08/03/18 08/03/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> i just returned from covering and ethnic cleansing campaign in the congo. during this campaign, hundreds were killed, thousands of homes burned down, hundreds of villages attacked, hundreds of thousands of people driven from their homes either into internal exile were made refugees outside the country. all of the suffering was

exacerbated a neglect from international communities and especially the america first policies with the trump administration. amy: "a slaughter in silence." we will speak to journalists about how a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in the democratic republic of congo was was made worse last year as part of president trump's america first policies. then to emilio gutierrez soto, a journalist who fled certain death in the state of mexico. he has just been released from an immigrant detention center in texas with his son. campfe in a concentration is extremely harsh. plus the -- what the immigration authorities seek is to finish you off psychologically. we are trying to resume our lives in liberty, in

semi-liberty. amy: and then to north dakota were the body of native american mother olivia lone bear has been found in the bottom of a lake after a nine-month search. her disappearance sparked renewed attention to the disproportionately high rates of disappearance, rape, and murder of native american women across the united states. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the environmental protection agency said thursday it will freeze obama era fuel economy standards at 2020 levels inin te latest blow by the trump administration against efforts to curb catastrophic climate change. under previous rules, the u.s. was on track to double fuel mileage standards to an average bynearly 55 miles per gallon 2020 five. under the new rules come automakers will be allowed to continue selling cars and light trucks in the u.s. at average about 30 miles per gallon.

the trumpet administration also plans to revoke california's authority to set its own tougher automobile emissions standards. acting epa administrator andrew wheeler said the u.s. needs a single standard for fuel efficiency for cars and trucks. united nations under previous rules condemned president comes rhetoric against the media. in a joint statement, u.n. special rapporteurs at the inter-american commission on human rights david kaye and edison lanza said of trump -- "these attacks run counter to the country's obligations to respect press freedom and international human rights law. we are especially concerned that these attacks increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence." their warning came as trump continued to assail the media. this is trump speaking at a campaign rally in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, thursday evening. pres. trump: there has never been, and even these people back here, these horrible, her rent us people -- horrendous people,

said it looks like the academy awards there are so many. have you ever seen this? but they can make anything bad disisgustininge the news. amy: trump's attacks came as his daughter, senior white house adviser ivanka trump, said she doesn't share he father's view that the press is the enemy of the american people. ivanka trump was speaking at an event held by the web site axios. during her interview, she also described her father's policy of sepaparating immigrant familiest the u.s.-mexico border as a low popoint of herer time in the whe house. >> yes, that was a low point for me as well. i feel very strongly about that. vehemently,y, against family separation and the separaration of parents and childrdren. soso i would agree with that sentimiment. i think immigration is

incncredibly complex. amy: in texas, immigrant rights groups say more than 500 fathers and sons who were separated at the u.s.-mexico border, then reunited inside a for-profit immigration jail, have launched a strike and are refusing orders from ice and guards from the geo group corporation. the fathers are reportedly refusing meals, saying they've been denied their right to apply for asylum, have not been nonotified aboutut their immigrn status, and that ice officials misled them into agreeing to deportation in exchange for reuniting with their children. their sons refused to participate in classes on thursday. this is audio of one of the fathers, obtained by the immigrant rights legal support group raices. >> what worries me is that we are restrained from our freedom as human beings. our children are crying. it is so bad in here. we're told one of the detainees' sons tried to hang himself. i have talked to other detainees and there is a plan.

we will not be eating and everyone has a great. amy: immigration and customs enforcement officials have denied a hunger strike is taking place inside karnes. on thursday, ice said in a statement that fewer than 50 people had participated in a brief sit-in protest and later dispersed. meanwhile, propublica reports that a youth care worker for southwest key has been charged with molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys in arizona. the worker is hiv-positive, prompting fears he may have transmitted the virus to the boys he sexually assaulted. in yemen's port city of hodeidah, bombers with the saudi-led, u.s.-supported coalition struck near the city's main public hohospital thursday. medics say thehe assault killedt least 55 people while wounding 126 others. this is a survivor of the attatack. >> i was rescuing people when the secocond airstrike happened. myt sent shrapnel flying into face, making me bleed a little. i could not feel my hand because of the shrapnel. amy: the latest civilian deaths came as the u.n. warned more than 8 million yemenis are now

