Nothing Has Changed / Ezer Ez Da Aldatu

The Basque newspaper Gara is broadcasting this video produced by TAT.

This is the text that goes with the video:

Once again, you will read the report we didn't want to write. The report which collects the testimonies of people who have known the hell. This year the report has 42 testimonies, ¿when will come the last one?

At the same time, people who have suffered torture in the last 30 years have looked us to the eyes and have composed a poem. We have recorded them in a DVD. The look in their eyes and their words. The eyes and the words that have known the darkness.

XXIst Century, 8th year. When the hushed up screams of the tortured people will wake us up?

On sale with Gara newspaper on saturday 9th of February and sunday 10th of February. 9,95€

We must demand from Madrid to stop the widespread practice of torture against the Basques and many other groups that are easy prey to the repressive forces in authoritarian Spain represented by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and led by Juan Carlos Borbon.

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Eva

This bio about the great freedom fighter Eva Forest was published at ZNet:

Eva Forest: The Passing of a Spanish Icon

Supriyo Chatterjee

It was typical of Eva Forest, who died after an illness on May 19 at Hondarribia in Basque country, Spain, at the age of 79, to tell a friend days before her passing that she was living the best days of her life. A Left-wing icon whom the Spanish state could never silence nor smear, defiant till the very end of the harsh Spanish political system, and a great friend of Vietnam, Cuba and latterly of Venezuela and Bolivia, she is being remembered with great affection throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Eva was born into a politically active family in Barcelona in 1928. Her painter father, an anarchist who felt that schools were a repressive institution, kept her at home for as long as he lived. It was some time after his death in 1936 that she set foot in a formal educational institute. That also was the year in which the civil war started and in 1939 Eva was at the point of being flown out to Russia from a nursery created with Swiss help for Spanish children, when her mother pulled her out of the truck moments before it set off towards the evacuation point.

Eva Forest gained a degree in psychiatry at Madrid and at the final year of her studies in 1955 she met and married Alfonso Sastre, playwright, essayist and a relentless critic of censorship lf the Franco era. They stayed together till the end, a couple who collaborated so closely in their work that they progressively thought and wrote alike.

With Aflonso's persecution in Spain, the couple left for Paris in 1956, where their first son was born. At this time, she moved away from psychiatry towards a "sui generis sociology" and wrote her first novel, Febrero. They returned to Spain in 1962 and she was detained after joining other women demonstrating in support of Asturian miners. She was fined, refused to pay it and was sent to prison with her new-born daughter.

In 1968, Franco imposed a state of emergency. Eva's response was to edit, along with her friends, a clandestine journal, Information, and the more widely circulated samizdat publication, State of Emergency. A Catalan by birth, her identification with the Basque cause started with characteristic fearlessness in 1970, when she was among those who worked to set up a solidarity committee during the farcical Burgos trial of 1970 against Basque prisoners, which ended with death sentences being handed out and later commuted following an international outcry. She was arrested in 1974 for writing under the pseudonym of Julen Agirre Operation Ogre, a book that detailed the car bomb assassination in 1973 by the Basque group, ETA, of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish premier and Franco's most intimate collaborator. Eva was tortured and kept in preventive custody for three years, accused of collaborating with ETA, a charge never proven.

Her account of imprisonment, translated as From a Spanish Prison, shone light on the arbitrariness of the Spanish justice system and her own humanity and capacity for love for her children, her family and others amid great adversity. Prison was also the impulse for her to set up TAT, a group dedicated to working against torture, and to write extensively on the subject. As a torture victim herself, she campaigned till the very end against torture, ruing that despite years of all the work, it still tended to be common place.

After her release, the family moved to Basque country where Eva lived till the end. She aligned herself with the Basque Left and was at one time elected as a regional Senator on a Left ticket. She was also an incorrigible internationalist who could feel as her own the pain of others. We are responsible for own actions and our own silences, she said and Eva did not do silence. She visited Iraq in 1998 and wrote a book about it, 'Iraq, a Challenge to the New World Order?' She was intrigued by the anthropology of the 'new man' emerging in Cuba, interviewing peasants who learn for the first time to speak out in public and live in solidarity with others.

