INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PROTEST EXCLUSION OF PRIVATE LAND|傳統領域劃設排除私地 原民凱道抗爭近百日

Indigenous groups protesting a government decision that excludes all private lands from being designated indigenous territories, have now camped in front of the Presidential Office for almost 100 days. Yesterday morning, several academics and scholars showed up for support. They said the policy is tantamount to letting large corporations arbitrary develop lands that would otherwise be protected as indigenous territories. Many indigenous demonstrators are protesting over the policy of delineating indigenous traditional territories with private land exclusion. Protestors have been camping at Ketagalan Boulevard for over three months. Several scholars and writers went to show their supports. ==CHEN YAO HUA Professor of Philosophy, Soochow University== A policy like this, is a policy of exterminating indigenous culture. The policy allows megacorporations to do anything they want, to deprive lands in Taiwan. The Council of Indigenous Peoples this February announced the guidelines on the delineation of Indigenous traditional territories, the guidelines have 800 thousand hectares of government-owned land listed, but one million hectares of private land were not recognized as traditional territories. Many indigenous people are concerned about future large-scale development projects would bypass private indigenous land owners and deprive their rights to express objection. They have been asking the Council of Indigenous Peoples to retract the announcement. Also the guidelines earn no progress since its submission in April to the Legislative Yuan. ==SHIH CHENG-FENG Professor, Nat'l Dong Hua University== For those development projects in the past years, they will immediately be legalized. That is to say, until local election next year, an election year for mayors and magistrates, all those are listed as political achievements. I remind Tsai Administration, are they being deceived? Or was their conscience being eaten by dogs? ==CHEN FENG-MING Professor in Taiwanese Literature, Nat'l Chengchi University== Tsai Ing-wen told us when she assumed the office. Her administration will be the most open government, but why communication has become so distant? The Deputy Minister Iwan Nawi of Council of Indigenous Peoples visited protestors and said that the council is not retracting the announcement; but the council considers to apply bill on indigenous land and sea for regulating private land in the traditional territories after the bill is passed. Scholar Huang Sung-li, a member to the Presidential Office Human Rights Consultative Committee, said that he is to raise the issue in June to Vice-president Chen Chien-jen. TRANSLATED BY: ANTHONY LIN 不滿原住民傳統領域劃設，排除私有地，有原住民在凱道駐紮，已經邁入第97天，上午多位學者到場聲援，批評一旦排除私有地，等同放任財團的大型開發案，可以任意在私有領域圈地。 不滿原住民傳統領域劃設，排除私有地，抗議的原住民現在仍繼續紮營駐守，時間超過三個月，上午多位學者、作家，前來聲援。 ==東吳大學哲學系教授 陳瑤華 所以這樣的一個政策 其實是一個去滅絕 原住民文化的一個政策 同樣的這樣得去讓財團 能夠為所欲為 同樣的也是對台灣土地的剝奪 原民會2月份，公告的傳統領域劃設辦法，只列入80萬公頃的公有地，其餘100萬公頃私有地，被排除在外。擔心未來若是大型開發，進駐傳統領域私有地，原住民依然無權被告知、甚至表達原住民對開發案的意見，因此屢屢要求原民會退回公告，但該公告四月初送進立院實質審查，沒有共識，五月朝野協商，也依舊沒有結果。 ==東華大學教授 施正鋒== 過去的這些開發案 馬上就 就地合法 也就是說到了明年 地方選舉的時候 縣市長選舉的時候 那些都是政績 提醒小英政府 你到底是不是被蒙蔽了呢 還是你的良心被狗咬去了 ==政大台文所教授 陳芳明 小英上台的時候告訴我們 他一定是最會溝通的政府 可是溝通怎麼現在變得這麼遙遠 原民會副主委伊萬 納威下午現身凱道表示，劃設辦法不會退回，未來會考慮以「原住民族土地及海域法」來規範私有地。而聲援的學者黃嵩立，同時也是總統府的人權諮詢委員會成員，他表示，預計將在六月份，與副總統陳建仁召開的諮詢會議中，針對傳統領域做出提案討論。 記者 黃怡菁 彭耀祖 台北報導