Police disrupt peasant gathering in Lombok

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Published on Tuesday, 14 February 2006 07:00

The violence to peasant again happened in Lombok, Indonesia. Thousands of peasant member of FSPI (Federation of Indonesia Peasant Union) on 18 September were gathering in their farm land to join the general meeting of peasant to commemorate the national peasant days. The peasant were happy thought that the police come to secure their activities. But in just a few a momment the fire their gun to peasant essembled. 

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Report: Police open fire on peasants in Lombok, Indonesia

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Published on Tuesday, 14 February 2006 07:00

On the morning of September 18, 2005, at approximately 9:00AM, Indonesian police forces violently dispersed a peaceful gathering of about 1000 peasants in Tanah Awuk village in central Lombok, Indonesia. The peasants had gathered together to launch a week-long series of activities to commemorate Indonesia's National Peasants' Day on September 24th. More than 300 invited guests, including students, members of Serikat Tani NTB (the local peasants' union) and peasant farmers from 12 other provinces were expected at the meeting. Also invited to this meeting was an international delegation composed of peasant leaders from La Via Campesina, human rights specialists, and researchers from the Land Research Action Network (LRAN), who were in Lombok to attend a National Symposium on Agrarian Reform organized by the Indonesian Federation of Peasant Unions (FSPI).

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10 years of WTO is enough!

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On April 17, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, the members of Via Campesina will organize actions against neoliberalism all over the world. Peasants, small farmers, rural women, indigenous communities, and landless people will work together with our alliances from environmental, health, solidarity and other grassroots organizations to inform the public about the drastic consequences of neo-liberalism. The disastrous results of 10 years of a WTO farm and trade policy based on export agriculture clearly demonstrate that it is a proven failure. This neo-liberal policy has made people more dependent of imports and has benefited the agro-industry. Many examples from numerous countries support this claim. A 5.5% growth in Latin-America’s economy has not led to less poverty in the region. For example, Brazil is further impoverished as it increases exports to try to pay off its external debt. More power and money are concentrated in fewer hands. Multinational companies seem to be more important to the WTO than the people of the world.

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Violations of peasants rights during the rehabilitation of tsunami

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Via Campesina releases its second annual report on Violation of Peasants rights during the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission

(Geneva) La Via Campesina addresses to the public in Geneva at the occasion of the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission to highlight the gravity of the problems according to the human rights violations that peasants are facing world wide. Since 2004 Via Campesina is releasing an annual report on violations of peasant’s rights in different parts of the world highlighting important cases and typical forms of violations on peasants’ human rights.

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