Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 2001 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001

NAACP president calls for everyone to take a stand

against racism WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) “If you hapjj^/to be Black, your — Minority groups must band to- vote is 10 times as likely not to

gether to eliminate racism in America, but all citizens have the responsibility to provide leadership and effect change, the NAACP president reminded a Purdue University audience. ‘Too often, people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand,” Kweisi Mfume said last week. “True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are.” Mfume reminded the audience how the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 and based in Baltimore, has been instrumental in winning human rights. Legal lynchings, literacy tests tied to voter registration, integration of the military and desegregated schools were just a few of the group’s battles. “But news stories show that racism and hate remain alive and well in the United States,” said Mfume, who offered examples of racism against Black, Hispanic, gay and Jewish people.

count,” he said. Minorities also suffer from substandard health care, high mortality rates, and low life expectancy, he said. “The United States is the envy of the world, but millions of its citizens are angry, frustrated and depressed because they lack education, living wages, and marketable skills,” he said. Mfume urged Blacks to use their political power judiciously. At the same time, he condemned Congress for failing to pass a hate crimes bill, especially after the legislation was endorsed by most state attorneys general. Mfume said minorities must continue to build coalitions when people want to talk about the power of individual groups. “Oppressed people should consider themselves part of a family, with bonds and ties of common need and condition,” he said. “In many respects, we are not yet one nation,” Mfume said. We still await the kind of society that was promised in the Declaration and the Constitution.

International News

Netherlands to support Kenyan farmers NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) — The Dutch government is to spend over Ksh 13 million (about $166,000) on a horticultural and dairy farming project in Kenya’s marginal areas of Keiyo and Marakwet districts. The funds will be channeled through the Semi-Arid Rural Development Program or SARDEP, based in the rural town of Iten of the Rift Valley province. SARDEP’s agro-based development and food security sector specialist, Ruth Mitei, told PANA in Nairobi that the funds would be used to supplement government’s efforts to eradicate poverty in the region. She said the Netherlands would increase financial assistance to community-based development projects to enable residents to become self-reliant in food production. Mitei said that 8 million shillings of the total funding will go towards dairy farming to boost earnings from diary products. She disclosed that Ksh 4.4 million would be spent on horticultural products like mangoes, pyrethrum, cassava, and groundnuts, among other cash crops. She said Sardep would spend Ksh 593,516 on poultry farming while Ksh 204,280 would be spent on fish projects. “We are mainly focusing on in-

come generating projects that can uplift the living standard of the local community,” Mitei said. To be eligible, horticultural farmers will be required to initiate community-based irrigation systems so as to avert crop failures during drought years. She explained that assistance would be withdrawn from beneficiaries whose projects will fail to generate more than Ksh 5,000 per month. Zimbabwe fights to control foot and mouth disease HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) —Zimbabwe government agriculture officials said they had intensified efforts to control a raging foot and mouth disease that has cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars in lost export revenue. Director of Veterinary Services Stuart Hargreaves said more than 100,000cattle would be vaccinated, raising the number of treated animals to 400,000 since the outbreak of the disease. Foot and mouth broke out i n the southern city of Bulawayo in late August, but has since spread to many areas in the country, forcing authorities to suspend all beef exports. Hargreaves said the source of the disease had yet to identified, but suspected it originated from a game park in the south of the country where livestock could have

mixed with buffaloes. Cattle in virtually the entire southern half of Zimbabwe have been quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease, whose outbreak has led to fears the country could run short of beef even for domestic consumption. But the main fear is that Zimbabwe would fail to fulfil its annual export quotas of 9,000 tons and 5,000 tons to the European Union and South Africa, respectively. The country also exports smaller amounts of beef to Asia, and had recently won a similar order from Libya.

Bronwen Manby, deputy director of the Africa Division of Human

Rights Watch.

Police, army units and private security companies working to protect farm owners have, in some cases, attacked the farm workers, the report said. The report, “Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent Crime on South African Farms,” was published in advance of the World Conference Against Racism, that started this week in Durban. —^

More than 1,000 people—mcC 'them white farmers—have dit^j

Police fall to protect South Africa’s rural

Blacks from violence, human rights group says PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The South African police are failing to properly protect Black people in rural areas from violent crime, a human rights organization

said last week.

Though the government has en trying to combat a spate of llings of white farmers, it has en far less responsive to attacks ;ainst poor, Black farm workers, iiman Rights Watch said in a re-

»rt on rural violence.

“Farm workers and other rural

dwellers are more vulnerable to violence, including from their employers, and less likely to get help from the police and courts,” said

of them white farmers-

in attacks on South African farms; over the last 10 years, a farmers’ organization said earlier this month. Human Rights Watch expressed^ concern about the government’s inability to prevent those killings but said the state has been even less responsive to Black farm workers, even when they have been victims of rape and other violent crime. Overzealous security agents have beaten farm workers, army reservists were accused of torturing and killing them and farmers themselves often beat their workers and in some cases raped and

killed them, the report said.

The New York-based human rights group called on the government to respond to crime without discrimination, bar members of the army from policing duties and bring private security companies under

control.

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