ANOTHER "I LOVE INDIANS" SPEECH BY GUSTAFSEN WAR CRIMINAL DOSANJH
Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty (S.I.S.I.S.)
Friday, November 27, 1998No copyright - distribute freely
The man largely responsible for leading the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history against a small group of Shuswap traditionalists has made a habit lately of showing up at various gatherings talking about native rights. Ujjal Dosanjh, BC's Attorney General and Human Rights Minister, led the intense government and media demonization of theTs'Peten Defenders, later revealed in police disclosures to have been a "smear and disinformation campaign" by the police. In addition, Dosanjh, throughhis effective control of human rights monitoring agencies in BC over whichhe is Minister, also ensured the silence and complicity of most domesticcritics
of the summer 1995 assault against the Ts'peten Sundance camp.
The BC NDP Government is steadfastly refusing to entertain a public
inquiry into the Gustafsen matter. This is despite calls from the
Green Group of the European Parliament, Ex-US Attorney-General Ramsey
Clark, Student organizations, Labor Unions, and native organizations like the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with Native Peoples (CASNP) and the Assembly of First Nations, which have all passed resolutions demanding a public inquiry.
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CANADA'S RIGHTS RECORD UNDER MICROSCOPE
Canadian Press, November 28, 1998 by James Stevenson (CP)
   EDMONTON (CP) - As famous activists from around the world gather for an international human rights conference, Canadas own record is under a spotlight. Shrouded in the grey slush of a Canadian November,
Edmonton will spend the next two days playing host to South Africas
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, exiled Nigerian Owens Wiwa and others.
The conference is tied to the 50th anniversary of the universal
declaration of human rights.
But while Canada puts on its Sunday best for the movers and shakersof
the human rights movement, it is attracting criticism from home-grown
delegates.
  "On one level you could say we have an admirable track record," says
   Mary Jo Leddy, director of Toronto's Romero House for Refugees.
   "And yet if you look at the history of this country, whenever there
   has been a time of social or economic stress, we have been
   terrifyingly comfortable with suspending the human rights of whole
   groups of people."
   Examples include the treatment of Japanese Canadians in the Second
   World War and the use of the War Measures Act in 1970, says Leddy.
   More recently, police used pepper spray on a group of student
   demonstrators at an economic summit in Vancouver last year.
   British Columbias Attorney General, Ujjal Dosanjh, is the only
   provincial minister invited to the conference.
"I think its appropriate for students and others to be able to     stand up and say what they want their political leaders...to keep human rights in the forefront," said Dosanjh, who wouldn't comment   specifically on the Asia Pacific Economic Conference incident.   Dosanjh, an Indian immigrant, said rights of Canadian minorities and  aboriginal groups have often been taken away.
   "Here we have a country that's been judged to be the best country  to live in by the UN, and we have aboriginal people living in ThirdWorld
conditions and worse - in the midst of affluence."
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                       THE REAL UJJAL DOSANJH
"I must therefore ask that you requisition the following...Four (4) .50
calibre McMillan Sniper Rifles, complete with 4 x 40 Leupold Scopes,
accessories and ammunition."
   - Ujjal Dosanjh to then Solicitor General Herb Gray Sept.15, 1995

"I hereby request the following additional resources from the Canadian
Armed Forces, to be assigned immediately to the Provincial PoliceService:
Five Canadian Forces armoured personnel carriers with military driversand
commander."   - Dosanjh to Herb Gray, September 12, 1995

"The state retains the inherent right to use force."
   - Dosanjh, 'The Province', August 28, 1995

"...there shall be no alien intervention in the affairs of the state."
   - Dosanjh, re: international human rights intervention, 'VancouverSun',
     Sept. 15, 1995 Page A1

"Finally, the buck stops here, Dosanjh said, taking ultimateresponsibility
for what happens at Gustafsen Lake."   - 'Vancouver Sun', Aug. 29, 1995

"they wanted an independent forum for the determination of rights. He's
the Attorney General. Doesn't he believe in rights?...he wanted topunishthem."
   - Ramsey Clark re: Dosanjh's actions against the Ts'Peten Defenders,
     in interview October 1997

"The current actions of the BC government and the RCMP toward theTs'peten
Defenders, as well as the negligence of the Canadian national government
to intervene and put a halt to these actions, unambiguously qualify asgenocide."
   - KOLA (Belgium), human rights organization, letter to PrimeMinister April
     1997"The NDP tried to kill Indians to win votes."
   - imprisoned Shuswap elder Wolverine, 1996

"surrender of rebels at Gustafsen Lake could propel BC into a fall
election, political analysts said Sunday...NDP support has strengthened
over the summer, a phenomenon analysts say shows voters approve of theway
the government of Premier Mike Harcourt has handled Native Indian
militants...One high placed government source predicted Harcourt willcall
an election before next week."   - 'Vancouver Sun', September 18, 1995 Page A3

"Ujjal Dosanjh may well become the first non-white Premier of BC."
   - Right-wing columnist Vaughn Palmer on Gustafsen, Sept 1995
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WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO GUSTAFSEN LAKE & THE ACTIONS OF THEAG-BC!
More information:    http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/GustLake/support.html
    http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/gustmain.html
Letters of protest to government, & solidarity with the Ts'PetenDefenders:
    Prime Minister Jean Chretien: 
    BC NDP Premier Glen Clark: 
    cc: SISIS 
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