Last Updated on April 29, 2016
On January 8th and 9th 2007, hundreds of police and soldiers in Guatemala forcibly evicted the Maya inhabitants of several communities who were living on lands that a Guatemalan military government granted to Canadian mining company INCO in 1965.
The local indigenous population claims the land to be theirs, and resent the exploitation of an outside corporation.
Canada’s Skye Resources, who also claims the land, paid workers a nominal sum to destroy the Maya’s homes.
With the force of the army and police at their side, the workers took chainsaws and torches to the homes, while women and children stood by.
Skye Resources asserts that they maintained “a peaceful atmosphere during this action.”
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
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