Posted on 04/17/2015 1:54:02 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Seven years ago, the World Bank set out to help preserve Kenya's Embobut Forest for future generations. As part of the Natural Resource Management Project, it spent millions to mitigate erosion, prevent landslides and improve the administration of water resources.
The bank acknowledged that some of the area's residents would have to be relocated, only to declare a few years later that relocation would be too complicated and unnecessary. By then, Kenya's government was already using the project as a justification to rid the forest of its indigenous population, the Sengwer. Thousands have found themselves dispossessed, their houses set ablaze by Kenyan forest officers. The bank's intentions may have been noble, but as a result of the project, the Sengwer have been forced out of their ancestral lands.
What happened to the Sengwer is not unique. World Bank projects around the globe have resulted in the physical displacement or severe economic injury of an estimated 3.4 million people since 2004. That's according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which on Thursday released its findings from a months-long project involving more than 50 journalists in 21 countries.
In Ethiopia, thousands of members of an indigenous Christian group called the Anuak have fled their homes, the result of a mass government relocation campaign that reportedly has used World Bank loans. In Brazil, the bank spent $7.5 billion on 42 projects that displaced more than 10,000 people, including 35 families forced off their land alongside a river to make room for a dam, only to be resettled in a village with no freshwater source. Those are just two of many such examples.
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Jerry Brown is trying to depopulate California by means of a government-caused drought.
Bkmrk.
hell, doctors are breaking hteir oath to ‘do no harm’ as well- oaths mean nothing anymore apparently
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
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