Thus. according to evidence given last November on the rights of Indians in the Americas before the Fourth Russell Tribunal, the process of imposing alien concepts on the native peoples of the Americas has been going on for the last 500 years, "the most severe persecution in history". The special jury of the Tribunal asserted that "the machinery of internal colonialism has been continuously consolidated, ruthlessly seeking the disintegration of the Indian communities". The Times, December 1980.
3.
Hobbes, Leviathan, Chap. 13 (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1973) p.64.
4.
For a similar treatment of the subject see R. Falk, A Study of Future Worlds (New York: Free Press, 1975}.
5.
John Kleinig, "Human Rights, Legal Rights and Social Change" in E. Kamenka and A. Erh-Soon Tay (eds.) Human Rights (New York: St. Martins Press, 1978), p.38.
6.
C.B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (London: Oxford University Press , 1962).
7.
F.A. Hayek, The Three Sources of Human Values, lecture delivered at the LSE, 1978.
8.
E. Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France", in Works , (London: Dodsley, 1925), Vol. II, p.368.
9.
E. Kamenka and A. Erh-Soon Tay , op. cit, p. 10.
10.
J. Habermas , Theory and Practice (London : Heinemann , 1974), p. 113.
11.
1. A. Smith , The Wealth of Nations, Everyman Edition, (London: Dent, 19571), Vol. II, p.180.
Keith Surer , The UN Commission on Human Rights, (London: Minority Rights Group, August 1977, p.297.
14.
For example, a subtle modification of the UN Human Rights Group which investigates the disappearance of thousands of detainees, modification in which the US joined with Argentina (with Soviet approval), was enough to confine the accusations against governments to private sessions, without the embarrassment (and efficacy) of publicity.
