Everyone my name is made by you as mel and i have d. V. R. You towards each you channel. We have all four seasons we have all the stories. Move to tournaments and go on with this huge challenge about what you should better check it out yourself. As a how do you use the soldiers destroyed my banana and coffee bean fields. They took all my livestock and destroyed all my buildings i lost everything. I mean a double cuz so much a small farmer from uganda is haunted by his familys violent addiction from their home. Town but first i thought that war had broken out then we heard that a white man wanted to grow coffee beans there. The man the customers are talking about lives in hamburg and is the owner of a coffee empire michael i know him and is the worlds leading importer of unroasted coffee beans. This is what happened when he set up a plantation in uganda. Weve come to me in southwestern uganda its a fertile region thats home to Small Farmers who grow bananas avocados pineapple and above all coffee beans. The climate is perfect for coffee which is why in the year two thousand and one the newman coffee group decided to establish a new plantation in the area. The ugandan government found the perfect site but the land was already occupied. Hunts fessler from switzerland is the plantations manager hes overseen it right from its inception. You could see that there were settlements and fields scattered across the land we knew people were here. On. The Small Farmers had been living there for a long time some for generations and had a claim to the land but their rights were ignored. To were not a model car to city if he washed as a military vehicle full of soldiers came over and then second vehicle the civilians were in a war no uniforms and were with cudgels and sticks. They ran from house to house yelling everyone out immediately well no because of the larger. The crying of the room with. No film footage. Ists of people being driven out of movie ended. But such accounts square with what has happened in other parts of uganda thanks for talking to. Anyone who tried to get there were long lines from their homes was beaten with sticks. Of the children were afraid and ran away in every direction. Some people tried to save their goats and other belongings but they didnt know how they had to leave their chickens behind to. Then they set fire to my beehives and my house. Thank the soldiers burnt down whole villages and pillaged livestock and food supplies. I was able to save this photo i had it in my pocket when they drove us away and were standing in front of my house i had the photo taken earlier. The only thing i was able to say from the house was this radio to him when his wife betty lived with her parents back then she says that her mother begged the soldiers who were stealing their livestock to leave them at least one cow but theyd be turned stad how do. They demolished houses with a bulldozer. My father was hit with stones when we tried to get him out of the house. He survived for three days. When he died. Betty in good beer as mother also died two months later of injuries suffered from blows to her kidneys. God and after that we camped out under trees. They gave us about us for food but sometimes there was nothing to eat. And there were six of us children we were so hungry that the two youngest ones died. Then there were only four of us. Like many of those driven from their homes but he now has no choice but to work on the plantation theres no other work. Or life today isnt very nice every time i work at the plantation and come to the place where we used to live i have to cry why did. You i mean a double because so much family also used to be able to make ends meet but they lost everything when they were evicted. Was going to know the soldiers came with a backhoe and destroyed everything because they tore our house down to as we were fleeing good news that we. Land grabs are a huge problem in africa Small Farmers ownership of their properties is seldom officially registered how again why i mean is. This. Going to first night we tried to return to our village and salvage whatever we could from our houses were never good at the soldiers kept shooting. None of us dared to return again. This photo is all that remains from better days in the past. Where young understood that it was very difficult to feed a family we didnt have any blankets and we didnt have enough to eat. One of my children dying at the age of only seven to the end quote. Did the normal and coffee group know what was going on. The show and also news i think that not everything went the way it should have certainly pressure was exerted but i think its possible that the army which was already present here intervened with the really possible its hard to imagine the company knew nothing of the many people being driven from their homes to make room for the car where a Coffee Plantation. If you might know no one Firm Provides services and products along the whole value chain of green coffee production that we began farming with the intention of us stablish ing environmentally renewable plantations in all senses of that term. Bio corridors were set up to protect wildlife diversity on this model farm. Environmental sustainability is one of the newman coffee groups major selling points. No human coffee group is located in the upscale Port District in hamburg it controls ten percent of the worlds raw Coffee Market and supplies some of germanys best known brands it has forty six subsidiaries in twenty eight countries and did two point seven billion dollars in business in twenty fourteen. The name newman appears everywhere in the coffee sector. Peter k. Year has taken on the Corporate Giant in uganda the former School Director is the spokesman for people driven from their homes and move ending thing or those other avenues broke you must see that hes now its due ive made it ease the court to get back. The new im on firm claims only fifty families used to live on a plantation land. He said of our car i arrived a few days later and i noticed that something had gone on i must have been pretty harsh