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August 27, 2010
In response to a cry for help from Tanzania, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) called upon the Minister of Tourism in the East African country on Friday to stop the expulsion of Maasai from the Loliondo Game Control Area. "Please do not renew
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August 25, 2010
Dear Minister,
We well remember taking part with the young novice politician Guido Westerwelle in an event in the Market Square of the then German Federal capital of Bonn in 1992, condemning the genocide that was taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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August 24, 2010
Since January 2010, at least 964 civilians have been killed and 2,717 wounded in armed conflicts or in random shootings in residential neighborhoods, as reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). "While the atrocious attack by Islamic rebels in which members of the Somali parliament were killed kindles outrage around world, the daily suffering of the civilian population in Somalia attracts hardly any attention," notes Ulrich Delius, head of the Africa section at the STP on Tuesday in Göttingen.
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August 20, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) condemns yesterday's attack by a Uighur on a police patrol in the city of Aksu (Xinjiang Autonomous Region/East Turkestan) in northwestern China. Seven people were killed and 14 wounded in the attack. "Violence is not the solution to the growing problems in northwestern China; it just fuels tensions in the region," declared Ulrich Delius, head of the Asia section at the STP.
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July 29, 2010
The 27-year-old Mapuche Pascual Pichún Collonao has been sitting in the public prison Traiguén (IX. Region) in Chile since February 26, 2010. He, along with his brother Rafael, allegedly set a truck on fire during a Mapuche demonstration in 2002. After an exceptionally long pre-trial custody of 294 days, the brothers were each sentenced to five years imprisonment in addition to a fine. After fierce protests, the prison sentence was changed to a suspended sentence, and the brothers were released shortly thereafter. When in November of 2003 the proceedings against them were resumed and a warrant of arrest reissued, Pascual and Rafael went into hiding. Rafael was discovered and was arrested on July 21, 2005. Pascual fled to Argentina and dedicated himself to fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples. He was rearrested during a visit to his family in Temuco, Chile at the end of February 2010. For his family, the experience is similar to that of many other Mapuche families whose members are engaged in the fight for the rights of their people.
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July 23, 2010
The Civil War in Guatemala (1960-1996) officially ended 14 years ago, but the human rights situation has barely improved since. The head of the UN-Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala – CICIG), Carlos Castresana, has stepped down from his position as a statement of protest against the lack of support from the Guatemalan government for his work.
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June 23, 2010
One year after the bloody clashes, resulting in 34 dead and more than 200 seriously injured, between the police and the indigenous people of the northern Peruvian area of the Amazon basin near the small town of Bagua, Alberto Pizango, the president of the Peruvian Indigenous peoples Organisation AIDESEP, returned from exile. Now he is to be put on trial. He is being accused of being responsible for the massacre. The trial is pending. Please appeal to the Peruvian Ambassador, S.E. Herrn José Luis Pérez Sánchez-Cerro, The Peruvian Minister for Justice Dr Victor Garcia Toma and the President of the Peruvian Congress Luis Alva Castro, to ensure a fair trial for Albert Pizango and the ratification of the law on consultations.
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