Op-Ed: UN report on Indigenous Peoples- 370 million living in hell

The UN report The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is a tale of horror. 370 million people, more than the population of the United States, are in a state of what could only be called “situational genocide”.

The UN occasionally does do its job properly, and this report is a case in point. The statistics alone are grim enough: In the US, Native Americans are 600 times more likely to get TB, and 62% more likely to commit suicide. Australian Aboriginals have the worst life expectancy of any group in the world. The majority of indigenous people make up one third of the world’s poorest people. 50 per cent of indigenous adults, globally, have Type 2 diabetes. This is a sample of the general tone of the report, from the UN press release:

Indigenous peoples experience disproportionately high levels of maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition, cardiovascular illnesses, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB), while suicide rates, particularly among youth, are considerably higher in many countries, for example up to 11 times the national average for the Inuit in Canada. The Inuit TB rate is over 150 times higher.

Civil rights are another major issue. Indigenous people are the most oppressed, suffering all forms of abuse, including torture, and “even” death, according to the UN. Around the world, the most displaced people on Earth are indigenous. Dispossession is common, perhaps more so than the colonial era. The effects of generations of empty concepts in relation to the rights of indigenous people, like the 19th century, are showing their true colors. This is the 21st century, and things are now much worse. This is extermination by greed and hypocrisy, on a scale worthy of Wall Street’s highly paid murder of the US economy. The saintly Liberals and Conservatives have rarely if ever mentioned the indigenous situations in the West. 5 per cent of the world’s population is being destroyed, and none of these vermin-ideology worshipping hypocrites can even be bothered to say a word. In terms of human rights, you could simply draw a swastika to cover the actual policies since the colonial era. In Australia, which likes to portray itself as a progressive country, however absurdly, the new budget allocation of $1 billion has to be weighed against the fact that there are 600,000 Aboriginals in Australia. That $10.60 is going to have to go a long way. Presumably a packet of Band Aids, a packet of aspirin, and maybe the remaining $4 could act as a down payment on a shovel. The Aboriginals are a good example of the total failure of comprehension of Western culture in terms of indigenous peoples. We’ve learned that: 1. We still don’t have a clue regarding the Aboriginal realities, even when we’re actually trying to help. 2. Aboriginals are less than thrilled about any situation which requires them to have to trust a system which has done nothing good for them for over 200 years. 3. Aboriginals manage themselves and their issues better than others. 4. Their traditional social structures work far more efficiently than ours in daily life. 5. They respect their own cultural systems far more than those of the West. (Must be some reason for that… Imagine anyone not revering the collection of money grubbing cockroach droppings we’re calling a civilization…) The UN might want to consider that as a working model for concepts about turning the indigenous world into something other than a global concentration camp.