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LAND LAWS AND THE ISSUE OF LAND OWNERSHIP
LAND LAWS AND THE ISSUE OF LAND OWNERSHIP (RIGHT) IS DEFINITELY a global issue for indigenous people.
The few success stories generally arise from a determination within communities to gain land titles, increased public awareness both at the national level as well as internationally and get the crucial exposure to other groups involved in similar struggles.
Some of the miss represented solutions to similar problems and given media coverage as solved but in the actual sense, far from it.
The establishment of the Indian protection service (s.p.i), which was a government agency, commissioned to protect the Indian lives in the amazon. As a result of the deculturing and destruction through disease and genocide (supported and contradicted by the constitutions) employed (perpetrated by the frontiers of development invading the lands used by the indigenous people, Hiring of professional ways tactics) of killing the people.
The same (s.p.i) like most of the government supported organizations started to see into the well-being of the maasai (indigenous) was found guilty of gross abuse of the people they were meant to protect.
In 1967 an investigation carried found officials guilty of corruption amongst officials, revealing shocking testimonies of undesired ,cruelty, ranging from massacre of whole tribes to child slavery and further indictments included the deliberate introduction of infectious diseases and poison in the form of "gifts" of sugar laced with arsenic, Evidence implicated (s.p.i) workers in murders. Sexual perversions, embezzlement of funds, robbery and fraudulent sale of Indian lands (same as what the councils are currently doing in Kenya).
The above events led to the formation of the FUNAI, which still exists to this date. In this we have seen similar problems arising, one official (Antonio cotrin) one of brazils most dedicated Indian agents, resigned from FUNAI announcing that he could not continue and was tired of being a grave digger of the Indians "I do not intend to contribute to enrichment of economic groups at the expense/cost of the extinction of the "primitive" cultures, the denunciation of pacification techniques employed by FUNAI agents served as a turning point, publicizing what contrim claimed were orchestrated and brutal tactics against all recently contacted tribes during that time.
The question we ask is how genuine are we in up holding human rights? From our historical backgrounds most of the governments concerned harbor hidden agendas and operate back-stage and work as spies for what we are against, thus defeating the whole purpose of our organisations(the only unifying body that we were hopeful of but now going on a different direction being led by the whims of few Super war powers.