Docs Show Canadian Mounties Deployed Snipers Against Indigenous Pipeline Protesters
Source: Jessica Corbett via CommonDreams In an exclusive report Friday that outraged human rights advocates worldwide, The Guardian revealed that Canadian police wanted snipers on standby for a January 2019 crackdown on Indigenous land defenders who were blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. The Guardian reported on official records — documents as well as audio and video content — reviewed by the newspaper related to the police “invasion” that led to 14 arrests: Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation show that commanders of Canada’s national...
Source: Jessica Corbett via CommonDreams In an exclusive report Friday that outraged human rights advocates worldwide, The Guardian revealed that Canadian police wanted snipers on standby for a January 2019 crackdown on Indigenous land defenders who were blocking construction of...
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