Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 18, 2008

Mohawk Nation News: Trick or Jay Treaty?

TRICK OR JAY TREATY? CANADA BORDER ASSAULTS REMIND INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF OLD INDIAN STORY

Mohawk Nation News
Oct. 17, 2008. The hundreds of Mohawk women who have been harassed, assaulted, threatened, abused, raped, almost killed and “disappeared” at the Cornwall Ontario border crossing are getting to the point where they must challenge the Canadian Border Services Agency CBSA goons. This check point has been illegally put right in the middle of the Mohawk community of Akwesasne disrupting the normal flow of life, forcing people to submit to questioning and examinations by officials of a foreign state whose rule we never consented to. There is no way the CBSA can be confused with honorable defenders of peace loving people against “terrorism." Like common criminals the goons have become terrorists themselves. They behave worse than street gangs. They are part of a scheme designed to make us defenseless. Their training is created to take advantage of their primitive instincts and emotions. It’s the “Abu Graib” syndrome where soldiers tortured, maimed and killed thousands of innocent Iraqis. Read article

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