And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 03:37:11 +0000 >From: "Ian Zabarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Indigenous Environmental Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: WSNC Response to US Nuclear Weapon Related Test >Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:31:23 -0700 >FYI > >Ian > > > > > Western Shoshone National Council > P.O. Box 210 > Indian Springs, NV 89018-0210 > NEWE SOGOBIA > > PRESS RELEASE > Contact: Chief Raymond Yowell > Telephone: 1-775-744-4381 > >Western Shoshone Government Denounces Sub-Critical Nuclear Test > >The Western Shoshone National Council denounces the sub-critical nuclear >weapons related test conducted by the US on Thursday, September 30, 1999. >"The sub-critical nuclear weapons related test is part of the ongoing human >rights crisis adversely affecting the Western Shoshone Nation." stated >National Council Representative John Wells. "The presence of ongoing nuclear >weapons research and design laboratories together with the associated >testing of nuclear materials are deliberate acts of trespass which have >resulted in the death of untold numbers of Western Shoshone and American >citizens." > >The Western Shoshone Nation has an established formal legal relationship >with the US manifest through the Treaty of Ruby Valley, 1863. The Western >Shoshone Nation and the US were well aware of their status as sovereign >nations with all of the legal implications of entering into a contractual >relationship. Those facts remain true today and are the basis for the >National Council efforts to protect their territorial integrity by >intervention in the case, US v. Nye County currently before the US 9th >Circuit Court of Appeals. > >The DOE always assures the public of the need for and safety of these >nuclear weapons related tests to protect American freedoms. However, the >National Council realizes that alterations of the environment are producing >serious negative consequences for people today and far into the future. > >The National Council believes that American freedom and democracy are at >risk by the continued acts of destruction carried out by the DOE. "The US >is defending us to death...we must contend with the genetic dangers, >threatening not only the Western Shoshone people, but the entire human >species," commented Ian Zabarte, Assistant to the Chief. "The DOE is >violating the solemn obligations pledged by the US in the Treaty of Ruby >Valley by conducting this test...it is the US Constitution and the rights of >freedom loving people everywhere which are trampled by the very persons >sworn to uphold the those laws." > >The National Council has the responsibility and duty to protect the >citizens of the >Western Shoshone Nation. In discharging this responsibility, the National >Council passed Resolution 01-WSNC-95 creating a Nuclear-Free Zone of Western >Shoshone Territory. This regulation, intent upon protecting the Western >Shoshone people, is based on the National Council focusing on the root cause >of the present impairment of rights, physical injury, death, and adverse >health effects affecting the Western Shoshone people - illegal US nuclear >weapons testing! > >The DOE created a process called "cultural triage" in clearing Western >Shoshone artifacts and burials from nuclear weapons sites within Western >Shoshone Territory. The process, "A forced choice situation in which an >ethnic group is faced with the decision to rank in importance equally valued >cultural resources that could be affected by a proposed development," is an >American brand of "ethnic cleansing." This process of ranking and sorting >according to quality amounts to genocide. The US possesses no right or >authority to devalue, dissolve, destroy or impair the social or cultural >identity or right of the Western Shoshone people to any part of Western >Shoshone Territory. The US cannot justify the perpetration of this ongoing >crime against humanity or the collective pain, suffering and loss of the >Western Shoshone Nation for the US purposes of conducting nuclear weapons >related testing. Nuclear testing kills real people! >(End) > Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
