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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
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An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its #ancestral #homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.

An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation's claim over Pë'këya, a biodiverse territory in northeast Ecuador along the border with Peru, according to a court ruling provided to CNN by Amazon Frontline, a nonprofit organization working with indigenous people to defend their land rights.

The #Siekopai were #displaced during the #Peru- #Ecuador #war in the 1940s.

Last September, the #community, which has only about 800 members, filed a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state, claiming it was violating their right to ancestral property, Amazon Frontline said.

In its ruling on Friday, the Provincial Court of Sucumbios gave Ecuador's Ministry of Environment 45 days to deliver a property title to the Siekopai people for more than 104,000 acres of land, court documents show.

Elias Piyahuaje, President of the Siekopai Nation of Ecuador, said:
"This is a historic moment for the Siekopai Nation. The land of Pë'këya has always been and will always be ours. For over 80 years, we have been fighting to get our land back."
Amazon Frontline said:
"The ruling will mark the first time that the Ecuadorian government delivers a land title to an indigenous community whose ancestral territory is found in a protected area. It sets an invaluable precedent for all indigenous peoples fighting to recover their lands across Latin America and the world."
Piyahuaje said:
"We are fighting for the preservation of our culture on this planet. Without this territory, we cannot exist as Siekopai people."
https://www.sott.net/article/486561-Indigenous-community-in-Ecuador-wins-legal-fight-to-reclaim-ancestral-land-after-more-than-80-years

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yew@diasp.eu
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one of my bestestest frens sent me some precious words; they touch my soul like nothing since long. as I have been incarnated in Russia at least one time (I cry over it to not be a Russian soul). and only one who knows the feeling to be Russian or has at least a "Russian" soul can understand this fact... anyways, here's the text:

The West doesn’t understand the Russian conception of Motherland.

We cannot be defeated. Because we have a difference between the Motherland and the state, which the West will not understand.

The Russian word «Родина» (that is translated here as Motherland) is associated with the words “genus”, “kin”, “people” (all containing the Russian root «род»). The Motherland is what we love. But the state…we have problems with the state all the time.

The state has been mocking the Motherland for many years. But when trouble comes, the Motherland forgives the state and stands up for it.

Therefore, the enemy cannot defeat us: he attacks the state, but the response comes from the Motherland. He doesn’t know that our Motherland is on duty around the corner.

Hitler learned all the roads of our country from maps. He came – and the Motherland had no roads.

Napoleon decided to liberate the Russian state from serfdom. Did you ask the Motherland? The Motherland’s peasants drove him back to Paris.

We and the West will never understand each other, because we feel the world differently.

—Mikhail Zadornov

#Russia #motherland #homeland #understanding #west #Heimat #quote #text

Mikhail Zadornov, Comic Who Skewered Soviet Rule And Railed Against The West, Dies At 69

Mikhail Zadornov, a stand-up comedian who got hearty laughs skewering the absurdities of life under Soviet rule and later targeted Washington, the West, and non-Russian ethnic groups, has died at the age of 69.

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steelnomad@diasp.org
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The #European powers dealt with the Jewish #refugee #crisis by shipping #victims of the #Holocaust to the #MiddleEast.
So, while leading #Zionists understood that they had to uproot and displace #Arabs to establish a #homeland, they were also acutely aware that they were not wanted in the countries from which they had fled or been expelled.
The Zionists and their supporters may have mouthed slogans such as “a land without a people for a people without a land” in speaking of #Palestine, but, as the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, European powers were attempting to deal with the crime carried out against Jews in #Europe by committing another crime, one against #Palestinians.
It was a recipe for endless #conflict, especially since giving the Palestinians under #occupation full democratic rights would risk loss of control of #Israel by the Jews.

#Palestinian #freedom #HumanRights

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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

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