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| Caledonia Standoff | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 21 2008, 04:03 AM (39 Views) | |
| Canada | Oct 21 2008, 04:03 AM Post #1 |
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This is not really a war, but I don't know where else to put it, so.... The Ontario Provincial Police and local native tribesmen are in a tense standoff over a housing development in Caledonia, Ontario, which in October and December 2007 resulted in fights over the ownership of land. The government of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is negotiating, but it is said that the situation is going downhill. |
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| Canada | Oct 27 2008, 04:21 PM Post #2 |
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Caledonia Gets Ugly OPP officers had not been this tense in a long time. The battles at Oka in 1990 and Ipperwash in 1995 had resulted in dead bodies and black eyes for the police, and that wish to not cause violence had driven the three-year stalemate. The memories, and the storm that enveloped Premiers Harris and Bourassa after the battles were trying to be avoided as well. At least McGuinty hadn't muttered racial slurs about the protesters. But neither the furious residents of Caledonia nor the Six Nations protesters were helping. The protests had already more than once resulted in fistfights and drunken brawls, and local residents had found leaders willing to push their cause. The native protesters had been emboldened by the standoff, and had extorted numerous construction projects from London to Hamilton, and in several cases caused a mess at the sites. More than three dozen people had been arrested after a drunken brawl in Woodstock that had left two men and a 14-year-old girl in critical condition at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. But now, the RCMP had a firestorm coming right at them. After the injuries in Woodstock, angry protests in London, Brantford, Kitchener and Toronto were out and in force. The public opinion was short and to the point - get the OPP to do their jobs, and get the Indians off their occupied land. More than 200 OPP and RCMP officers were stationed at Caledonia, but a protest of thousands had been planned, and a couple hundred natives had come to Caledonia to bolster the numbers. The natives were armed, and the police knew it. Some of the protesters could be too, and the area's forums and bars had been alive with the talk of the citizens doing the job the OPP wouldn't. At about nine in the morning, people started showing up. Among them was the father and 22-year-old brother of the girl sent to Sunnybrook from the mess in Woodstock. They had signs galore, and tellingly had brought rags, fire extinguishers and in many cases helmets and bats. Some of these early protesters had come with guns, too. It wasn't long before the native protesters saw this, too. By noon, the crowds on both sides numbered in the hundreds. The police had called for reinforcements form London and Toronto, and those were starting to arrive. At one in the afternoon, the shifts changed over. This was the flashpoint. One group of the locals got around the changing OPP cops and got in the face of the native protesters. Both sides started throwing rocks and bottles at each others. One team of OPP units quickly moved in to stop the two sides. This however caused a worse problem.... One native protester was spooked by the rushing OPP officers. Unfortunately, this man had a rifle. The protester fired, turning a bad situation into a deadly one. Half a dozen armed civilian protesters returned fire, which caused pandemonium. People ran in all direction into and out of the barricade areas. The OPP moved in to to corral the various shooters. But more natives pulled into the scene and opened fire. The mess took just 30 minutes for OPP retreated, but in that mess five people, including two OPP officers and a 8 year old daughter of a home owner on the development, were dead. More than 80 injuries, several of them serious, resulted. Three more people, including two more OPP officers, would die of their injuries, one on the operating table at Sunnybrook in Toronto. |
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