experiencing extreme hunger as a result of the ongoing conflict, with millions morere at risk of contracting cholera -- as the u.s.-backed war on yemen has created the world's worst humanitarian disaster. zimbabwe's electoral commission has declared emmerson mnangagwa the winner of monday's national election. mnangagwa served as vicece prpresident under longtimeme ler robert mugabe. he emerged as interim president after zimbabwe's mimilitary seid government buildings and deposed mugabe last november. opposition parties have rejected the outcome, queuestioning t the vote-count. on thursday,y, police raided the headquarters of the movement for democratic change inin harare, accusing party leaders of inciting violence. the raid came as the death toll in a bloody crackdown by soldiers on wednesday's post-election protests rose to six. in nicaragua, hundreds of students protested in the streets of managua thursday, calling on president daniel ortega to resign. the latest protests came as international human rights groups say more than 300 people have been killed by police and

government-backed paramilitaries since anti-austerity protests erupted in april. the u.n. refugee agency says the violence has driven sosome 23,00 people t to flee to neighboringg costa a rica, where some 200 nicaraguans are applying for asylum each day. an international group of conservationists is warning that nearly every species of lemur is under threat of going extinct, as human development encroaches on their territory on the island of madagascar. the "primate specialist group" reported thursday that logging, slash-and-burn agriculture, and mining has left 105 of 111 lemur species vulnerable to extinction. in mexico, president-elect andres manuel lopez obrador says he's preparing to ban the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. environmental groups celebrated the announcement, with food and water watch director wenonah hauter telling desmog blog -- "the plan to ban fracking in mexico represents the latest

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we begin in the democratic republic of congo, which is facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in the world. between n 1998 and 2003, the drc suffered what has been described as the deadliest conflict since world war ii. more than 5 million people died. well, 15 years after the war ended in congo, the country is facing another massive crisis. last year 2 million congolese fled their homes. nearly 7 million congolese are now internally displaced. another 500,000 have fled to other parts of africa. according to the united nations, 13 million congolese are in urgent need of humanitararian aid. the international media has largely ignored what's happening. but this week, vice news published a shocking investigation into a recent case of ethnic cleansing where hundreds of machete-wielding militiamen swept through areas in congo near the ugandan border. about 120 communities were attacked, with hundreds killed,

thousands of homes destroyed, and some 350,000 people displaced. the violence came after the u.s. abruptly cut support for peacekeeping efforts in the congo and elsewhere last year as part of president trump's "america first" policies. for more, we are joined by vice news contributor and author nick turse. his article is headlined "a slaughter in silence: how a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in drc was made worse by trump's america first policies and the world's neglect." he is also the author of the book, "next time they'll come to count the dead: war and survival in south sudan." welcome back to democracy now! explain exactly what you have uncovered. >> i would to the democratic republic of congo earlier this year to cover existing conflicts and resulting refugee crisisis, but i found myself witness to an unfolding ethnic cleansing campaign in the far east of the democratic republic of congo.

nd they're the minority beingommunity was attacked. sometimes there's more than one attack per day on villages. there were about 120 attacks during this campaign. hundreds were killed. hundreds of thousands were driven from their homes. most of them became internal exiles inside of congo and then about 50,000 or so were driven across the border into uganda. amy: who is doing this? >> it is a very murky circumstance trying to find who is exactly behind us. when you talk to most people there, they say that it isn't in at the conflict -- which it has been for trade outside the country. they say there is an invisible hand behind it. when you delve into that further, basically it has meant powerful, political military forces are behind us. many people link it to the

president who has state in office as president two years beyond his legal mandate, and he has -- there is an election coming up, presidential election in december. a lot of people think this was orchestrated to help postpone that election or help up and up. amy: how would they do it? >> at the time this violence broke out, the head of the electoral commission in the capital came out and said, if there is violence in a tori province, there's a good chance we cannot hold elections because the ruby -- the population will be displaced and we have to focus ouour resources on quellig the unrest. that the exact same time, and rest look out -- broke out in the ituri province. amy: a want to turn to an earlier report on vice news tonight describing the violence in the province. the word of caution, some of these images are extremely graphic.

since 2007, they live in relative peace. not anymore. been attacking, burning villages and killing more than 250 people. just d days before we arrived in allegegedly a militia slauaughtered more than 40 villages. it was o one of the worst casesf ethnic violence in recent memory. >> they came in with machetes. losost.village, we there are many womomen. many arehe womomen, elderlrly. >> lost 15 family members and has been investigating the matter for human rights groups. >> thehere were also children of to two years come up to 20 yearars. therere is another who lost a we and children. this?an you elaborate on