Eva Forest was a prolific writer, of novels and polemical reports on issues that were not profitable to commercial publishers. Since 1990 she kept herself busy with Hitu, her own publishing company that functioned on cooperative lines. She would edit, translate, pack and even sell books. The most eloquent homage to her is something she had written as an eulogy for one of her companions: "Pick up the sleep of our deaths and turn them into a creative arm that perforates impossibles and drills through utopia in search of new ways of speeding up the process of humanisation." Alfonso, her own companion of a lifetime, survives her and so does his little prophecy: "And one day, companion, we will return in triumph to the inhabited space that never was ours".

(Eva Forest 1928-2007)

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Torture in Western Europe

Everytime one thinks Western Europe, one usually thinks of democratic states where the rule of law is upheld and the citizens live their lives without the fear of being repressed by the police.

Somehow Spain manages to get into that picture.

Yet, the evidence to the contrary keeps mounting.

A large percentage of the people that was arrested last couple of months accused of belonging to ETA are now free, there was no evidence to support a process.

They were guilty until proven innocent, a justice travesty quite common in Spain.

One after the other the detainees have logged complaints for mistreatment and torture during the five days they were held incommunicado, a practice that facilitates the torture of those arrested by the police forces.

Here is one more story of a young Basque woman that was tortured and raped for the sole crime of being Basque, it appeared at Berria.

Urizar says Spanish Civil Guard officers raped her with pistol

Her mother has brought to public attention the testimony of the brutal torture she endured while she was being held incommunicado

Aitziber Laskibar – BILBO

Blows, the bag, the bathtub, threats, insults, sexual assaults, fondling and rape. This is the list of everything that Bilbo-born Amaia Urizar, aged 22, suffered during the five days she was in the hands of the Spanish Civil Guard, according to what Urizar herself has written from prison and the testimony read out by her mother during a press conference. Her mother gave details of the brutal torture her daughter had endured. Although her mother, Rosa De Paz, tried to maintain her composure with dignity, her hands shook and she was unable to hold back the tears as he told of the spine-chilling ordeal her daughter had been put through during the five days she was held incommunicado.

Urizar, who is from Bilbo, was arrested at her parents’ home early on October 29 accused of helping ETA. It was the second arrest in the police operation that began with the detention of Haritz Totorika, and was followed by a further eight arrests. All the people arrested in that swoop by the Spanish Civil Guard denounced brutal torture.

Izaskun Gonzalez, a member of the anti-torture group TAT, pointed out that the brutality of the testimonies heard yesterday was similar to that endured by all the other detainees; the dreadful torture suffered by Urizar is not an isolated case. The rest of the people arrested in the same raid denounced the bag, electrodes, the bathtub, rape attempts, blows and threats, among other things.

The detainee alleges that she was raped by Spanish Civil Guards at the police station; a police officer climbed onto the 22-year-old girl and as he fondled his penis between his legs, he raped her with his pistol which, according to the officers, was loaded with bullets.

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Facilitating Torture

Today at Berria:

Detainees held incommunicado to facilitate torture

The anti-torture association TAT and the pro-amnesty movement AAM have launched a campaign to secure effective commitments and have appealed to political parties and social players

Aitziber Laskibar – BILBO

“They are tortured, because they are held incommunicado. Furthermore, they are held incommunicado, so that they can be tortured.” Thus affirmed TAT member Aiert Larrarte yesterday during a press conference in Bilbo, in which he was accompanied by the lawyer Jon Enparantza and a number of young people who had been arrested during the last few weeks and who, after complaining that they had been tortured, were released. He pointed out that the young people had been held incommunicado after their arrest during the operation conducted by the Spanish Civil Guard in Bizkaia and that all of them had denounced being subjected to severe torture; he added that “16 people are in incommunicado detention at the moment; just imagine what they are going through right now in the hands of the police”.

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Anti-Torture Campaign

Today at Berria English:

TAT: “Last year was a significant one in the anti-torture campaign”

They say “a massive outcry” against torture has come from society, but the momentum has to be kept up

Ainhoa Oiartzabal – HERNANI (Gipuzkoa)

“Unfortunately, we’ve already begun to gather material for next year’s book. Because there are arrests and tortured people.” That is how Iñigo Elkoro, the TAT-Anti-Torture Group lawyer, began yesterday’s presentation of the book which provides an assessment of 2003. It will be distributed on April 24 and 25 together with the Gara daily newspaper. Thereafter it will be on sale at bookshops.