with two thousand people there were never two thousand People Living here right house and like housing or. Filed a complaint on behalf of all the people addicted from their homes four thousand people from four villages he says. But some people are saying that the poor people like we could not take the government to court so he refused to just how we me but i heard yesterday two thousand and four to one people. The dispossessed were helped by the Human Rights Organization food first information and Actions Network or fear on. The contrary plantation is one of the first cases of land grabbing thats well documented. Multinational corporations im governments are taking peoples land away to produce goods for export. Gertrud func has been helping the dispossessed since two thousand and three and is regularly in uganda. And supports peoples right to feed themselves in the case of the career the plantation the ugandan government with support from the Norman Company clearly violated this right by their land was taken from the local populace and they couldnt feed themselves. Some of the dispossessed come together in the Village School there hoping for some good news in the conflict which has been going on for ten years. The lawyers from feehan International Say the ugandan government is responsible as well. Your government government. Laws in the constitution is very clear. People have the right to say. So once they said they have rights. These people. Bonafide. The owner of the land accepted that these people. Believe there for a long time. The fee and representatives are trying to arrange a meeting with the german ambassador to uganda. The ambassador should help us get out of this miserable situation and. He should talk to those responsible they should compensate us and give us our land back. When they reach in the book. To them for those whose interview. They just without coffee. With. Other people are being miners weve got one here by the way we dont have great we dont have. Yet taken over put these on for nothing. Some of the School Furniture raids donated by cohen. Newman highlights its support for the new school what the company doesnt say is that it converted the old one into plantation offices and that children had to go without instruction for a year. This is an unending ten day shes eighty three years old she lived here all of her life until she was driven from her home. All she has left is a small plot of land where she lives with her daughters and grandchildren and i used to own six houses more than one hundred animals and forty two hectares of land. Then on august eighteenth two thousand and one the soldiers came. Over you you know i lay burned on the stall woman goats were. Only the goats were all burnt to death. Its dreadful. I cant help crying when i think of it. You know were much bigger were not going after that i had to come power under the trees i had nothing to go with b. I put a straw mat on the ground and leaned up against a tree i couldnt sleep the soldiers kept moving around circling us and i patrolled here for five days but. This land belongs to me i inherited it from my father. You know these papers prove that my father bought this land did. You know he was alive back then he signed these papers and nine hundred sixty four. Even now. The documents also show that i know his land doesnt belong to the plantations block ninety nine its part of block one o three. As they was a very land known as block an itemised where pressed. On the local one hundred dollars street it is not just you know if you missed it because theres actually a pool. Square mouth this map you see is content and then every such report by market or university they hide it that part of the plantation yet it is part of local one hundred industries and this is an official map from the department of land and some very. Reads shows you the boundaries of the land you say is it is so sure that stones which we abided inside the city by the subway as limited a boundary so it can be brought in. Another village or also has a receipt for the purchase of the land that was stolen from him these are my. Wishes. That all of the land owns. One hundred fifty but afterwards they would you want you to prove that that. This area was resort of eighteen twenty twelve and the surveyor said the boundaries were correct but downs remain what about an as deed in title. Peter k. Year i is taking some visitors through the two thousand five hundred hectare plantation ugandas biggest and most modern this is a public road but theres a checkpoint at every crossing. Peter says its painful to pass by the plot of land that used to belong to him. Ever since two thousand and two hes been trying to get the dispossessed to sue the ugandan government and kaleri plantation. We were one of the oldest balinese in this land it is my great grandfather who had a settled in his hands. This is where my home used to be before the eviction so my house was this yesterday and this is michael michael. I had a something more than two thousand plants of course i was the person who was reading the people put a fuse to go then they wanted to they ordered it and the when they came to kill me but one of the soldiers was my friend. He said no should not die so i got a message so i ran out they want to twist their wife the wife run no they dont story the house i knew that every problem so i lost everything. Here into. The village of the dispossessed after the military drove them from their land many people fled into the woods and resettled near the plantation all they had over their heads were sheets of plastic there was no clean water or medical care some later build houses but other families still live in wretched conditions clay huts are all that many people have for shelter poverty and malnutrition are rife here. I used to have my own lands and we used to have enough to eat. I had my own home and livestock were safe and secure no much food today i have to rely on others help and become a refugee this indeed. You know they always say well be compensated and be given land elsewhere but were still waiting so far weve