>> this is one of the largest of the massacres. said 50 oroke to more people were killed. the killings that were going on in the congo were specially brutal. we're talking -- it is a world where war is increasingly associated with drones, smart bombs, and cyber attacks. at the war on civilians was carried out by militiamen wielding machetes, bows and arrows, and spears. it was as brutal as it was merciless and the militiamen children,king women, the elderly without compunction. amy: tell us some of the stories of the people you met with, the limbs beingheir chopped off. >> there are so many stories that stick with me, but one was a family who tried to flee an

attack on their village not far from the village we just saw inn the clipip. the family was confronted by these militiamen on the way out of town. what are family members, a mother and three children, were killed during this. an 11-year-old girl, the oldest daughter in the family, was attacked and she was cut several times, including militiamen cut off one of her hands. me shee up and she told saw bodies scattered all around, including her mother. she went over to her mother and found her young sister, a 2-year-old, had been gravely wounded but was still alive. offtook a piece of fabric of her mother's body, wrapped up her sister onto hers but -- under back and went to fight her father and brought help to him first of other men who had fled the village had come back. she brought the memeant to him d

it saved all of their lives. amy: i want to go back to vice news correspondent aris roussini. he visited an overcrowded refugee camp, which is home to thousands of people, mostly hema who fled from lendu attackers. who bear with families some of the most b brutal injuries.. can you tell me e what happenedo you? >> thehey killed my wife a and e children. they started to cut me witith a machete in the child who was in my hand. >> his two-year-old daughter now has permanent scscars to her fae and skull. >> we were being chased. >> the older sister from 11-year-old, watched her pregnant mother get hacked to death. >> i stotopped when i saw they were cutting my momother. but when they saw i stopped,

they started cutting me, too. that is how they cut my hand. there still a war, i cannot go backck home. amy: that report from vice news. nick turse? >> that was the family i was speaking of. grace saved her entire family and found a young boy who was gravely wounded wandering. she told me there were others she could not say. she saw a boy who both of his legs were cut off and she said she wanted to help, but she knew there was nothing she could do. these stories, i was told again and again, village after village. it is incredibly violent. amy: what does this have to do with u.s. policy? >> experts i talked to said u.s. policy exacerbated this ethnic cleansing campaign. 2017, u.s. ambassssador to the united nations nikki haley pushed for and won dramatic cuts

to the u.n. peacekeeping budget. she took to twitter afterwards to celebrate having cut half a billion dollars from peacekeeeeping efffforts and sa, this was onlnly the beginnnning. amy: limiter and two nikki haley speaking earlier this year. >> peacekeeping is a shared possibility with shared responsibility comes shared burdens and shared cost. one country should not shoulder more than one quarter o of the u.n. peacekeeping budgdget, ande look forward to morere equitable distribution of the budget among member states. moving forward, the united states will not pay more than 25% of the peacekeeping budget. this is a cap required by u.s. law. amy: that is nikki haley. severe, buts were even u.n. officials i talked to

an outside experts said they were manageable if they were done with some sort of orderly process. but the ununited states push for these cuts to be very severe and very fast. because of that, the u.n. peacekekeeping mission, i wass told, had to move its forces and close down bases in a very haphazard fashion. that this had to be done very fast. because of this, bases were shut down in ituri province just for the violence broke out. the people i talk to, the experts said this hamper the response, ththat there could've been a faster u.n. response. i should mention these attackeks were armed with trtraditional weweapons ,axes, arrows, machet. u.n. peacekeepers are armed with modernrn automatic weapons. people said if there was a robust peacekeeping -- they could've saved lives because the attackers would not of been able to statand up to them. amy: who supports this overall u.n. peacekeeping force called

monusco? largeusco is supported in part of the united states, but other members of the international community also contribute to this force. it was the u.s. that led the charge to cut the budget must they said it was bloated and said this was part of the america first agenda, that america should not be shouldering this type of financial burden. amy: i mean, you think back to the history of the congo over a century ago, when the belgian king leopold considered it his private seized him and killed .ell over 10 million congolese the symbol of that time, the cutting off of hands. >> you are seeing that more than a century later at the same type andiolence being meted out back then, the united states was the first country in the world to rececognize leopold's claim n the congo and supported his efforts.

