The ruling and sentence were handed down by the tribunal’s presiding officers after 20 minutes’ deliberation, without the defense being allowed to file a note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe health and lives of these defendants are at risk in the prison where they are being held, due to inhumane conditions including lack of sufficient food, exposure to raw sewage, and not having enough room to sleep lying down.<\/p>\n
SIGNATORIES: <\/strong><\/p>\nAction de Solidarite des Femmes pour le Developpement en Milieu Rural (ASOFED-MR) (RD Congo)
\nActions pour le Regroupement et l’Auto promotion des Pygmees (ARAP) (RD Congo)
\nActions Solidaires d’Appui au Developpement Integral (ASADI) (RD Congo)
\nAfrica Youth Disabled Initiative for Sustainable Developpment (AYISD) (RD Congo)
\nAfrican Freedom Coalition (United States)
\nAFRICAPACITY (RD Congo)
\nAGAPE asbl (RD Congo)
\nAgro-Forestry Development Consultant (Lao PDR)
\nAmnesty International (International)
\nAmnesty International (International)
\nAnima Mundi Law Initiative (United Kingdom)
\nAssociation Communautaire pour la Promotion et Protection des Droits de l’ Homme ( ACPDH) (Burundi)
\nAssociation des Formations et d’Encadrement des Femmes Desoeuvrees (AFED) (RD Congo)
\nAssociation des Jeunes Novateurs du Développement (AJND) (RD Congo)
\nAssociation for Farmers Rights Defense (AFRD) (Georgia)
\nAssociation For Promotion Sustainable development (India)
\nAssociation of Environmental Justice in Israel (AEJI) (Israel)
\nAssociation pour le Développement Intégré des Paysans et des Enfants dans leTanganyika (ADIPET) (RD Congo)
\nBelmont BEC Inc (Australia)
\nBlack Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) (United Kingdom and International)
\nBlessed Aid (RD Congo)
\nBureau d’Appui aux Programmes d’Education et de Developpement (RD Congo)
\nCenter for World Indigenous Studies (United States)
\nCentre d’Accompagnement du Plaidoyer (CAP!) (France)
\nCIVIL BRIDGE (RD Congo)
\nCivil Society Coalition on Indigenous peoples in Uganda (Uganda)
\nComboni Missionaries (United States and RD Congo)
\nCongregation of the Sisters of the Presentation (Canada)
\nConservation of Flora and Fauna (COFF) (Pakistan)
\nConservation Solutions Afrika (Kenya)
\nCrimean Tatar Resource Center (Ukraine)<\/strong>
\nDeveloppeurs Sans Frontieres (DSF) (RD Congo)
\nEncadrement des Femmes Indigènes et des Ménages vulnérables (EFIM) (RD Congo)
\nEnvironnement Ressources Naturelles et Développement (ERND) (RD Congo)
\nEzemvelo & Agriwise Services (South Africa)
\nFairhaven Lantern Center (International)
\nFamily Counselling and Planning (FCP) (RD Congo)
\nFédération des Femmes pour le Développement Intégral au Congo (FEDICONGO) (RD Congo)
\nFederation Internationale pour le Developpement de l’Enfant Africain (FIDEA) (RD Congo)
\nFemmes et Education des Adultes (FEDA) (RD Congo)
\nFONAHD RDC (RD Congo)
\nForest Peoples Programme (International)
\nFoyer de Développement pour l’Autopromotion des Pygmées et Indigènes Défavorisés (FDAPID) (RD Congo)
\nGhana Clean Advocacy (Ghana)
\nGlobal Environmental Justice Group (United Kingdom)
\nGroupe de travail climat REDD (GTCR) (RD Congo)
\nGrupo Intercultural Almáciga (Spain)
\nGrupo Tacuba (México)
\nHequeendo Compassionate Friends (Kenya)
\nHuman Health Aid in Burundi (Burundi)
\nInitiative for Equality (IfE) (International)
\nInitiative pour la Promotion des Femmes Autochtones et Vulnérables (IPROFAV) (RD Congo)
\nInstitute for International Law and Human Rights (Regional – Middle Eastern States)
\nInstitute of Development and Humanitarian Affairs (Sierra Leone)
\nIntegrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) (International)
\nInternational Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) (Philippines)
\nInternational Presentation Association (International)
\nInternational Presentation Association (International)
\nKaputir Resource Management Organizations (Kenya)
\nLand is Life (International)
\nLiberia indigenous rural workers trade union (LIRWTU) (Liberia)
\nLigue des Sacrifices Volontaires pour la Défense Des droits de l’homme et d’environnement (LISVDHE) (RD Congo)
\nMaryknoll Fathers and Brothers (United States)
\nMinority Rights Group International (MRGI) (International)
\nMissionari Comboniani del Cuore di Gesu (Italy, RD Congo and Regional)
\nMungu ni Jibu a.s.b.l (RD Congo)
\nNGO BIOS (Moldova)
\nOne Billion Rising network (India)
\nOrganización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH) (Honduras)
\nParelement Des Filles Au Sud-Kivu (PAFI) (RD Congo)
\nPATHIKRIT (Bangladesh)
\nPermaculture for Refugees (International)
\nPHM Benin (Benin)
\nPresbytery of San Jose (United States)
\nRainforest Foundation UK (International)
\nRéseau d’Experts et Journalistes pour l’Environnement et les Peuples Autochtones (REJEPA) (RD Congo)
