Fra US Senate Commitee on Enviroment and Public Works

Consider that in Uganda, 20,000 farmers were brutally kicked off their lands to allow a British company to plant trees for carbon credits.  This news, by the way, comes from a recent report issued by Oxfam - by no means a conservative organization. Oxfam tells us that armed guards burned houses to the ground, which, at least in one case, resulted in the death of a child.  According to one victim who was interviewed by Oxfam investigators, her family was beaten by soldiers and no longer has enough food to eat.

In Honduras, a United Nations sanctioned industry stole farmland and murdered 23 farmers and their families between January 2010 and March 2011. This is according to a report by the International Fact-Finding Mission that was presented to the European Parliament.  Private security guards employed by this industry were reported to be directly involved, feigning accidents and shooting farmers.