i could not help but see some sort of symmetry in that. amy: so what are people ththere calling for right now? and if y you could place not ony for us withinince congo, but democratic republic of congo within africa, geopolitically, and it's enough against? >> sure. the congo is a huge country. it is about the size of western europe. it is massive. amy: all of western europe. >> all of western europe would fit inside the democratic republic of congo. it is in the heart of africa. tremendously large place. gdp.country in terms of not poor when you look at the resources under the ground. there is $24 trillion for the mineral wealth beneath the ground in congo. there is always a lot of multinational corporations interested in getting into congo, but congo has been don't leavears who

power anand recurrent violence over the years. amy: at this point, your work in africa has gone on for years. you wrote a book about south sudan. you have written aboutut in the last year the u.s. presence in africa overall. can you talk about that, even as it cutss aid t to the u.n. peacekeeping forces? >> the united states has a robust military presence across the continental's to it looks like it may be scaled back in the coming months as the u.s. pivots more towards your competitors like russia and just but actually i checked in with your special operations command and the number of commandos operating in africa is the same as it was last year. durbin talks about cuts, but we have not seen them yet. -- there have been talks about cuts, but we're not seen them yet. u.s. has this presence. the idea behind it is

counterterrorism. they have not been all that successful. there is a proliferation of terror groups across the continent. missions have not been as successful. the u.s. just a couple of years ago was heavily resistance army after close to $1 billion spent, the u.s. was unable to capture or kill him. the u.s. presence -- amy: you have written in your previous work, more u.s. commanders are deployed to africa than any other region in the world except to the middle east. >> that's righght. it is been rapid growth since 9/11. at that time, about 1% of u.s. commandos deployed overseas s or in africa. and now it is running about 16%, more than any place other than the war zones and the greater middle east. amy: from your travels, what do

you think needs to be done right now in the drc? >> is humanitarian aid that people are asking for. it wasn't just these u.n. peacekeeping cuts i caused a tremendous amount of suffering. international aid to congo has been dropping precipitously over the last years. if you look at last year's syrian inhe average need of humanitarian assistance received $305. the average congolese received about $62. i don't begrudge syrians in need any amount of money, but there's a real disparity there. experts said people just don't care about the congo. amy: nick turse, thank you for being there and reporting this horrific story. nick turse, vice news contributor and author. his latest article is titled "a slaughter in silence: how a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in drc was made worse by trump's america first policies and the world's neglect." he is also the author of the book, "next time they'll come to

count the dead: war and survival in south sudan." this is democracy now! the mexican back up journalist seeking political asylum in the united states is freed by court order after seven months in a detention center with his son. he will speak to us live from el paso. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: "freedom is free" by chicano batman. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we now go to texas, where mexican journalist emilio gutierrez soto and his son oscar have been released from ice detention after being jailed for seven months. gutierrez first sought asylum in the united states in 2008 after receiving death threats for reporting on alleged corruption in the mexican military. he was detained in december, only weeks after he criticized u.s. asylum policy during a speech at the national press club. the federal judge who ordered his release question whether the trump administration's detention of emilio gutierrez soto and his son oscar violated his first amendment rights. well, on wednesday, i spoke with

emilio gutierrez soto in el paso , texas, and began by asking him how it felt to be free. >> thank you for this invitation. having beenle weird seven months and some days at the ice concentration camp. unusual the way life and that concentration camp is extremely harsh. what the immigration authorities seek is to finish you off psychologically. and we are trying to resume our lives in liberty. in semi-liberty, practically. because we continue to be supervised by the immigration authority -- in this case, internal security through ice. amy: can you describe the

conditions you are held in? were you held together with your oscar, your son? >> yes. my son and i since we entered the concentration camp, we were always together in the same facility. place areions in that truly denigrating. day after day, we need to deal with her confront secured officers hired by private company -- security officers hired by a private company and like the basic ethical concepts when it comes to respecting human rights. we have had to confront situation where there is some presumed food, which was really practically garbage. in addition to being enclosed where the barracks were within have sanitary services and a shower or toilet and shower,

which causes constant contamination when it comes to internal development or any thought of pursuing intellectual development or of any sort of mental reflection in these places. these are really places in which, as there is an effort to havely destroy those who the misfortune of reaching those places, destroying them psychologically and physically. amy: can you talk about why you were jailed in decemember? you had just been honored in washington, d.c. -- in fact, i want to turn to your speech in october at the national press club as you accepepted the national press club's press freedom award on behalf of mexico's journalists. this is what you said. is a constant suffering and source of pain for our families.