been given nothing. The government says these people have been compensated we meet up with the highest ranking Government Official in the area. Did. These families agreed. And they lifted the land. Willingly. So is the story of villagers being driven off their land a lie village elder patrick said watto recalls how white men arrived and some intent for a meeting going to. Went in my function as a village elder they said they were bringing progress to the village and promised that we would be compensated for our lost homes and property. And we would be given equally good land elsewhere. They said they were going to build new roads hospitals and water wells. And then you were going to they said we were going to live in a promised land. But as sure as im sitting here today those promises were never kept you know when you get it on t. V. Interview you not to be out to do the. John patrick can body is another village elder he says the dispossessed were given fifty thousand shillings compensation thirty euros going to pass and was being having. Have a house has been having i resign amours as being having all of that and you give to. These people who. Say that these were the complicity of many many of these do not read and write he did only wish you did this these forms were to the english. So you would come you. You wont get your money come on good you can when i see. The new im on company says the dispossessed were adequately compensated and that the process was correctly documented that on the on the safe the village elders signed the document so did lawyers for both the sellers and the state. We had no reason to question that and we still dont know kind of its rival. We had to the ugandan capital kampala to meet the villages attorney. He contradicts hans fassler he says people were coerced into signing the compensation documents. That is an assistant. Who was going around the villages. Escorted by army so yes forcing people to sign that he had been given land as well and that it been given the composition. The lawyer says newman employees were complicit in this process. After the of his opening day employees of the Coffee Plantation started cutting down over the crops coffee trees but in a plant and everything in the process of clearing the ground for them to start planting their coffee we stewed them because they were participating in the ice to a conviction and destruction of my. Property. So what did nine mine managers know about the militarys role in driving people from the land. Though. I can well imagine that they exerted pressure to move the resettlement and compensation process forward but we would have known about it if the army had moved in and started threatening people like you both. Whats clear is that on the eve of the evictions everyone concerned matter up including to know my managers. They were in that meeting when the representative of the government gave the evictees they are timid too they had to leave before eight. So there can be no sin in an innocent. The dispossessed have been waiting a long time for justice but they havent made any progress with their lawsuits against however a plantation and the ugandan state. And. The cooks and the state prosecutor have used every trick in the book to drag out the trial. And the Norman Company has done Everything Possible to slow things down. We urgently need legal avenues to see Companies Like this particularly in industrialized nations. Parent companies skim off the profits but theyre not held accountable when their subsidiaries violate the law. The tiny swiss canton of soup is almost six thousand kilometers away from banda it has the lowest tax rate in switzerland and is home to many multinational corporations and a number of newman owned companies they include Tropical Farm Management which runs the cohen plantation. We meet up with an expert who served as the president of this with coffee Dealers Association for fourteen years that knows what hes talking about. On the fish much tying in norman is giving the coffee industry a bad name the company should have it all up to what happened long ago and admitted that it made a mistake you have and i should have investigated how the land was truly obtained. And obviously its difficult to get established in countries like the us but you can do things the right way and yet so shameful for one of the worlds leading Coffee Companies to be involved in Something Like this in coffee. Dipped. Says what happened in new banda is widely known in the industry but its not discussed publicly he says others need to hold newman accountable. Diesel Industry Organization should have told norman a long time ago you are not allowed to use our labels anymore const label the. Vile getting in university in the netherlands un special rapporteur on the rights to food all of a dish attack is speaking to an International Conference he knows about move bending and questions newmans behavior this companies should become a customed to the new Corporate Culture that is now expected from from companies throughout the world and that Corporate Culture is one in which they should respect human rights by acting with Due Diligence to seek information about the impacts of the activities and if these impacts are negative they should remedy them. Uganda late march twenty thirty. A court issues a long awaited ruling finding that people were driven from their land and were bending it holds no im on partially responsible and awards damages of eleven Million Euros oddly newmans lawyers who were not named in the suit other ones ordered to pay the money still activists applaud the ruling. But this ruling is a milestone and dispossessed peoples battle for compensation its the first Court Decision at all in eleven years. The judge supported the view and arguments of the dispossessed he analyzed this case very carefully and was very fair and his argument as well. April twenty fourth teen we return to a bandaid its a year after the court ruling. No one has lodged an appeal and the dispossessed are still waiting for compensation. I mean a double cause so my had hoped the matter