{"id":38757,"date":"2014-01-27T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=38757"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:04","slug":"genocide-and-indigenous-rights-the-inuit-people-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/genocide-and-indigenous-rights-the-inuit-people-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide and Indigenous Rights: The Inuit People of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Nunavit: in 2014 most Canadians, individually, are strongly resistant to tuberculosis. Yet, on\u00a0<\/i><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nightslantern.ca\/2013bulletin.htm#8mayca\" >May 8, 2013<\/a><\/i><i>,\u00a0Night\u2019s Lantern\u00a0noted the tuberculosis rate for Inuit people as 186 times the rate for non-Aboriginal people. After James Anaya\u2019s\u00a0<\/i><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nightslantern.ca\/2013bulletin.htm#16octja\" >visit<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0in early October, 2013, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous rights found the Aboriginal peoples \u201cin crisis.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The causative problem remains: successive Canadian governments serve the interests of resource extraction corporations rather than the people of the land.<\/p>\n<p>In a territory where the suicide rate of Inuit is thirteen times the national average, 45 or more people committed suicide in 2013. Young men commit suicide at 40 times the rate of those in southern Canada. This happens when a culture is being destroyed.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/genocide-and-indigenous-rights-the-inuit-people-of-canada\/18jan2014%20site\/02.htm#ca\" >Ongoing genocide warning<\/a>. Refusing to successfully remedy a long standing emergency which has become a condition of Canadian society, the current government is in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/genocide-and-indigenous-rights-the-inuit-people-of-canada\/18jan2014%20site\/02.htm#ca\" >violation<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nightslantern.ca\/01.htm#convention\" >Convention on Genocide<\/a>,\u00a0Article II, c,:\u00a0Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.<\/p>\n<p><b>Partial sources online: \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAboriginal suicide a growing epidemic,\u201d Michael Lee, Jan. 13, 2014,\u00a0the Manitoban; \u201cCanada accused of hiding child abuse evidence,\u201d Kristina Jovanovski, Jan. 6, 2014,\u00a0Al-Jazeera; \u201cSuicide numbers in Nunavut in 2013 a record high,\u201d Jan. 10, 2014,\u00a0CBC News; Night\u2019s Lantern\u00a0 \u201cGenocide Warnings\u201d\u00a0 [access:&lt;http:\/\/nightslantern.ca\/02.htm &gt;].<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/genocide-and-indigenous-rights-the-inuit-people-of-canada\/5365485\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a territory where the suicide rate of Inuit is thirteen times the national average, young men commit suicide at 40 times the rate of those in southern Canada. This happens when a culture is being destroyed. Ongoing genocide warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}