lady impunity has not let go of our hand. while 80 justice prostitutes herself -- lady justice prostitutes herself in the face of government. to again kill the freedom of , those who seek political asylum in countries like this, like the united we encounter the decisions of immigration authorities.

away theer international laws. you,so, emilio, that is emilio gutierrez sotoo, receivig an honor from the national press club in october. you were then detained in december. the you believe there was a connection between the two events? >> i think so. it has been quite clear that recognitioning the had at importance, we supervisory contact visit from they put theiately handcuffs on us, took our photographs, and practically took us a few meters from the international border. the argument being we were being

was alreadyn there a motion before the court of appeals in order to stop such a deportation so that we could continue our proceeding in liberty. what was attempted on that occasion was, once again, to cut short or to cut off my freedom of expression, a freedom which i have continued to exercise in mexico and in the united states. i believe the work of journalists is to speak the truth, to act with the truth, and especially to cast light on the truth. those who listen to us on the radio, who watches on television, we journalists have a major commitment all around the world to do the best we can carrying out our job honestly. i think it was one more reprisal on the part of ice after having continued in an asylum request

process for 10 years, ours has been the longest, most run out, most tedious asylum process and in particular, the one we are put forth, the most evidence over the immigration judge that we did not come to the u.s. looking for a green card. we came to save our lives. the lives which the mexican state turned out to not be important. so important is the work of journalists then in mexico, for the mexican authorities, that we have more than 112 five journalists who have been assassinated -- 125 journalists who have been assassinated. there is total impunity, both in mymy home state as well as throughout the country. i feel that it was a major reprisal by the united states government on speaking out and lawnding that internatioional

in which political asylum be respected. these are laws the united states has reclaimed. to be accepted in other countries, but cannot be accepted as a moral claim or protest that in this country, the uniteted states. amy: you have been detained during this historic period of the trump administration, imposing what he calls zero-tolerance policy. children weres of taken from their parents at the , still hundreds of them, if not over 1000, have not been returned to them. parents either deported or send to 17 different states -- we don't know how many states children were sent to. you were watching this from your own detention. were parents and children coming into the detention facility, the jail, you were in?

and what were your thoughts as a journalist and as a human being watching all of this unfold from behind bars? well, it is something that i feel extreremely sensitive abou. 10 years ago, my son and i came firsthis country and the i found myself before an immigration officer when they asked us what we had with us. i said we had fear. after having been in a freezer room all day long under conditions below freezing, my son and i were transferred to a toson and i was transferred another prison in el paso, texas. we were separated, my son and i. my son at the time in

adolescent. -- my son, at the time, an adolescent. how mybeen able to see pain of seeinge how his father was separated. the only moral support that he had in his l life. now once again shared the intense pain that affects thousands of families that have been separated by a stupid policy am a criminal policy. that is being used against families. all they are seeking is just a grain of justice, the justice tonight in our country because of the predatory policies that began in this country.

tototally -- itit is a total aberraration that t the unit isy come a christian country that is authorities have no idea whatsoever of what christianity is, of what t it means to loveve your fellow human beings. the separation of families is an aberraration. we and my son, we experienced that wrenching experience e durg a seven-month period during 2008. amy: emilio, now you are free and you have been offered a fellowship at the university of michigan. are you able to go to michigan from texas? will you be able to go to school? is your son going with you? >> we are hoping that the -- myation authorities

son and myself, we are a family. and we have every intention to get to michigan. we hope that in coming days, the immigration authorities, particularly ice, will return ourselves a security cards and the other documents that they confiscated from us that they did not give us a week ago. we hope with that, we will be able to travel to michigan and take advantage of this life opportunity and take advantage of this educational opportunity. , become fullye engaged once again in u.s. society. amy: you were also in detention through the historic election of amlo, who will be the next president of mexico. , theafter he was elected head of homeland security,

kristen nielsen, the secretary of state pompeo, the senior advisor to trump his s son-in-lw jared kushner, always down to meet with the president elect, with amlo. can you talk about his election and also what you see will foren and what this means u.s.-mexico relations? mexico through amlo, well, i have followed his political history. i have closely identified with them in terms of the social policies that he has proposed. i believe that mexico is going to draw a clear line, vis-a-vis, what trump wants and what we need to do with mexico. mexico in recent years has practically been supervised and

