COMPARATIVE TABLE OF COMPENSATIONS - part 3

Compensation proposals may not always have proven satisfactory to the survivors and families of victims, in any case governments have shown in principle a degree of “remorse” in their willingness demonstrated in harnessing a  series of measurable means for financial and social repairs and bring to justice the perpetrators, as and when possible, promptly or long after the reprehensive acts have taken place.

“It is rare for indigenous people in Latin America to be awarded compensation for damage to their ancestral lands. From northern Mexico to the southern tip of Chile, it's more usual for commercial interests to get their own way when it comes to development projects affecting indigenous people or their territories.” www.guardian.co.uk

On December 8, 2009 The Obama administration announced a $3.4 billion settlement in a 13-year-old legal battle over the Interior Department's mismanagement of land trust accounts for American Indians, to be approved in court. www.nytimes.com