The aspirations of the Degar people are the
same as the ones that the General Assembly called for - the
recognition of the following basic rights of indigenous populations
- in 1983.
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To
have access to land and natural resources, so that we may
hunt, fish, farm, reconstruct our villages in the traditional
style, and return to our own way of life. The right to our
land - which has been denied for many years - is particularly
in the light of the fundamental importance of this to our
traditions, aspirations and survival..
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To
maintain within the areas where we live traditional economic
structure and way of life; this should in no way affect
our right to participate freely on an equal basis in the
economic, social and political development of the country.
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To
maintain within the areas where we live traditional economic
structure and way of life; this should in no way affect
our right to participate freely on an equal basis in the
economic, social and political development of the country.
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To
maintain and use our own language, wherever possible, for
administration and education..
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To
structure, conduct and control our own education system.
.
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To
enjoy freedom of religion or belief.
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To
have official status and to form our own representative
organizations..
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To
call ourselves by our proper name and to express freely
our own identity.
Most
of all, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam must respect and follow
the rules and laws of the United Nations which they have agreed
and signed such as the United Nations Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, the convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide and so on.
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The SRV government has to respect our ancestral territory.
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The
SRV government must stop the human rights violations in
Vietnam especially in the Central Highlands.
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The
SRV government must stop their policies of genocide toward
Degar people such as forced sterilization, killing our people
by false accusation, killing our people with starvation
by confiscating our farmlands and relocating our people
to poor agricultural land (Fixed Field/Fixed Resident) and
many more scheme of exterminating our race of people..
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