Canada

Mohawks’ open letter decries
army actions at Kanesatake

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militarily and politically on behalf of you,
the Canadian public.

During the last ten days the military has
enaged in numerous violations of national
and intemational law. These include:

¢ Denying us access to doctors and
‘medicine.

¢ Denying us access to winter clothing
and other necessities of life.

¢ Denying us access to sufficient amounts
of food.

e Interfering with all of our communica-
tions, including those of our spiritual ad-
visors, families, political leaders, lawyers,
the international community and in fact,
other Canadian elected officials.

e Preventing journalists from behind the

barbed wire from telling the world what is

going on inside.

These violations are nothing new to this
crisis. The Canadian government still main-
tains some degree of control over the army
and Surete de Quebec, yet these same rights
are regularly violated. So much so that the
national and international agreements that
were signed on Aug. 12, and 14, 1990, be-
tween our government and yours, which
guaranteed all those rights presently denied.

_ Those agreements were broken by
Canada and Quebec as witnessed by the
international observers who were selected
by your own government.

Your government promised that when
the Mercier bridge was opened and all bar-
ticades at Kahnawake and Kanahsatake

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reality is that the Arms Race continues
although basic human needs are not met.
Just this year the Canadian government
increased an outdated cold war budget for

were removed, discussions regarding our
long term grievances would begin. They
lied! Our people opened the roads and
cleared the bridge, yet no discussions are
underway.

Your army promised that once the roads
were opened and the bridge was cleared at

Your government has
turned over the voice of
its people to soldiers.
Do you wonder why we
cannot trust Prime
Minister Mulroney or
Premier Bourassa?

Kahnawake they would move no further on
our territory. They lied! Since that time they
have violated our Sacred Longhouse, beaten
our women, urinated on our children, oc-
cupied our entire territory and last night fired
weapons and tear gas, and beat unarmed
people.

Your government told the European par-
liament, (who strongly denounced your
leaderships’ role in this crisis), that they are

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meeting with our representatives to end this
stalemate. Once again they have lied. No
such meetings have occurred.

Simply put, your government has tumed
over the voice of its people to soldiers, who
are unaccountable to anyone. Do you
wonder why we cannot believe or trust
Prime Minister Mulroney or Premier
Bourassa?

Make no mistake about it, we behind the
barbed wire are willing to lay down our
weapons and to enter into a trusteeship as the
process to resolve our long term complaints
is initiated. We have never demanded any-
thing, nor do we now, before we take this
first step.

All that we ask is for a process and not
promises. All that we have ever received is
promises and not action. This process, how-
ever, must begin at the same time as this
disengagement.

Today we tumed over to the media a
complete set of all of our recent communica-
tions to and from the military. We ask you,
the Canadian public to judge, who in this
crisis has good faith and who does not. Who
seeked a peaceful resolution and who is
preventing it.

The position of the government of
Quebec and Canada leaves us no choice. We
will no longer discuss political problems
with the military who claim to be powerless
to address them, yet deny us access to our
civilian leadership.

We urge Canadians from all walks of life
to demand of your leadership a return to its
sanity..We urge Canadians from all walks of
life to demand of your leadership to assume
its responsibility, not just to us, but also to
you, to negotiate a peaceful settlement to

We will not again speak with the military.
This is the way of a totalitarian regime,
where soldiers control the people and not the
other way around.

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