[IPSM] Fwd: OPEN LETTER TO THE RCMP: Indigenous people refuse to accept RCMP violence

[mandeep]

>    International Indigenous Youth Conference
> Secretariat
> PO Box 2042 Station Main Terminal,
> Vancouver, BC  604-639-9039 <iiyc at resist.ca>,
> 
>  OPEN LETTER TO THE RCMP
> *RCMP Headquarters
> 1200 Vanier Parkway
> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
> 
> *
> From local Indigenous groups active on Coast Salish
> Territory
> 
> July 5, 2007
> 
>  We greatly condemn the RCMP's vicious and sinister
> use of violence against
> a six-month-old baby in  the Sechelt community in
> BC. While the baby's face
> and scalp was severely burned from the RCMP's   use
> of pepper spray on him,
> the RCMP chose to claim that they were justified in
> the violence.
> 
> There is absolutely no justification in the
> deliberate administration of
> violence and bodily harm against a small baby.
> Further we also condemn the
> use of aggression the RCMP used against the Sechelt
> community members who
> were celebrating a youth soccer championship
> victory. It is clear in this
> case that the RCMP wanted to cause trouble and
> attacked members of the
> community, many whom were young people and moms,
> arbitrarily.
> 
>  The situation points to the extremes the RCMP will
> go to attempt to assert
> irrational and arbitrary powers in our Indigenous
> communities. It is an
> example of why we need to stop depending on and
> giving legitimacy to racist,
> cruel and violent state oppressors like the RCMP. We
> stand in solidarity
> with the Sechelt people and support whatever actions
> they wish to take
> against the RCMP and in their community. We assert
> that the guilty RCMP
> officers and cohorts, who violently attacked a
> Sechelt baby, and other
> members of the community, should be removed from the
> force immediately. In
> addition, we feel that the RCMP should be banned
> from Indigenous communities
> permanently given the longitude of their abuses
> against our children, youth,
> Elders, women, and men.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> The International Indigenous Youth Conference
> Secretariat
> Redwire Native Youth Media
> The Indigenous Action Movement
> 
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> 
> We are watching you
> 



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