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[Ngoblog.fi] NGO and Civil Society Blog: Indigenous Peoples and Rights Archives: In an affidavit to the Supreme Court of India on 21 June, 2004, the Government of India made a very significant admission that 'the historical injustice done to the tribal forest dwellers through non-recognition of their traditional rights must be finally rectified'. This marked a historic departure from the colonial perspective that has characterised state regulations of forests, which regards forests as preserves of nature that necessarily should ideally be devoid of human habitation;

 [Muse.jhu.edu] Karin von Strokirch - The Region in Review: International Issues ...: The omission was ill advised in view of West Papua's historical association .of conflict relating to internal displacement and migration, land rights, .

 [Kuro5hin.org] Supporting Genocide In West Papua || kuro5hin.org: More than 100,000 West Papuans, or 10% of the population, have been killed, whilst an illegal "transmigration" programme, supported by the World Bank, has resulted in over 750,000 Indonesians, many subsidised, re-settling in West Papua, where they now constitute around 40% of the population, and are the majority in the capital city and many other urban locations. Freeport-McMoRan has been given virtual free rein to resettle indigenous tribes that get in the way of its mining activities - the highland Amungme tribe, in particular, has suffered, with their displacement to the lowlands causing many to die of malaria.

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