Thank you
regards Sen Kay Denman
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> Subject: [recoznet2] Here is the translation of the press release in
> German
>
> Press release on reconciliation
>
> By Society for Threatened Peoples
>
> 26.5.2000
>
> Sorry, Mr. Howard
> Society for Threatened Peoples criticises Australia's unwillingness to
> deal with the past
>
>
>
> About 100 days before the Olympic Games start in Sydney, the Australian
> government's policies towards Aborigines are in for a severe
> test. On Saturday 27 May a "Declaration on Reconciliation" between the
> indigenous people and descendants of the immigrants will be
> presented to the public. The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard,
> will take part in the dance ceremony (Corroboree) at the Sydney
> Opera House. But there is more likely to be a storm than harmony and
> happy dance. Leading Aboriginal representatives have indicated
> they will not attend the event.
>
>
>
> "Compared to the nine years of negotiations about the Reconciliation
> Declaration and the many crimes perpetrated against the
> Aborigines, a shamefully meagre result has come out," declared the head
> of the Indigenes Desk of the Society for Threatened Peoples
> (GfbV), Dr. Theodor Rathgeber. "There can be no talk of a new social
> contract between the white and indigenous population." The
> GfbV criticised that not even a symbolic word of regret about the
> genocide of the past would pass Howard's lips. But the human rights
> organisation was not surprised, seeing that the Howard government had
> for years systematically destroyed Aboriginal rights. The
> government had in 1998 changed the fundamental law on land rights and
> for that reason had even been criticised in March by the
> Geneva-based Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
> CERD. In the same year the government decided no longer to
> see the aim of its policy towards Aborigines in their self-empowerment,
> but merely in self-management, arguing it did not want to create
> the impression of creating a separate indigenous state. "The same
> government accuses the Aborigines at every opportunity to be stuck on
> the welfare drip feed while at the same time systematically cutting away
> at all possibilities of actually doing that," said Rathgeber. Given
> so much deliberate discrimination and fury on the part of the
> Aborigines, it would be better to have peace talks, especially with view
> to
> the Olympics beginning in September.
>
>
> Contact: Dr. Theodor Rathgeber, #49-551-4990618 or #49-0171-4054959
>
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> Society for Threatened Peoples
> Dptm. Indigenous Peoples
> P.O. Box 2024; D- 37010 Goettingen, Germany
> ph. +49-(0)551-4990618; fax +49-(0)551-58028
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: www.gfbv.de
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