns 70% of the world’s population, either as a citizen of a colonizing country or as one of the colonized, according to French #history professor Bouda Etemad, author of the book “Crimes and Reparations, the West faced with its colonial past”. The colonized and their descendants, he writes, have the right to demand #reparation from the #European powers for the harms these States committed over a period of 500 years, from the “discovery” of #America by Christopher #Colombus to independence in the second half of the 20th century. Forced labour, slavery, persecution, executions, extermination, bombardments, looting and forced cultural #assimilation: the list is long of violent #abuses that accompanied #colonization in #Africa, the Near East, #Asia, the Americas, #Oceania and northern #Europe.
This special focus concentrates on the period known as the “second #colonial empire” which from 1815 marked the new #expansionism of the Western powers until the wave of independence in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colonial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html
#Legal #InternationalLaw #Decolonization #Landback #UNDRIP #ColonialTheft #ColonialExploitation #ColonialViolence #Injustices #TruthBeforeReconciliation #GlobalSouth #geopolitics
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*In case you missed reading this when it was first published last year.*
#Canada’s #NationalParks Are #Colonial #CrimeScenes.
Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched #nature is unrecognizable to #Indigenous people
In 2017, it felt like the whole country was swept up in the rah-rah celebrations around Canada 150. It was a collective anniversary, a chance to celebrate our history. Well, some of it, anyway. Tied to the many calls to explore the country and take stock of its many wonders, #ParksCanada released its Discovery Pass, which granted free entry to all national parks that year. These natural spaces “represent the very best that Canada has to offer,” it announced in a press release. “They are the essence of our country because they tell stories of who we are, including the history, cultures and contributions of Indigenous peoples.” But, as Robert Jago explored in his timely essay, Canada’s parks program was built on the displacement of Indigenous peoples and the capture of their territories—a form of “green colonialism.” Parks are wonderful spaces, but they have also acted as #political cover for the control of land, a tactic we still see used today.—Daniel Viola, senior editor, November 2023 issue.
https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/
#IndigenousLand #ColonialCrimes #CDNpoli #Landback #NativeLand #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #TRC #KKKanada #ColonialInjustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #ColonialResistance #ColonialViolence #CanadianHistory #HistoryOfCanada #History #Decolonization
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The notion of #police being there to #ServeAndProtect in times of need often does not apply to #Indigenous, #Black or other #RacializedMinorities in #Canada. The notion of “help” more often resembles harm.
This leads to the question, why does #PoliceBrutality against Indigenous and Black people continue to happen? Because it is a symptom of the structural #racism that exists within #Canadian society.
You can read article & download the brief:
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/07/15/police-brutality-in-canada-a-symptom-of-structural-racism-and-colonial-violence/#ACAB #CDNpoli #BCpoli #SystematicRacism #RacializedViolence #CriminalCops #NoAccountability #AbolishPoliceUnions #AbolishRCMPCIRG #ColonialViolence #Racism #BIPOC #Injustices #HumanRights #CopsAreCriminals