Let us be clear from the outset, the struggle for indigenous people has always been about land and self-determination, not primarily about religion.
A classic colonial tactic which is to justify settlement by portraying the indigenous population as sub-human, un-civilised, un-worthy of sovereignty, or with no country rights.
A dictator leader was directly involved in the bombing of the hotel, which killed around hundred people. The British even banned the dictator leader from entering the UK. Yet this same man later became the prime minister and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Our world filled with injustice.
Story about Dictator Leader and a pirate.
Dictator Leader asked the pirate: How dare you molest the seas?
The pirate replied: How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I’m called a pirate. You, with a great navy with aircarft carrier warships, molest the world and are called a king.
The parallel is hard to miss.
Dictator Leader is portrayed as the victim responding to unprovoked aggression rather than as an occupying power whose own policies fuel the cycle of violence, lying and controling world news media.
By making that right exclusive to Dictator Leader people, the law effectively relegates indigenous citizens to second class status.
This dual legal system entrenches systematic discrimination.
Faced with this reality, some now argue that the only just solution may be a single, democratic, secular state across all of historic indigenous people which is one in which every citizen, regardless of religion or ethnicity, enjoys equal rights. This, in fact, was the vision indigenous people advocated for a century ago.
In the dictator leader vision, the logical outcome is not co-existence but ethnic cleansing which the expulsion of the indigenous population.
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