In the TAT’s view, 2003 was “a significant year” in the anti-torture campaign. Indeed, “there was a massive outcry against torture from Basque society when detainees denounced tortures in the wake of the closing down of Egunkaria, but unfortunately it did not last.” Elkoro stressed that this attitude was “praiseworthy, but we are going to repeat what we have said time and time again: this momentum of denunciation has to be kept up, if we are to put an end to torture.” In this respect, the TAT lawyer highlighted the 50,000 signatures against torture collected last year and made a call to politicians: “Society has shown it is prepared to take steps against torture. Now it is up to the political parties to take up society’s cause.” After the political assessment, Elkoro and Aiert Larrarte, the TAT representatives, presented the main areas covered by the book. A number of them are referred to below.

25th Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution

“Last year was the 25th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution and although it prohibits any form of torture, 10,000 Basque citizens have been arrested and held incommunicado over the past 25 years. 25% of them have suffered torture or bad treatment.” Elkoro added that six people had died as a result.

In the lawyer’s view, it has become patently clear over the last 25 years that the Constitution is no guarantee against the use of torture on Basque citizens: “On the contrary, laws have been changed to ensure torture can be used.”

Criticism from international institutions

Elkoro highlighted the fact that Spain had come in for fierce criticism abroad over the last few years. “We can refer, for example, to the visit by Theo van Boven, the United Nations Rapporteur on Torture, and to the criticism voiced by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.”

Change in attitude of the French Police

“Last year saw the French Police joining the torturers’ club”. In fact, four people arrested by the French Police in 2003 denounced torture.

Role of court-appointed doctors

The book deals at length with the part played by the court-appointed doctors. In this respect Benito Morentin, a Bilbo court-appointed doctor, Itxaso Idoiaga, the TAT doctor, and Hans Draminsky Petersen, member of the Danish association Physicians for Human Rights (Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims) examined the work of Spanish court-appointed doctors, criticised them and explained what they should be like.

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United Against Torture

Today at Berria English:

Thousands in Donostia unite against torture

Crowds of people joined the demo organised by TAT with the slogan “25 years of Torture. Enough is Enough”

Gurutze Izagirre – DONOSTIA (San Sebastian)

Thousands of people, 20,000 say the organisers, gathered in Donostia yesterday opposing torture in a demonstration organised by TAT. The slogan on the banner ran: “25 urte torturapean. Aski da” (25 years of Torture. Enough is Enough). The banner was carried by many of the people who have denounced torture like Unai Romano, Martxelo Otamendi, Anika Gil and Leire Gallastegi. They were joined by the relatives of people who have died on police premises: the relatives of Xabier Kalparsoro, Gurutze Iantzi, Mikel Zabaltza and Joseba Arregi. Together with the multitude that had gathered behind them they marched along the Donostia streets.

The march set off from the Boulevard of Donostia at exactly 17.30 hours. Behind the main banner came the people from political parties and many social organisations who were supporting the TAT call. They included Batasuna members Arnaldo Otegi, Pernando Barrena, Joseba Permach and Koldo Gorostiaga, EA representatives Martin Aranburu and Rafa Larreina, Aralar’s Juan Martin Elexpuru; Pedro Albite was there from AuB, Jesus Mari Gete from LAB, Elkarri’s Maixus Rekalde and many TAT members. Throughout the march four police vans of the Ertzaintza led the way in front of the main banner. But there was no trouble at all. The demonstrators shouted slogans in the Donostia streets. They mostly included: “The police torture and kill”, “Repression is not the way”, “No, no, no to torture”, and “People are tortured here”. The demonstrators moved fairly rapidly along their route and as they crossed the streets in city centre of Donostia, the head of the demonstration reached its starting point, the Boulevard, once again. A lot of people could not get to the start of the march, because the city’s streets were packed. Many of them arrived at the end of the march and waited for the head of the demonstration to get to the Boulevard.

