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AT: Genocide – Natives – OppressionGIS helps in oppression of indigenous populations Madsen 94 (Wayne, Lead Sci, Comp Sci Corp, spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/tempe/madsen, DA 7/7/11, OST) In those countries where repressive governments have used census information to forcibly assimilate and transfer indigenous populations, GIS technology could be used to assist in such programs. The bitter experience of several ethnic minorities in Russia serves as dramatic cases in point. The neo-nationalist Russian government has spoken of disestablishing ethnic republics originally set up during the time of Lenin. Russia's sophisticated satellite surveillance system could be used to identify resource-rich lands in these republics. This may lead to the forced removal of ethnic groups in a manner reminiscent of Stalin's forced migrations of the 1920s and 1930s. The Sakha Republic's nomadic reindeer herding population could be the first victims of such a policy. The Sakha control territory with some of the largest diamond deposits in the world. Their republic is also rich in silver and timber. The Japanese conglomerates that have used GIS data to deforest Sarawak have also expressed an interest in exploiting the natural resources of Sakha. Satellite imagery is used to abuse the freedoms of indigenous people Madsen 94 (Wayne, Lead Sci, Comp Sci Corp, spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/tempe/madsen, DA 7/7/11, OST) The United States has used its satellite imagery capabilities to combat the illicit international narcotics trade. While such efforts seem laudable on the surface, a detailed examination often points to ulterior motives behind such surveillance. Data extracted on the location of narcotics production areas often coincides with the location of repressed national minority groups and indigenous tribes. For example, in 1989 American imagery satellites began to discover an increase in opium production in Burma's Golden Triangle area. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Burmese military officials began to share intelligence based on the satellite imagery. One of the benefactors of this intelligence was Brig. Gen. Tin Hla, the commander of Burma's 22nd Light Infantry Division, a unit not involved with counter-narcotics operations but, in fact, responsible for stamping out ethnic rebellions among the Shan, Kachins and Karens in northern and eastern Burma (Lintner, 1993,23-24). In 1991, the DEA and Pakistan cooperated in an anti-narcotics operation using satellite imagery and GIS technology. Some computer surveillance equipment was provided to Pakistan by the Agency for International Development (AID), an agency better known for assisting underdeveloped peoples to attain self-sufficiency in agriculture and light industry. Although 42.3 metric tons of drugs were seized by the DEA-Pakistani team, the fact that the operation was conducted against the Baluchis, a repressed indigenous minority in southwest Pakistan, raised concerns over the future use of satellite imagery to target specific groups of indigenous peoples. The U.S. and Pakistan subsequently established a second "drug monitoring" operation in northern Pakistan, this time directed against another minority group, the Pashtoon people inhabiting the Pakistani-Afghan border (Forcht, 1994, 184-185). AT: Genocide – Natives – Oppression Imagery is used to oppress minority groups and prop up dictators Madsen 94 (Wayne, Lead Sci, Comp Sci Corp, spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/tempe/madsen, DA 7/7/11, OST)\ The United States, as one of the two most advanced remote sensing nations in the world, bears a special responsibility to prevent remote sensing data from being used for purposes of exploitation and violations of human rights. The other major remote sensing nation is France. It, too, has demonstrated a willingness to permit the abuse of remote sensing data as it affects indigenous peoples. In 1994, France announced that it had captured the international terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" in Khartoum, Sudan. This feat ironically involved the trading of French imagery intelligence to the Sudanese, a trade which ultimately resulted in more Sudanese "state terrorism" against the black African minority in the south of the country. The southern Sudanese believed that the north wanted to drain their swamps by building the Jonglei Canal which would increase the flow of water through the White Nile. One southern Sudanese, Dr. John Garang, wrote his doctoral thesis on the negative environmental impact of the Jonglei Canal. In 1985 the southern Sudanese revolted against the north and demanded independence (Moszynski, July 1, 1994, 25). The Sudanese wanted an end to the revolt. They agreed to hand over Carlos to the French in return for high-grade French SPOT imagery photographs of the positions of southern Sudan guerilla forces. Using the satellite imagery provided by the French and analyzed by Iraqi imagery analysts, the Sudanese launched a massive ground and air offensive against the southerners including a faction led by Dr. John Garang, native environmentalist turned leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). British MP Tony Worthington was one of a few Western politicians who expressed his outrage, saying "Obviously we can understand that the French were keen to capture Carlos, but does it have to be at the expense of the Sudanese people who have been brutally murdered by the appalling regime in Khartoum whom the French have assisted by providing military intelligence to help the slaughter?" (Moszynski, Oct. 1994, 32) AT: Genocide – Natives – Exploitation – Resource locatingGIS leads to exploitation of native lands Madsen 94 (Wayne, Lead Sci, Comp Sci Corp, spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/tempe/madsen, DA 7/7/11, OST) The use of GIS technology to identify indigenous lands ripe for exploitation has been particularly acute in southeast Asia's deforestation programs. Japanese industrial conglomerates with the latest satellite data at their disposal have, along with their Malaysian, Philippine and Indonesian counterparts, helped to displace thousands of indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Sabah, Luzon and Sumatra. The Sarawak Ibans, Achehnese of Sumatra, Kadazans of Sabah and Igorote of Luzon have been driven virtually underground in their battles against the central governments and the huge logging companies. Many indigenous activists have been jailed and killed. Presently some 30 percent of Sarawak's rain forests have been logged. Spatial-derived maps have pinpointed the location of another 14.3 million acres - 60 percent of Sarawak's rain forests and these have been conceded to logging firms. Like their North American Indian counterparts, the Ibans believe the rain forests are spiritually "alive." The Ibans say, "From the forest, we get our life." (Cultural Survival, 1993, 26-27). Of course the same situation exists in the Amazon rain forests where Indian tribes such as the Yanomami have faced deforestation at the hands of exploitative central and state governments, hostile timber companies and an indifferent band of international financiers including the World Bank. Although GIS-derived data has been informative in identifying the damage already done to the Amazon forests, the same data has been used to further exploit Amazon resources. All this has come at the expense of the indigenous rain forest dwellers some of whom have been forced to migrate to squalid cities and towns. Satellite data was used by five Latin American governments to decide on going ahead with the Parana-Paraguay River Project. The indigenous Guarani were the first victims of the World Bank-funded project. Native lands that were not flooded were soon occupied by exploitative real estate developers. The Guarani were herded into Bantustan-like reservations. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.58 Mb. Share with your friends:
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