LIVING CULTURAL SITE DESTROYED BY WMC

LIVING CULTURAL SITE DESTROYED BY WMC …AGAIN!
Keepers of Lake Eyre Media Release - 15 November 2000

NEWS | WMC

On the 11/11/2000 the Arabunna going home camp, situated on the shores of Lake Eyre South, was destroyed by Western Mining Corporation... again.

This is the second time since the camp was set up, in March 1999, that WMC have removed the camp and stolen the personal possessions of the residents. Despite the Supreme Court of SA stating that there should be no more harassment from WMC towards the residents of the camp at lake Eyre. The keepers of the camp were continually harassed, on a daily basis, by WMC security. Whilst the residents of the camp where visiting friends down the road, WMC took the opportunity to destroy the camp, without written authorization of the SA courts.

WMC also failed to notify the Arabunna nation or the Keepers of Lake Eyre of their intentions. Legal advice is being sought and appropriate legal action will be taken. The Arabunna Going Home Camp was set up by Kevin Buzzacott (Arabunna Elder/ Peace Maker) as a living cultural site and a place of peace and active reconciliation. The sacred peace fire was ignited at the camp on the 10 of June 2000 and was carried 3060km by Kevin Buzzacott on his historic journey to Sydney -Walking the Land For Our Ancient Rights, Peace and Healing.

The walk, which lasted over three months, was a journey for peace and reconciliation which many hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from all over the world took part in.

Kevin Buzzacott states:

"It is an internationally recognised peace camp and a living cultural site of the Arabunna nation. Who has given the permission for our home to be destroyed?"

"WMC are criminals and the inheritors of the genocidal practices of their forebears. When will we (the Arabunna people) be allowed to live in our own country, without being hassled, assaulted and moved on, yet again."

"We are the rightful owners of this whole country. The residents of the camp are people from all over the world who have the full permission of the Arabunna nation to live in our country, unlike WMC who are the masters of oppression, the corporation of theft and the kings of genocide".

"Is there any justice out there. When do we (the Arabunna Nation) have access to basic human rights and the right to peacefully live in our own land. When can we go home?"

For more details contact: Kevin Buzzacott Ph: 0417 838 906
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Keepers of Lake Eyre:

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Telephone: (08) 8340 4401

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Adelaide,
South Australia 5000

Arabunna Elder, Kevin Buzzacott:

Tel. 0417 838 906

PO Box 28, Marree,
South Australia 5733

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