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Date: 8/13/91
7th European Meeting of north American Indian Support Groups
July 15 - 20th 1991, Stadtroda, Thuringia, Germany
Resolution on freedom for Leonard Peltier
Whereas
some aboriginal people are unjustly imprisoned for defending
their traditional identities and the right of aboriginal nations to
their self-determination and survival, and
Whereas
the prime example in North America of a political prisoner
is Leonard Peltier, Lakota/Chippewa, falsely imprisoned for 16 years,
as a result of a gross miscarriage of justice, which commenced with a
breach of trust and violation of Canadian sovereignty by obtaining
his extradition from Canada in 1976 by means of the submission of
fabricated evidence, and which continued with the suppression of
evidence and a denial of due process during criminal proceedings in
the United States, and
Whereas
the U.S.A. has always wished to be seen as a symbol of
freedom and democracy and over 20 million people all over the world
have already expressed their concern that these ideals are being
undermined by the Leonard Peltier case,
We, European citizens from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France,
Italy, Germany, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland
and the United Kingdom and the representatives from various aboriginal
nations and organisations from the United States and Canada,
participating in the 7th European Meeting of North American Indian
Support Groups demand justice for Leonard Peltier in the form of a
new trial or his immediate release.
We ask our respective governments to take appropriate steps to obtain
this goal.
Moved by:
Angela Warsitz (society for threatened peoples), Germany
Seconded by:
Marek Nowocien (Polish American Indian Friends Association), Poland
Ria Verjauw (Walk Across America For Nother Earth 1992), Belgium
Martina Roels (KWIA), Belgium
Verena Meyer (Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology), Germany
Viktor Borchert (Working- group indigenous peoples), Netherlands
Anette Sanne and
Gudrun Schuldes (society for threatened people), Germany
Britta Ryan (Incomindios), Switzerlands
Joyce Wesaw (Natives Prisoner's Rights Committee), U.S.A.
Carolin Gebel (ASNAI), Germany
Passed: unanimously
Date: July 19, 1991
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Chairman of the meeting: Bernd Damisch
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