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- Subject: N-L: The ACTivist, Vol 8#9, Sept. 1992
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- ~Subject: The ACTivist, Vol 8#9, Sept. 1992
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- /* Written 8:49 pm Aug 31, 1992 by act in web:gen.newsletters */
- /* ---------- "The ACTivist, Vol 8#9, Sept. 1992" ---------- */
- POLICING THE PINES
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- Tensions erupted again on the troubled Mohawk reserve of Kanesetake
- this month, in a dispute over the policing of the area.
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- Kanesetake, the site of a 1990 standoff in which one police officer
- was killed and many native people arrested and, some say, tortured,
- has continued to be patrolled by the Surete de Quebec. The Surete, as
- well as allegedly torturing prisoners in 1990, has demonstrated
- considerable racism and insensitivity in dealings with the community.
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- On August 20, after another incident of police harassment, residents of
- Kanesetake erected a barricade. Though it came down the next day
- -- after Premier Bourassa made a visit to the reserve -- the elected
- band council chief, Jerry Peltier, says he will hold a community
- referendum to determine if checkpoints should be set up on the main
- road to the Pines area.
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- If the community decides to erect the checkpoints, they will be used
- to bar the Surete from the reserve unless they are invited by a resident.
- A native police force would take their place.
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