RE: Hearing ?19 Sep 2023 10:28
The last part of the article translated via Google. Maxida Märak isn’t saying negotiations, the writer of the article is. But why negotiations? The SAC doesn’t have to negotiate with anyone surely, and the ruling should be final.
Or is the interpretation of Swedish Law so difficult that the powers that be don’t have a clue how to interpret it? Lol.
Anyway, last line:
"Extremely humiliating"
In her speech, Maxida Märak addressed the forced displacement of the Sami during the first decades of the 20th century and asked rhetorically:
- Who will have to move now? If you know your history, you are well aware of what forced displacement is, and what traces it left in us. There are families who to this day cannot see each other in the eye.
When the government made the decision to say yes to the processing concession in 2022, it also added 12 unique conditions to indemnify the affected Sami villages. One of them is that reindeer herders can be financially compensated when a mine is built. Maxida Märak didn't care much for that.
- To even assume that we would be so soulless that we exchange our animals for money, it is extremely degrading. It is a stupid declaration of an entire people.
The Sami villages now want the justice of the Supreme Administrative Court to overturn the government's decision.
- We now hope for justice, said Maxida Märak.
The negotiations last for two days.