Monitoring Anti-hindu/india Activities Abroad

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A blast from the past. This bunch is pretty quite when it comes to riots in Beligum or France and Germany. Hypocrites <!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Will someone remind this Dr. Satinath Choudhary?
In entirety at : http://insaf.net/pipermail/insafny_insaf.n...rch/000176.html

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Dear friends,

Please act urgently, within a week! Here is a copy of letter I have received from Mr. Gerard Oonk, coordinator, India Committee of the Netherlands, in response to my letter to him. He says,

"It would indeed be very important if you could write to e.g. the
Dutch government and the European Commission on the issue."

And adds,

"It would be useful if you could write within a week from now, as
they have to give answers to the parliamentary questions in about
two weeks. They might then take up your information."

For the addresses of the appropriate persons to write to, please see the letter. Thanks.

Regards,
Sati

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g.oonk@indianet.nl wrote:
Dear Dr. Choudhary,

Thank you for your support for the position we took on Gujarat.  Attached you will find questions raised in the Dutch parliament on the issue by the Dutch Labour party. They are now forming a coalition government with the christian democrats, so this means they have to follow up on it when they are in government.

By the way: how did you come to know about our press release  and which organisation are you related to?

It would indeed be very important if you could write to e.g. the Dutch government and the European Commission on the issue.

With regard to the Dutch government you could write to:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. J. de Hoop Scheffer, Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Mrs. A. van Aardenne, Minister for Development Co-operation
Postbox 20061
2500 EB Den Haag
The Netherlands

An e-mail version of the letter could be send to:
Mr. Wilfred Mohr, Head Southern Asia Division Asia and Oceania
Department; e-mail: wt.mohr@minbuza.nl
But do address the letter officially to the Ministers. That obliges  them to give a formal reply. It would be useful if you couid write within a week from now, as they have to give answers to the parliamentary questions in about two weeks. They might then take up your information.

With regard to the European Commission you could write to both:

European Commission
Mr. Chris Patten
Commissioner for External Relations
Rue de Loi
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium

Head of the Section for India, Bhutan and Nepal is Mrs. Laurence
Argimon-Pistre; e-mail: laurence.argimon-pistre@cec.eu.int

and to:

European Commission
Mr. Poul Nielson
European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
G-12 8/48
Rue de Genève 12
1140 Brussels Belgium
tel. 32-2-2981000
E-mail: poul.nielson@cec.eu.int

( I still have to find out the India-in-charge in this Directorate)

I will be in touch on the issue with you.
Please also keep us informed about uyour activities in this regard.

Kind regards,

Gerard Oonk

Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:37:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Satinath Choudhary
Subject: Thanks to India Committee of the Netherlands
To: g.oonk@indianet.nl
Copies to: rkurian1@vsnl.com, india-unity@yahoogroups.com, bahujan@yahoogroups.com,
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Insafny@insaf.net

>
> Mr. Gerard Oonk
> co-ordinator
> India Committee of the Netherlands 
> g.oonk@indianet.nl
>
> Dear Mr. Oonk,
>
> Thank you very much for your Press Release of March 11, 2003,
> http://www.indianet.nl/pb030311.html
>
> copied below. I am writing on behalf of Indians concerned about human
> rights in India and the world, in general, and human rights in Gujarat in
> particular. We whole heartedly endorse the stand you have taken (in the
> excerpt below) with regard to cooperation between EU and the Government of
> Netherlands on one hand and the Governments of India and Gujarat on the
> other. <span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>We would like to join you in urging the Government of Netherlands
> and the EU to stop all cooperation with the Governments of India and
> Gujarat until their human rights records improve. We also join your call
> for public denunciation of the latter by the former. </span>
>
> We would like to request you to tell provide us with email addresses of
> appropriate officers of EU and various other governments where we could
> write urging them to do their utmost ,and anything else that we could do,
> to bring pressure upon the Governments of India and Gujarat.
> 
> Excerpt from your letter, "Two questions seem to be crucial here: is the
> continued co-operation with the government of Gujarat not a justification
> of a government that is co-responsible for mass murder, does not punish
> those that are responsible, ignores the victims and discriminates the
> Muslim minority? are the programmes supported by The Netherlands and the
> EU being negatively effected by a government that
> discriminates Muslims?
>
> The India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) is of the opinion that the
> official development co-operation with the government of Gujarat should be
> suspended until these questions are answered and until the recommendations
> of the National Human Rights Commission, Amnesty nternational and Human
> Rights Watch are satisfactorily implemented." >
>
> Thank you again for your compassionate and forthright Press Release and
> pressure upon the Government of Netherlands and EU.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Dr. Satinath Choudhary
> </span>>
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