Those at the end of the march, however, got to the Boulevard at around 18.45, half an hour after the head had arrived. Bringing up the rear there was another banner carried by many people from Barañain [a town near Iruñea-Pamplona]. The slogan on the banner ran: “Barañain, 100 ahots errepresioaren aurka” (Barañain, 100 voices against repression).

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Video Against Torture

Today at Berria English:

TAT video against torture to start being shown to public

After the Office for Human Rights of the Basque Autonomous Community Government had indicated it would not be taking on the video, and as the video is not going to be shown on the EITB Basque Autonomous Community broadcasting network, TAT itself is planning to show it itself in the towns and neighbourhoods of the Basque Country

Eider Goenaga – HERNANI (Gipuzkoa)

In Hernani yesterday the TAT anti-torture group presented the video it has just produced to show that opposing torture is “the responsibility of the whole society”. TAT’s intention was for the Basque Government to take on the video and then broadcast it on EITB radio and TV. The Basque Government Office for Human Rights will not, however, be taking on the video, so it cannot be broadcast by the EITB. Consequently, TAT has assumed responsibility and will start spreading the video’s message in all the neighbourhoods and towns of the Basque Country.

The video produced by TAT starts with a scene of a man in a cell, naked, bending down with a hood on his head; Unai Romano, Susana Atxaerandio and Garikoitz Urizar then appear and give a brief testimony of the tortures they suffered. In the Spanish version of the video Oskar Bizkai speaks instead of Urizar. The video ends with a scene from the demo organised by TAT in Bilbo on June 8, 2002. “It’s not the problem of just a few. Torture is the scourge of society, it’s everyone’s responsibility,” says a voice at the end of the video.

According to Izaskun Gonzalez, the TAT representative, they were prompted to produce a video against torture by “the fact that a year and a half ago the Basque Government set up an initiative concerning victims”. “We aim to show that there is also another reality in the Basque Country, that there are other victims, too, and that there are many people suffering unspeakable pain.” With this aim in mind they met with Txema Urkijo of the Human Rights Office on Wednesday and explained TAT’s objective to him. Urkijo pointed out to them that the Basque Government would not be subscribing to the content of the video.

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Behatokia

Ok, lets start by posting the links to a few organizations working within Euskal Herria towards peace and democracy, the first one I want to point out is Behatokia, they are a group that is trying to bring attention upon the violations of civil and human rights in Euskal Herria. As usual the link to the site has been embedded on the list to the left of this page.

Here is the link to their site and how do they describe themselves:

Behatokia: Basque Observatory of Human Rights is an initiative launched by several Basque organizations in defense of the Human Rights. BEHATOKIA driving forces are: TAT (Group Against Torture), ETXERAT (Association of Relatives of the Politically Repressed), ESKUBIDEAK (Basque Solicitors Association) and GURASOAK (Association of Parents of Young Victims of the Repression).

The objective of these groups when launching BEHATOKIA, was to start up a center of intercommunication with international bodies, non-governmental organizations and groups who work in the defense of Human Rights in order to reveal the violation these rights both, generally and specifically.

Additionally, BEHATOKIA will work before courts and international tribunals interposing imputations where fundamental rights have been violated and confronting the pertinent Spanish and French institutions who have not corrected such situations. On top of it, a substantial part of BEHATOKIA's work will be based on the spreading of information regarding the violations of fundamental rights by the institutions.

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Van Boven Sets the Record Straight

Today in Berria.info:

Van Boven: “Denying the problem hinders the solution”

He pointed out that he would be looking into whether torture is “the tip of an iceberg or whether its practice is limited”

Editorial Staff – DONOSTIA (San Sebastian)

Theo Van Boven, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture, gave a press conference in Madrid yesterday. This week the UN representative has been visiting Spain and the Basque Country to investigate the torture claims that have been filed, and has held meetings with officials, civil society organisations and a number of people who have filed complaints of torture.

In his appearance before the press Van Boven said that he had received many testimonies and views, but added that depending on the sources they were “very contradictory”. He said he had been with “a number of people who had been tortured” and with other officials who had told him that “in Spain there is no torture.” In response to this he said, “denying the problem hinders the solution.” At the same time the UN representative pointed out that most sources had told him that “torture is not systematically applied.”