could be resolved quickly he wants to send his son area to university but he cant afford the fees. He says he could if his land had not been take. In a way. I still have hope. I hope that as long as the court hears our case and were able to defend ourselves then the truth will emerge year was. Even if it does take a long time and even if we have to continue waiting. The high court in kampala we have an appointment with the judge saying choudhry even before his ruling in the move enda case he was active in drawing attention to corruption in uganda. It is a wake up call so that there is the violation of human rights particularly in such cases where you know some people have been a victim from their homes i think it was incumbent upon them ensure that they did not move into the last. Until those people are relocated and until they were compensated they did not do that but they were quietly watching the drama knowing full well what was happening. For that is what i i had to make those harsh remarks because they had lost all sense of humanity. Peter kay your calls the ruling a belated acknowledgement about his own and other people suffering. When a warning that clears up that if people are very happy everyone who was there id be very did not think. That such just soso. Kiras served as the Spokes Person for the dispossessed for many years he was subject to slander and was imprisoned for five months on trumped up charges. When i was in a prison they sent three messages to me say that if i was reading a group that i had a sort of a company they also drop their case against him even now when i am moving i know that today out there is a very big following me but i have nothing to do i have nothing to give up. But although the court ruled in their favor the dispossessed are still fighting for justice. The appearance that their government should also be punished. Commanding the army. Newman says that the ruling is a cross miscarriage of justice which is why the company is also appealing but no one wants to talk in front of the camera newman prefers written statements. Newmans legal representative in kampala however is willing to be interviewed. He questions the judges competence and seeks to shift the blame for the evictions this in jail but him what is the people for purposes of extort somebody who had a Company Investment probably with an aim of getting some money which would be unjust enrichment. Im talking about peter. This is the real perpetrator masquerading as one of the victims kyra will later tell us that this is a lie intended to discredit him. He has. People that people will inflict any form of loud no they will not it is not doing the sit it by buying alternative land and the wheat. Alternative land. We meet up with a village elder at. The site where people were supposedly given comp and satori property but thirteen years on there is no sign of the promised houses roads or well the land wasnt even cleared were told so it was impossible for people to live here. Give them a. Three month they had to bribe the boers if it ever came so that the border did come. This land was only cleared recently and documents show that it could not have been given to the dispossessed villagers in two thousand and one because the state hadnt even bought it yet it only changed hands in two thousand and ten. The Radio Station heart f am is located on the outskirts of move day. Peter came here as a popular guest here hes often invited to talk about political topics today hes here to tell listeners about the issue closest to his heart there were banda case and to demand his rights under the ugandan land act. Then he makes his way again to kampala to consult with his attorney theres news and its not good another setback. We have a problem with oregon of course fires is reported missing we hope they are looking for it i have written several letters complaining about the loss of the. It takes six months for the files containing around four thousand pages to reappear k. Year and his attorneys say that this is another attempt to stall the case this should be a lesson to government and Foreign Investors that however much we want investment we must respect rights sherman rice. Ugandans. Back in the bend guards have stepped up their surveillance at the checkpoints even though this is a public road. The following day our camera team is threatened. Well be thrown in jail and our footage will be confiscated were told because we film the plantations office from the road. Three thousand five hundred tons of coffee beans are harvested every year on the plantation tells us some of them go to germany. Day laborers lined the road they earn an average of one euro per day they say that places them just above the absolute Poverty Level as defined by the world bank. They refused to raise our pay. What they did we get very little to wait for just enough to keep us from starving. Everything and it has to last us until the following evening. Theres nothing to eat during the day only in the evening. Just me on the site over there on bare metal there are no mattresses or months. In the meantime another year has gone by the dispossessed who had hoped for a quick settlement are angry and disappointed. Spring twenty fifteen hamburg peter kay euro is once again trying to advance the victims cause. No one cares at the beginning of this the plantation stay there for Something Like four weeks but did not take an initiative to talk to the community or talk to me what that plan about it. Was what it is like a new sort of be an opportune time because they have always say they want oh. Ok youre a try to arrange a meeting with the head of the company but received no answer. Some day theyll have to talk to us he says. They cant refuse forever. A few days later in geneva the seat at the second largest United Nations office after its headquarters in new york. Gertrude fog and peter are attending a meeting of the un committee on economic social and cultural rights. Its scheduled to take up the case of move ended this week i believe is the International Level we have been able to reach there because when you