Aché Sue Paraguay’s Government over Historic Genocide
by Survival International / July 3rd, 2014
The survivors of a South American tribe which was decimated during the 1950s and 60s are taking Paraguay’s government to court over the genocide they suffered.
The case of the hunter-gatherer Aché tribe, who roamed the hilly forests of eastern Paraguay until being brutally forced out, became notorious in the 1970s.
As the agricultural expansion into eastern Paraguay gathered pace from the 1950s, the Aché found themselves forced to defend their land from an ever-increasing colonist population. These colonists soon started to mount raiding parties to kill the male Aché: women and children were usually captured and sold as slaves.
One of the most notorious hunters of the Aché was Manuel Jesús Pereira, a local landowner. He was an employee of Paraguay’s Native Affairs Department, and his farm was turned into an Aché “reservation”, to which captured Aché were transported. Beatings and rape were common. Countless others died of respiratory diseases. The Director of the Native Affairs Department was a frequent visitor, and also sold Aché slaves himself.
More:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/ache-sue-paraguays-government-over-historic-genocide/
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As the original article mentions, the Colorado Party, the fascists, has been in charge for the last 70 years, with the brief 4 year intermission during which former Bishop Fernando Lugo was elected, then targeted in a congressional coup and removed so the fascists could return to power.
The Colorado Party, with its 35 year reign by fascist Alfredo Stroessner, which was A-OK with the U.S., also gave haven to German WWII Nazi murderer and torturer, the "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz, Dr. Josef Mengele and other Nazi war criminals.
Couldn't get much nastier.
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