In Madrid he met with the Spanish Foreign and Interior Ministers, the Heads of the Spanish Police and Civil Guard, the Secretaries of State Security and Justice, the Attorney-General, the Head Public Prosecutor of the Spanish National High Court, the Spanish Ombudsman and Prison Institutions, among others.

In the Basque Country he was with Etxerat, the Torturaren Aurkako Taldea (anti-torture group), Elkarri, and with Javier Balza and Joseba Azkarraga, the heads of the Interior and Justice Departments, respectively, of the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community [of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa]. In addition, Van Boven heard the first-hand testimonies of Unai Romano and Juan Carlos Subijana, who were arrested in Gasteiz (Vitoria) in September 2001, and of Martxelo Otamendi, Joan Mari Torrealdai and Txema Auzmendi, detained in the Egunkaria case.

The declarations that were heard will make up the first item in the report due to be published between March and April of next year.

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AI and Torture

This report comes to us thanks to Behatokia:

Amnesty International annual report and visit to the Spanish state

“I am concerned about the tendency to torture detainees in relation to ETA”

Irene Khan, the president of Amnesty International, recently visited the Spanish state, where she made statements like the one above, which make it quite clear that this organisation does not believe torture has been eradicated in the Spanish state. Both in reference to the annual report and during her visit to the Spanish and Gasteiz parliaments, Khan expressed her concern about the situation of Human Rights in the Spanish state.

Annual report

AI presented their annual report where they include a number of matters for concern. Under the telling headline, “Crisis in the Basque Country” AI lists several incidents that question whether freedom of speech and reunion are a reality in the Basque Country, including the closure of newspapers, banning of political parties, etc. They expressed their concern about the closure of newspapers, as “this very serious measure happens in other countries such as Zimbabwe and Russia”.

AI also referred to the many torture complaints received, especially those made by the staff members of the closed newspaper “Egunkaria”, and stated “the best way to protect the state from false claims is to provide greater guarantees”, and expressed their fears that the reaction by the government, which insists upon denying the existence of torture, “may create a climate of impunity whereby detainees and prisoners are afraid to denounce acts of torture and ill treatment”. They criticised the fact that there have been no moves forward on the issue of torture and remembered the recommendations made by the international organisation CPT, which include putting an end to incommunicado detention and detainees’ right to have contact with a doctor and lawyer of their choice. They also underlined the fact that the government, rather than abolishing incommunicado detention, has actually prolonged its duration.

Visit to the parliament in Gasteiz

The president of AI, Irene Khan, travelled to the Basque Country a few days after presenting the annual report and met with the Regional Parliament Human Rights Commission. There she expressed her concern, saying that “although torture is not systematic, it occurs often enough for authorities to have to take it as a serious problem” and any person’s right to protection from “any abuse of power by either the Basque government or the Spanish one”. The three-party alliance made up of PNV, EA and IU praised Khan’s statements, despite the fact that shortly before, they had voted in parliament to prevent the Ertzaintza having to implement the recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Torture, which include ending the use of incommunicado detention. As to the period of incommunicado detention, Khan stated it “generates an environment that favours torture, or at any rate, increases the possibilities of torture happening and we have established this”. Finally, she stated that “eradicating torture is a matter of political will”.

Criticism of the Spanish government

The new Spanish Minister of the Interior (Home Office Secretary), López Aguilar, declared that “torture complaints are always false, not in most cases; in one hundred percent of the cases” in the presence of Irene Khan, and she answered by saying that “denial feeds the cycle of torture”. During the press conference where she explained the results of her visit, the AI representative stated that “credibility in human rights issues abroad will depend on how the issues are dealt with at home. There should be no imbalances between what is said abroad and what is done at home”. With regard to López Aguilar’s statements she said that “AI, the UN and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture have all documented serious claims again and again”.

TAT, the Basque organisation against torture also expressed their indignation about the Minister’s statements. According to TAT, “the statements are a clear message to the torturers: carry on regardless, we are here to cover up for you”. They remembered how those in government have always denied the existence of torture and tried to discredit those who have been brave enough to denounce it. They gave examples of people who have denounced having been victims of this terrible practice have been tried, whilst those charged with torture were promoted or given pardons.