speak it down or in agendas are very good people cannot understand that might get to geneva but now im there. Feehan is accredited at the un so it can help the victims make their case thats one of the main things her organization does says gertrude fog. The Committee Meets in the venerable punny wilson the next session is devoted to human rights in uganda n. G. O. S are getting prepared. The committees now work you know general home and on the First National conference he says youre. Going to be a good example of why this is. The committees mandate is to ensure that peoples economic social and cultural rights are respected it collects information both from governments and nongovernmental groups sheehan and peter k. Year i have submitted testimony. Hold their commutes men bus that addiction was brutal and there was no compensation given the victim did not have to for survival and the conditions of living are growing. Every day. They must make a recommendation for a restoration of our law on the caused his own women is of survival we can have. No we have high hopes from the committee which makes recommendations to the ugandan government and can put the state under pressure to act it so hunger. We want the dispossessed Peoples Court case to proceed but even through an end for a solution to be finally found. This problems heard. Later the final report to the committee will call upon the ugandan government to restore the villagers land as soon as possible. Back in uganda there is a new development in july twenty fifteen an Appeals Court overturns the judges ruling and sends the case back to the High Court AttorneyJoseph Bonnie condemned the says that land cases take a long time in uganda but rarely as long as this. This case has been delayed for a number of reasons some of it is it would be. Pressure. From outside with you could go to political because the government is being embarrassed by this case. Compound august twenty sixth seen. Its the fifteenth anniversary of the evictions beefy un workers have returned to uganda to mark the occasion and help the victims when they would want something. At a press conference in kampala peter cave here i tells reporters about a new attempt being made to divide the dispossessed some people have been promised financial compensation if they renounce their claims to land. Is not written in this. It is only. What you have always been claiming that the people we were north. His hopes have been boosted by the discovery of a map showing that the plantation simply annexed a part of block one of three when they camped here instead of going northwards like these very subway eight thousand is so words through here go away here like this you have what we grab all these beasts. We were trying to can gaze down how have things developed in the past two years have the Living Conditions of the dispossessed improved. Its the rainy season and the going is tough. But i. Can gaze down. At first glance there are a few people peddling wares and more small shops but otherwise little has changed fifteen years on from the evictions. The german activists are particularly interested this time around in the situation of dispossessed women and children. They are still waiting for justice to be done. But even on the dispossessed sued in august two thousand and two and fourteen years later and august two thousand and sixteen theres still be no final ruling in the case and you can only call this a denial of justice and legal protection. Gertrude fall began researching the situation of women among dispossessed families eighteen months ago the results of her investigation are shocking despite claims that people would be better off the plantations impact has been overwhelmingly negative anyone who could has moved away those left behind are mostly children and the elderly they didnt support sort of a cleaning and. Living conditions are catastrophic have gotten worse in the past few years id say people have no land to grow crops on so they are hungry as a result children either dont. Go to school or are unable to concentrate if they do. That the number of girls getting pregnant at the age of thirteen or fourteen has increased enormously. And many of the girls are infected with hiv. With high flow in. Mind many families can only afford one meal a day these women tell us. And they need to be on their guard to avoid having it stolen mighty underpaid plantation markers. In partnership with a cow where a plantation it says at the entrance to the local school. Valentijn had is trying to collect information about the children of the dispossessed. The boy say his friend is no longer in the school because the chorus cut off for the school fees and that boy is walking the cow at a Coffee Plantation. After fifteen years of this forced evictions the suffering is really going on in this community and you can see it through the kids. A sobering conclusion. And yet people here still havent given up hope that justice will someday be served. On the outskirts of gays and the community has built a new church. Peter k. Year has called a meeting to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the evictions everyone in the village not just the dispossessed has come to you the latest about the court case. How bernie has. But they have been over lining and been running to still continue what many people have longed for me as i also learned from other friends and organizations so many people are taking up their cases now to court they did not know that it could happen. There have been repeated attempts from the outside to quash the resistance and can gays are ok us says bribes have been offered corruption is rampant in uganda including in the government. A total ill make them bring back what they have destroyed that is the promise i made was the people and i will never broke that promise. Ill never betray the people thats the only grave the glaring factor in my heart. Peter kay your ass shows people his map this new piece of evidence stirs their hopes. People still believe that their cause will triumph. 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