Hello!
The following letter of protest has been send out to Brian Baloney,
concerning the emission of a so-called "standard response" and a
"fact sheet" to Canadian embassies word-wide.
Greetings!
Oliver
Big Mountain Aktionsgruppe
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Muenchen, January 10, 1992
Dear Sir,
Recently I received a letter designed by your administration as a standard
response for questions and protest concerning the Lubicon situation in
Northern Alberta brought forward to more than 50 Canadian missions
worldwide. The paper and the attached so-called "fact sheet" are another
gross example of your government's attempt to distort facts, to deny
responsibilities and to ly to the ever growing public witnessing Human
Rights violations against the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation.
I would like to comment on a few feats of this propaganda paper:
The size of Belguim and the Netherlands are very well known here in Europe
as opposed to the geographical capacities of Progressive Conservative
think tanks hammering out your specially designed disinformation campaigns.
It is very well known that the traditional unceded Lubicon Land does not
exceed 10 000 sqkm, while Belguim and the Netherlands cover a territory of
about 70 000 sqkm. What your earth science experts should know, however,
is that the timber lease blanketing the entire Lubicon territory which so
willingly has been handed over to Daishowa Canada by Canadian authorities
approximately covers an area as large as the Dutch or the Swiss territory.
While your Forestry Minister Oberle is travelling around in Europe bragging
about the size and the resources of Canada, which is commonly known to
cover a disputed territory of 9.97 million sqkm (having come into possession
and still being created by administrative genocide and massive resource
theft), the government of resource-rich and vast Canada is not able to
properly address the Human Rights of 500 people in Northern Alberta.
Your paper specifically mentions the fact that the future reserve is
exempted from clear-cutting by logging companies and how generous and wise
this all is. Of course this is all nonsense intended to deceive the public.
Your own administration already accepted in the so-called generous offer in
1989 the existence of Lubicon land rights exceeding the size of the future
reserve, also exceeding entitlements under Treaty 8. Since your well-planned
sabotage offer of January 1989 there have been no negotiations, no cessions
or sales of Lubiocn land which cannot mean anything else than that the
Lubicon Lake Indian Nation still holds unextinguished aboriginal title to
their traditional land, regardless the size of a future reserve. The paper
in short reflects the following situation: The thief when caught excused
himself by stating that he did not steal anything that he wasn't interested
in anyway.
Another attempt to deceive the public by making false claims is your
reference to the UN Human Rights Commission. The UN Human Rights
Commission never said that the so-called "fair", "reasonable", "generous"
and what-have-you offer of 1989 was an appropriate remedy to the grievances
inflicted on the Lubicon people by the Canadian government. The UN
Commission said that negotiations are an appropriate remedy, expressing
their opinion that there should be a political solution as opposed to a
legal one to this matter. Since there are no negotiations going on and
since a settlement has not been achieved Canada therefore still is in
violation of Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights as having been signed by Canada.
Being disgusted with these all too demagogic, poorly covered lies and
distortions we see no reason to end the ongoing Campaign against Daishowa
Canada, its customers and subsidiaries. Infact we feel compelled to
increase our efforts.
Yours sincerely
Ludwig Seiller Dionys Zink
Chairperson, BMAG Member of the Board, BMAG
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