\nRéseau Initiative for Equality (RIFE) (RD Congo, Regional)
\nRéseau Congolais des Forestiers de la RD Congo (RCF) (RD Congo)
\nRights and Resources Initiative (RD Congo and International)
\nRiver Ethiope Trust Foundation (Nigeria)
\nRural Enterprise Trust of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
\nSigidi Development (South Africa)
\nSisters of Charity Federation (United States)
\nSisters of Notre Dame de Namur (International)
\nSociety of Catholic Medical Missionaries (International)
\nSOS Secours a la Femme en Détresse (SOS SFD) (RD Congo)
\nStephanie Peacebuilding and Development Foundation (Nigeria)
\nSustainable Innovation Initiatives (Trinidad, USA, Venezuela)
\nSynergie des Jeunes pour la Paix et le Developpment (SJPD) (RD Congo)
\nThe Schumacher Institute (United Kingdom)
\nUnion des Associations des Pygmées de Mbandaka (UAPM) (RD Congo)
\nUnion des Peuples Autochtones pour le Réveil au Développement (UPARED) (Burundi)
\nUnion for Promotion \/ Protection, Human Rights Defense and the Environment (UPDDHE\/GL) (RD Congo)
\nUnion pour la Promotion des Femmes (UPF) (RD Congo)
\nUniversity of Cape Town Environmental Humanities South Programme (South Africa)
\nWilderdom (South Africa and Namibia)<\/p>\nBACKGROUND INFORMATION <\/strong><\/p>\nFacts of the Kasula Case : Eight indigenous Batwa community members, who have sought to regain access to their traditional lands, now part of Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. In response, two local human rights organizations in Sud-Kivu Province have filed an appeal to try to overturn the convictions.<\/p>\n
After a one-day trial filled with irregularities (see section below), on 4th February 2020 six men were sentenced to 15 years in prison plus $5000 fines each, and two women to one year each. Charges included illegal exploitation of park resources, illegal possession of firearms, and association with criminals. Community members sentenced include Chief Jean-Marie Kasula, head of the village of Muyange in the Miti Groupement, his wife, Nsimire M’manda, as well as Kayeye Badosa, Bisimwa Mufanzala, Faida Bahati, Cirakarula Kayeye, Murhula Kashadu, and Cekanabo Kayeye. They are all former hunter-gatherers who now live by precarious farming on land where they have no security, and by gathering non-wood forest products<\/p>\n
During what appears to be a sham trial in a “mobile” court (a green tent set up by the military in a small Batwa village outside the park entrance), it was claimed that these indigenous Batwa people were not really “Pygmies” (the older term to refer to this ethnic group), but just a criminal gang. At other times, these statements were contradicted, calling Jean-Marie Kasula “the chief of the Pygmy war group” (“le chef groupe de guerre pygmée”). Both statements run counter to Kasula’s well-documented role of engaging in dialogue with the Park for the Batwa.<\/p>\n
Timeline and Irregularities in the Kasula Case: The timeline of the arrests, evidence-gathering phase, defense preparation, trial and sentencing were compressed into less than two weeks:<\/p>\n
\n- the defendants were taken into custody in a raid by the Congolese Army (FARDC) on the night of 24-25 January 2020<\/li>\n
- they were presented on 30 January before the Governor of Sud-Kivu Province, along with an unrelated militia captured in the region<\/li>\n
- the complaint was filed on 01 February by the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN)<\/li>\n
- another raid to look for evidence took place on 02 February<\/li>\n
- the detainees were given no opportunity to choose attorneys<\/li>\n
- the counsel designated for the defendants was given no chance to prepare a case<\/li>\n
- the trial began and ended on 04 February<\/li>\n
- a judgment was issued that very same day, after 20 minutes’ deliberation<\/li>\n
- PNKB officials demonized the defendants after the judgement was pronounced, with the goal of intimidating indigenous Batwa so they don’t dare enter the Park<\/li>\n
- the circumstances of their detention have been horrific, with lack of sufficient food, frequent exposure to raw sewage, and lack of decent place to sleep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We denounce the whole process that led to the convictions of these eight indigenous Batwa men and women, because the guarantees of a fair trial were not met.<\/p>\n
History of Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB): Some 6,000 Batwa people were evicted from the expanded park in several waves during the 1970’s, with no provisions made for alternative lands, means of subsistence or survival. After living in extreme poverty for decades, these communities have been making sincere attempts to negotiate a peaceful solution with the Congolese government that would allow them to return home or to find lands that were similar to theirs. When park officials were unable to force the Batwa communities to back down, they adopted a hardline approach including arrests and even killings.<\/p>\n
