[IPSM] AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Open Letter re. Tyendinaga

[stef at tao.ca]

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Subject: [tmt_support] AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Open Letter re. Tyendinaga
From:    "TMT Support" <support.tmt at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, November 12, 2008 2:01 pm
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** please circulate widely **

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER:
Ontario's duty to ensure rights are upheld in police response to
Indigenous protests

November 12, 2008

Ontario's duty to ensure rights are upheld in police response to
Indigenous protests

Open letter to the Honourable Rick Bartolucci,
Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Dear Minister:

Amnesty International Canada is reiterating its call for the Province
of Ontario to immediately:

** Publicly affirm its support for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
Framework for Police Preparedness for Aboriginal Critical Incidents and
commit to ensuring that officers are held accountable for any breaches of
this Framework.

** Work with Indigenous peoples' organizations to establish a timetable
and process for an independent evaluation of the OPP Framework and
appropriate codification of the Framework in provincial laws and policies.

In light of very serious concerns that have been raised over the OPP
response to land rights protests at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on
June 28-29, 2007 and April 21-28, 2008, Amnesty International is also
urging the Province of Ontario to establish an independent, impartial
probe into OPP actions on those dates and to make the findings of such an
investigation public.

TO READ THE LETTER, GO TO:
http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=4498&c=Resource+Centre+News