søndag, oktober 09, 2005

Nyt fra Afrika: etnisk udrensning

Fra BBC:

Botswana's police commissioner said Tuesday that officers had fired rubber bullets to disperse a group of about 35 Bushmen protesting their eviction from ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. ...

The Kalahari Bushmen said their leader, Roy Sesana, was arrested and beaten by police. One protester was shot in the jaw and hospitalized, according to a tribal spokesman who did not want to be named for fear of police retaliation.

De sidste par uger har der været en del fokus på, at hundredvis af negre har forsøgt at storme tre meter høje pigtrådsbesatte hegn for at komme ind i Spanien. Samtidig er det gået hen over de flestes hoveder, at Bantu-ekspansionen lige så stille er ved at nå vejs ende i det sydlige afrika.

Lidt forklaring:

For omtrent to tusinde år siden, da Romerriget var på sit højeste, var bantufolkene en lille flok stammefolk i det sydøstlige Nigeria. Idag har de overtaget hele det centrale, sydlige og østlige Afrika, og har totalt fortrængt de oprindelige befolkninger. Pygmæerne er enten blevet trængt langt ind i centralafrikas jungler, eller er gået til grunde. Khoisan-folkene er - fra at have beboet hele syd- og østafrika - blevet trængt tilbage til nogle få reservater i Namibia og Botswanas goldeste ørkener.

Alt dette for at få plads til Bantuerne.

Dette er normalt kendt under navnet Bantu-ekspansionen, og har stået på i to tusinde år. De europæiske magter koloni-regimer stoppede ekspansionen midlertidigt fra 1700-tallet, men efter kolonierne fik deres selvstændighed igen i sidste århundrede er ekspansionen fortsat. Denne har for eksempel taget ovennævnte form, hvor det bare er et spørgsmål om at fængsle de, hvis jord og ressourcer der skal overtages, og skyde på dem med gummikugler hvis de ikke makker ret.

Når det drejer sig om pygmæerne har bantuerne været knapt så flinke. I Congo:

DR Congo pygmies 'exterminated'

The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate "a campaign of extermination" against pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An international human rights group, says it is presenting a dossier to the ICC in The Hague on Tuesday containing compelling witness statements.

Minority Rights Group International say they have gathered evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape. ...

However, many Congolese regard them as "subhuman" with some believing their flesh can confer magical powers.

Mere om Congo her. I Burundi:

Pygmies flee after Burundi poll

Some 600 pygmies, or Twa, have fled Burundi for neighbouring Rwanda to escape persecution and hunger, officials say.

Twa MP Liberata Nichayenzi said the majority had fled because of intimidation by ethnic Hutus.

Man vil huske, det også var hutuer, der stod bag folkemordet på Tutsierne i Rwanda. I Sydafrika er midlerne der bliver brugt til at overtage andre folks ressourcer en blanding af blød pression og en decideret campagne af mord og tortur. Et eksempel på det første:

The South African government has criticised diamond firm De Beers for appointing a "lily-white" male boss. ...

Firms are being urged to promote and hire more black employees to redress damage done by the apartheid regime.

The government is implementing rules and legislation that are designed to spread ownership of South African firms to the black majority.


Et eksempel på det sidste, en BBC-historie fra 2003:

On the side of a motorway in northern South Africa, white couples held hands with their heads bowed, as a quiet prayer was uttered for 1,500 white farmers who have been murdered since apartheid ended in 1992.

The murders, often horrific in their brutality, are on the increase, according to a report by South Africa's Human Rights Commission.

Aatie Vermaak, a third generation white farmer, drove down a long dirt road on his farm showing us where he had been attacked in January.

Black assailants had followed him, and when he stopped his car they shot him the stomach.
Mr Vermaak was intensive care for a month, his gall bladder had to be removed, his liver was in pieces, and he nearly died.

"They stole nothing. They just shouted kill the dog, kill the dog," he said.

'Kill the farmer'

Like many white farmers who have suffered similar attacks Mr Vermaak thinks the attack was racist.

His farm is near the town of Polokwane, where just a year ago thousands of black South Africans gathered for the funeral of a prominent ANC activist.

"Kill the Boer! Kill the Farmer," they chanted in unison to the beat of a warlike dance.

Året efter var antallet af dræbte hvide farmere kommet op på 1700. Det skal ses i sammenhæng med, at antallet af hvide farme - i hvert fald før mordene begyndte at drive farmerne væk - lå på godt 40.000. Flugten af hvide farmere har sat den sydafrikanske regering i stand til at omfordele billig landbrugsjord uden, som Mugabe i Zimbabwe, at ty til statssponsorerede racemord.

Men slutresultatet er der ikke megen forskel på.

Henrik