For the past 40 years, there have been off-and-on attempts to regain lands in the park (PNKB), or at least to gain access to traditional resources such as natural medicines, gathering caterpillars, and collecting firewood for cooking food (right of use, Article 36 of the Forest Code). These attempts have included IUCN’s Whakatane dialogue (on and off since 2014) that brought all parties to the table, but has recently been called off because of such clear bad faith on the part of the Park. This bad faith is evidenced by the Park’s failure to live up to promises they have made in different ‘dialogues’, including provision of alternative lands, schools, and other services, cessation of all arrests for being in the forest, release of those previously arrested, jobs as eco-guards, and more. In October of 2018, with dialogue having proved fruitless, some Batwa communities moved into the park and made a stand. Since then, several attempts at negotiation have failed when signed agreements were subsequently violated by Park officials and the national Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN). After their failure to keep their promise to relocate Batwa onto lands at INERA, PNKB and ICCN knew that the Batwa would have no choice but to return to the land of their ancestors to cultivate and find food there. Attempts by the Batwa to move back onto their lands have been violently repelled by the Park, with a documented 9 deaths of Batwa over recent years[6],[7].<\/p>\n
Context of Coercive Conservation: These problems at PNKB have followed the pattern, well-documented for other large nature reserves, in which local and indigenous people who lived in and protected the habitat for centuries or millennia were suddenly evicted and subsequently harassed or even shot as poachers when attempting to return home. Traditional land rights held by indigenous peoples and other communities around the world often conflict with the desire to develop or extract resources from their lands, thus leading to conflicts and even killings by more powerful forces intent on grabbing their lands. Additionally, misguided attempts to protect the lands from exploitation by removing the indigenous inhabitants often lead to further abuses of the habitat and wildlife, as well as of the indigenous people themselves.<\/p>\n
Conservation science shows that such lands are far better protected if ancestral communities are supported to remain on and protect their lands. Conflict between these communities and conservation organisations exists primarily where conservation is used as an excuse to evict communities, sometimes to pursue an outdated coercive conservation strategy, and often the better to exploit their lands.<\/p>\n
Divide and conquer strategy: The Park and ICCN officials appear to have been using a strategy of divide and conquer among the Batwa people. They visit the poverty-stricken communities to promise education for the children and food for all, but then do not meet their promises. Since sentencing Jean-Marie Kasula and other Miti Groupement community members to prison on 04 February, according to information we have received, and taking advantage of the precariousness of neighboring Batwa communities and brothers of Jean-Marie Kasula, PNKB has distributed a small amount of food (vegetable oil, maize flour and beans) in nearby Batwa communities to confuse the issue and discourage support for those who were sentenced. They also paid nearby community members to testify against Kasula and the others, and hired men to hunt down other Batwa who fled when the army arrived to arrest Kasula. In March of 2020, another three people from a neighboring (non-Batwa) community were arrested and thrown in prison for “supporting” Kasula.<\/p>\n
The need for solidarity: The entire process by which Kasula and the other seven defendants were arrested, charged, tried and convicted was illegal, ignoring even the most basic rights of people who are accused of crimes. The bottom line is that these arbitrary convictions are unjust. They also appear to be yet another attempt to eradicate the Batwa people from their own traditional territories, in order to free up the land and resources for outside interests. Ecosystems will only be protected and indigenous land rights respected if we stand together in solidarity with those on the front lines, and back them up when they contest illegalities and abuses. We ask all concerned organizations and communities to stand with us in this intergenerational struggle for justice.<\/p>\n
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