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OGIEK
Copyright © 2004, yoshi shimizu
Kihooko kiunaga uta mugeete
- The Truth is Stronger than Weapons !
Muacha mila ni mtumwa - Once
you forget your culture you become a slave !
The Ogiek,
an indigenous people living mainly in
Kenya's Mau and Mt.Elgon Forests, are fighting to remain in
their ancestral homeland. The former government tried to force
them out of the forests, allegedly to protect the environment. But
the Ogiek pose not only no environmental threat, but are actually
the guardians of these forests since time immemorial.
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Click here to visit the Ogiek
PHOTO GALLERY
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FOREST DESTRUCTION IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW !
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- see it for yourself -
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A historical
moment:
Prof. Yash Pal Ghai
, Chairman of The Constitution of Kenya Review Commission ,
received Ogiek elders and their statements concerning
constitutional changes . That was the first time that the
postcolonial Kenya Government officially recognized the existence
of the Ogiek people and granted them to be heared - the most
important moment in the last decades on the way of the Ogiek
People out of the oppression .
THE CASE FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF
KENYA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
THE WORK ON THE DRAFT
CONSTITUTION OF KENYA :
SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO THE OGIEK
CONSTITUTION-MEMO BY THE SENGWER OF KENYA
Finally!
Unilateral Recognition by Kenya Government:
Ogiek and Sengwer are respected Indigenous Peoples
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COMPARE THE
CONSTITUTION DRAFTS
a)
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA 2002
(PDF)
b)
DRAFT CONSTITUTION - BOMA'S DRAFT
(PDF)
c)
DRAFT CONSTITUTION - KIBAKI / WAKO - DRAFT
(PDF)
A MESSAGE TO THE
"DEVELOPERS" IN KENYA AND ELSEWHERE:
"If only someone would once tell these people whom the Almighty
has for- saken that everything is so imperfect among them only
because they leave nothing pure uncorrupted, nothing sacred
untouched by their coarse hands, that nothing strives among them
because they do not respect the root of all thrieving, divine
Nature, that life with them is stale and burdened with cares and
and full of cold, silent discord, because they scorn the Genius,
which brings power and nobility into human endeavor and serenity
into suffering, and love and brotherhood to towns and houses. And
that too is why they are so afraid of death and, for the sake of
their molluscan existance, bear every indignity, for they know
nothing higher than the bungling job that they have made of things."
Friedrich Hoelderin in the year 1797
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The world's most
primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor.
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a
relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation
between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the
invention of civilization.
Marshall Sahlins -
Anthropologist
(quoted in "BEYOND CIVILIZATION - Humanity's Next Great
Adventure")
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The right to be
let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William O. Douglas
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"However much we
may detest admitting it, the fact remains that there would be no
exploitation if people refused to obey the exploiter. But self
comes in and we hug the chains that bind us. This must cease."
Mohandas Gandhi
UHURU!
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