Special rapporteur on indigenous rights finds land invasions and deforestationMiskitos and other groups demand government help in remote regionIndians on Honduras’s Caribbean coast are suffering invasions of their lands by squatters,loggers, palm-oil planters and drug traffickers, and a UN official said on Tuesday.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz,the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said drug traffickers lop down trees to carve airstrips from the jungle, and recruited Indian youths into the trade and bought up land to launder money.
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Source: theguardian.com