18 and resources, and the alleged impact of mining operations on the displaced villages of Brokopondo District; d) George Leidsman, witness proposed by the representatives, is a Saramaka member of the flooded village of Ganzee, and testified regarding the alleged forcible displacement of the Saramaka people in the 1960s, as well as its consequences and effects; e) Jennifer Victorine van Dijk-Silos, witness proposed by the State, is the chairperson of Suriname's Presidential Land Rights Commission, and testified regarding the establishment of the Presidential Land Rights Commission on February 1, 2006, its accomplishments, and its future plans with respect to the land rights of the Saramaka people and other maroons and indigenous peoples living in Suriname; f) Peter Poole, expert witness proposed by the Commission and the representatives, is a geomatics expert who has worked extensively with various indigenous and tribal peoples on projects concerning resource management and sustainable development. He provided his expert opinion regarding, inter alia: his role in assisting the Saramaka people to create geographically accurate maps, aerial photographs, and satellite images that display how the Saramaka use and occupy their territory and resources; inferences regarding the extent of Saramaka use of their territory and resources based on these instruments; illegal gold mining near socalled Saramaka transmigration villages; the alleged ongoing impact caused by the Afobaka dam’s flooding of Saramaka territory, and the environmental impact of logging activities in Saramaka territory; g) Mariska Muskiet, expert witness proposed by the Commission and the representatives, is a property law lecturer at the University of Suriname as well as the Acting Director of Stichting Moiwana, a Surinamese human rights organization. She provided her expert opinion regarding Surinamese property law and domestic remedies with respect to indigenous and tribal peoples´ claims to land; h) Robert Goodland, expert witness proposed by the representatives, is the former Chief Environmental Adviser for the World Bank Group who drafted and implemented the World Bank's official policy on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples adopted in February of 1982. He provided his expert opinion regarding, inter alia: the alleged environmental and social impacts of logging concessions that operated between 1997 and 2003 in Saramaka territory, Suriname's lack of compliance with World Bank standards, the alleged ongoing adverse effects of the Afobaka dam and reservoir on the Saramaka people, the potential ramifications of Suriname's plans to increase the water level of the Afobaka reservoir through the Tapanahony/Jai Kreek Diversion Project, and possible measures to repair the alleged damage in the present case; i) Martin Scheinin, expert witness proposed by the representatives, is a Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and a former member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He provided his expert opinion regarding, inter alia: the HR Committee’s recognition of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights under common Article 1 of the ICCPR and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter “ICESCR”), their relevance to the interpretation of Articles 21 (Right to Property) and 3 (Right to Juridical Personality) of the American Convention, the relationship

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