of the united states. i think that is going to change. even though trump has had some ideas in those approaches to lopezs over, i believe obrador, because of the social support that he is had through the ballot box, is going to be obligated to follow through with the country in respect of things which have been denied to us. i'm speaking specifically of social justice. there is a tremendous debt in terms of security, huge debt in .erms of health, education and i think we're going to begin there. and among other important things , our energy resources, which have been practically given away two countries like the united states and canada through the

north american free trade agreement. reclaim ourneed to oil, our electricity, our hydrological resources, and especially our mining. mining practically has been turned over totally to canadian interests. we need to negotiate that. i thinkamlo, lopez over door, i said those goals clearly and he needs to -- he has offer that. amy: the number of journalists to have been killed in mexico since you were detained, i think the number now is eight, facealists gunned down who the fate that you were afraid of if you were deported to mexico. can you comment on the level of violence in mexico and what you think needs to happen to address this? the violence and mexico is

brought about by a drurunk president, felipipe calderon, ad then there was a corrupt .residenent enrique e pena nieto they''ve notot hadhe i inttion f offering any justice whatsoeoev. impunity is what has the company journalists throughout this time -- accompanied journalists throughout this time. we were about to be depoported. with t that, it is practicalally turning this over to those who are working for me -- looking for me to kill me, which is the mexican army. pasoexican consulate in el is an agency that is totally at the service of ice. it does not protect the interests of mexicans at all. and so takes great pleasure in being dished the field director of ice.

continue being aliens for those who are in charge of the consulate. and the consulate obviously works with immigration services of mexico and the customs services of mexico, which are mostly in the hands of military officers. we were about to be put in the hands of our executioners with the not of the consulate. this is sometetng which has cost me personally great fear because i was practically -- the life of my son was practically being put in the hands of the mexican army from a life which has nothing to do with the work that i've done over many years in mexico in my work as a journanalist. amy: finally, emilio, what message do you have for people outside ofof detention cenrs? what should we understand about what is going on in the detention centers, what you call the concentration camps of the united states?

need toieve that we become more aware and to implement christian values above all else, which has been the foundation of both regulations and conduct of the nation. such a moral commitment on our part, particularly my son and myself, to raise awareness and foster greater solidarity among human beings as a way of , ourgthening our peoples education, and our social conduct. we have a lot of work to do still with churches, with with all of society in general. we have that commitment and we intend to do so with whoever

wishes to listen to this voice that speaks out as a form of free expression. amy: award-winning mexican journalist emilio gutierrez soto . he is just then released from son afterion from his being detained for seven months. he is been awarded a fellowship at the university of michigan and plans to move to ann arbor next month with his son. he can only go if ice returns his documents. when we come back, we go to north dakota were the body of native american mother of five ololivia lone bear has beenound in the bottom of the lake near her r home after a nine-month seararch. ♪ [music break]

amy: "remember me" by red fawn featuring randy wood and r. carlos nakai. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show in north dakota, where after a nine-month search, the body of olivia lone

bear was found on tuesday in a pickup truck submerged in lake sakakawea on the fort berthold reservation. the mother of five went missing in late in new town, north october dakota. her disappearance has sparked renewed attention to the disproportionately high rates of disappearance, rape, and murder native american women face across the united states, particularly in areas of oil extraction, like north dakota's bakken shale, which is the origin point for the dakota access pipeline. for more, we speak with her brother, matthew lone bear, who spent the last nine months searching for his sister. he joins us by telephone from new town, north dakota. and we go to tulsa, oklahoma, to speak with mary kathryn nagle, a citizen of cherokee nation and a partner at pipestem law, p.c., a law firm dedicated to the restoration of triribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. we welcome you both to democracy now! matt, , i want to begin with yo. our condolences to your family on the death of your sister olivia lone bear.