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Terror and Indigenous Peoples

This is an old article, but it is worth to be posted here:

November 3, 2001

Terror and Indigenous Peoples War Without End
By David Price

When President Bush declared war on terrorism with his neo-McCarthyistic threat to the world that "you are either with us, or with the terrorists" he struck a chord with many frightened Americans, but other peoples around the world heard other important harmonics within this chord. For many of the world's indigenous peoples, these words brought terror and anticipation of new levels of outright oppression from the nation states that repressively surround and manage them.

In the time since this declaration the President has not clarified who these new terrorist enemies are, and the administration and its allies have since carefully avoided defining just who is and who isn't a terrorist-beyond this initial defining claim that they are those who are against "us". The administration understands that any behavioral definition of terrorism risks exposing the nonsense of behaviorally distinguishing between such categories of actors as terrorists, freedom fighters or military forces. The relativist adage that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter depends on who owns the newspaper that reports on their actions, seems to be forgotten by many on the American left who watched Washington play roughshod with the self determination of peoples of Central America in the 1980s. While a few pundits note the dangers of engaging in a war without any identifiable landmark of victory, there are equally real dangers to many minority populations around the world if the governments managing their native lands are given the green light to repress them as "terrorists".

As the United Nation's supports new anti-terrorist policies we find new levels of cooperation and agreement among member nations, though these talks occur with an explicit agreement that terrorism shall remain undefined. Concerns are being raised by international human rights groups and the German Foreign Minister that these policies will usher in high levels of State terrorism against minority populations, but for the most part these objections have been suppressed in the interest of a new found unity of purpose.

There are growing fears among anthropologists and others who work with indigenous peoples around the world that this new secret war on terrorism will have devastating effects on indigenous peoples' struggles for human rights and political recognition. Many fear that Secretary of State Powell-the-coalition-builder will purchase the cooperation and approval of nation leaders around the world by adopting policies in which the United States will not protest or intervene when these states suppress and annihilate their own ethnic minority populations. When police and military units use force against these groups their actions are "legitimate", while the use of these same tactics-even defensively-by indigenous groups, minority populations or separatist groups these actions become "terrorism".

As Powell signals Russia that the US can learn to see their bloody war in Chechnya as part of the global war on terrorism, this signal is welcomed by other world leaders wishing a free hand to deal with their own domestic indigenous troubles. Most of the world's nation states maintain hostile relations with one or more troublesome domestic groups contesting power relations; these hostile relations are frequently marked by violence and counter-violence. The idiom of power dictates that the violence of the state is legitimized as peace keeping, while that of the dispossessed becomes terrorism. But acts of "terrorism" are not limited to acts of violence. The range of non-violent actions that have in the past been defined as terrorism is disturbing and have included teaching native languages and engaging in outlawed religious or cultural ceremonies.

The world is filled with peoples who have legitimate, historical disputes with the nation states that rule them. Whether it is the Basques in Spain, the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Zapatistas in Mexico, Chechens in Russia, or hundreds of other groups of native peoples, there are contentious battles for power that will rapidly become even more lopsided if the current hysteria of ill-defined anti-terrorism is allowed to continue. The post-colonial wars of Africa smolder along ethnic lines in which minorities, and the lesser-armed are freely defined as terrorists. We need to demand that our government clarify what deals have been made with other governments regarding their treatment of natives peoples.

While many of the payoffs to client nations for joining the US-led coalition before the Gulf War were monetary (for example, the US forgave half of Egypt's crippling sixty billion dollar debt for symbolically joining the western coalition), there are signs that one currency of payoff in the war on "terrorism" will be the granting of a new degree of latitude for coalition members to oppress their troublesome internal resistance groups. Powell seems willing to encourage such potentially genocidal tit-for-tat arrangements if this will buy him a coalition willing to risk the wrath of this new yet-to-be-named enemy.

While the current military focus is on Afghanistan and the surrounding region, the Bush administration's suggestion that this could be a forty-year war on terrorism much like the Cold War threatens to bring harm to hundreds of indigenous groups around the world. Currently, many on the American left appear divided in their opposition and support for this new Afghani war, be this as it may, the left must resist the temptation to transfer this new found fear of "terrorism" into support for the oppression of indigenous peoples around the globe. CP

David Price is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington. He is the author of A World Atlas to Cultures.

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