AMC ALARMED WITH REPORTS OF POTENTIAL STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST WET’SUWET’EN ACTIVISTS IN BC
December 21, 2019
Treaty One Territory, Manitoba
AMC Communications
Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) expressed alarm and concern on recent media reports that the RCMP was prepared to use lethal force on Wet’suwet’en people who have been defending their ancestral lands from devastating effects of resource extraction.
In an exclusive article published by The Guardian on December 20, 2019, documents on RMCP strategy described a militarized raid at the Wet’suwet’en blockade in northern BC. This included a plan to maintain a “lethal overwatch”, to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want” and to “sterilizing the site.”