can yoyou talk about how she was found in this submerged truck right near her home? >> as far as what we were told by law enforcement, williams in andsent some divers then i got a text message saying they were hooking up something in the water. that is when i got there. as far as getting a debriefing the police department or anything like that, we still have not gotten any word exactly however thing went down. amy: the reaction of your family to the discovery of olivia's body? the police department or anything like that, we still have not gotten>> heartbreaking. after nine months of looking on a reservation, it is almost a million acres, and then come to find out that we've been pushing for this water search since

november and lo and behold, she was found within a mile of her home. amy: what do mean you are pushing? who were you pushing to do the search of the lake? >> lead law enforcement was trouble pd in the beginning -- tribal pd in the beginning and the bureau of indian affairs to go over. then we have the state's office involved. boat -- they have both to do it? pd has our owntribal those available. none of them got on the water. amy: why wasn't it done until now? when they did it, they found her almost immediately. >> there's so much red tape that went on. right to the end. we had trouble pd and bia

pointing figures, who is going to do the water search? they said as soon as the water thaws out, we will search the water 100%, which is a lot of water, but then the us for three months down the road and they still had no boats in the water. accountabilitye at that point. in a thick anyone wants to take accountability for all of that water search. -- i don't think anyone wants to take accountability for all of that water search. as a family, we did what we could for the land search. we don't have the resources to do a water search. we relied on law-enforcement agencies to do this. amy: do you feel they made the search of your sister olivia lone beaear a priority? they did.on't think bright for the end, too, our bia agents, it was kind of a revolving door for the last month and a half to two months. agents come in for seven days and leave.

two weeks and leave. learn, seven months, eight months of a case in two weeks time or a weeks time. it kind of showed us what kind of priority we were a step we were never told how long they were going to be there or anything like that. total confusion at the end. amy: i want to bring mary kathryn nagle into this conversation. your citizen of cherokee nation, with the pipestem law firm. can you talk about the broader issue of missing indigenous women around the country? >> thank you. first, i want to say, matthew, i am so sorry for your loss and your families loss. theow this is not resolution that anyone hoped for, but unfortunately, in indian country, in some reservations, our women are murdered at rates 10 times the national average.

the rates of violence whether you're talking about just domestic violence or sexual violence, are incredibly high. the rates of murder and the rates at which our women go missing are even higher. that has been documented by the department of justice, the u.s. attorneys, united states for surely, are, starting to propose legislation to deal with the crisis. but it is nothing less than a crisis when you think about the numbers in the percentages at which our women go missing and murdered. amy: mary kathryn nagle, can you address the issue of jurisdiction? who investigates this? >> you can see here just how problematic it is when our own police don't know if that jurisdiction. i can't speak to all of the decisions that were made on the ground here, but i can say in 1978, the u.s. supreme court stripped our nations of our inherent criminal jurisdiction over anyone who comes onto our

land and commits crimes. that means today when a woman goes missing, if a native woman goes missing, her tribal government cannot exercise any kind of police jurisdiction over that crime unless the government knows that the perpetrator was native. that is because the supreme court says we don't have jurisdiction over non-native to come out to -- come onto our lives that kill our women or hildren. depending on the circumstances, efforts like him the legal frame work around this has become incredibly complicated. there have been pieces of jurisdiction that have been nations.to tribal the 2013 real authorization of the violence against women act, one peace was restored and that is jurisdiction over domestic violence posted if not indian commits a domestic violence crime, tribal missions can prosecute that. however, murder was not restored. sex trafficking is another crime that our women suffer a

disproportionate rates. if the perpetrator is believed to be non-native or if the tribal police cannot know with any kind of certainty that the perpetrator is native, under federal law, they likely do not have jurisdiction to even arrest, let alone prosecute, these crimes. amy: is this a particular issue in areas of extraction like oil extraction, like we see in the case of olivia lone bear? >> it is. has been a lot of research to document and study that. in fact, even the department of justice office on violence against women recently gave out federal grant funding from the violence against women act to different domestic violence programs around the country -- native and non-native. but in a recent proclamation that they're putting out different grants, they noted the increasingly high roots of violence and sex trafficking and domestic violence in the balkken with the increase in oil production of the allocated millions of extra dollars to

resolve programs in the bakken of a recognition the rates are becoming sure nearly high. -- to the senator from have spoken out about the increased rates of violence as well as former u.s. attorneys. it is not that difficult to wrap your brain around when you think about the fact that if you look at the bakken, and this is true of any area you have a rapid increase of extractive industries on tribal lands because you have a situation where the travel nation has been stripped of its jurisdiction and areinstance in thebakken from 2009 untitil now, there ben more than 100,000 new workers who proves they did not live in bakkenakota or the who've come tos work in the main camps. they bring increased rates of crime a and one of them i is domestic violence and sexual assault. it certainly overwhelms the law-enforcement on the ground.

it when you compact that with the fact that often are troubled nations are without jurisdiction based on the identity of the perpetrator got a really great the crisis. amy: mary kathryn nagle and matt lone bearçç??

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