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From: "Wilson, Glenn M." <WilsonG@nima.mil>
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Subject: Let me see if I understand this....
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:54:21 -0500
Message-ID: <2104F001CD90D51194160008C7866B7501157675@stlx01.nima.mil>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1886000/18862
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Thursday, 21 March, 2002, 19:00 GMT 
	      Aborigine demands right to
	      spear officer
						    
	      Mr Bloomfield says the Aboriginal ceremony was defiled

	      By Phil Mercer 
	      BBC reporter in Sydney 

	      An Aboriginal activist is seeking permission from
	      Australia's High Court to spear a senior police officer
	      to death because he desecrated a sacred fire. 

	      It follows an incident last
	      year, when the police filed
	      a writ to the court,
	      ordering a group of
	      Aborigines engaged in a
	      religious ceremony in the
	      capital, Canberra, to
	      extinguish their fire. 

	      Indigenous campaigner
	      Darren Bloomfield has
	      claimed the senior officer
	      in charge "has incurred
	      the death penalty under
	      Aboriginal law". 

	      A police investigation into the incident at the
	      Aborigines' so-called "tent embassy" on the lawns of
	      the Old Parliament House is under way. 

	      Confrontation 

	      The confrontation between Australian Federal police
	      and Aboriginal activists took place during a religious
	      ceremony at the makeshift camp last July. 

	      The tent embassy was established 30 years ago to
	      highlight indigenous land claims and to further the
	      campaign for a treaty to end discrimination with white
	      Australia. 

	      In a writ before the High Court, Darren Bloomfield, who
	      describes himself as an Aboriginal "warrior", alleges
	      Detective Superintendent Brian Hepworth "desecrated
	      a fire ceremony for peace and justice" by demanding
	      the flames be extinguished. 

	      Mr Bloomfield said the Detective Superintendent
	      should be charged and tried under what he called
	      white law and then handed over to his people where he
	      would face swift indigenous justice and be speared to
	      death. 

	      Determination 

	      However extreme these demands are, Mr Bloomfield
	      has insisted he is serious and intends to see justice
	      done. 

	      A police spokeswoman said the allegations against
	      the officer were being investigated. 

	      She said Mr Hepworth was a highly respected
	      member of the Australian Federal Police force and had
	      been for more than 30 years. 
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