Actions Burma wrote: Date: Wed, 7 DEC 2005 23:22:15 +0100 Of: Actions
Burma Subject: EC MALL CANCELS the PRECEDENT - Aung San Suu Kyi needs you
With: beja2310@yahoo.fr
** an error slipped into our preceding mall: a great part of
the text missed. Thank you to hold account only of this email-Ci.
Please excuse us for this error. ** Burma, Total and Justice in
Belgium: Proposal for an action! Cher(e)s sympathisant(e)s,
The Burmese Generals have just assigned a hard blow with the
Burmese people: six months more under house arrest for their
Aung San Suu Kyi leader, which you had supported last June In Belgium, the
High court of our country applies an anticonstitutional law to deprive
itself of a complaint against Total for complicities of crimes against
humanity in Burma. The event défraie the chronicle and places the
Parliament in front of the obligation to vote a new law... Actions
Burma proposes two concrete gestures to you to encourage our elected
officials to vote this law to save the honor of our democracy, setting
with evil by Total lately. You can act since on your premise for
justice in Belgium and the democracy in Burma! Explanations below or
passage to the action even low!
Dear fellow-citizens and sympathizers of Burma Actions, Here are a few
months, you had been ten miles to take the feather to wish a happy
birthday with Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize of the peace held arbitrarily
by the Burmese junta for 10 years. By there, you marked your
support for his nonviolent combat for the democracy and your refusal
to forget its deplorable condition. Since and parallel to this action,
the events were connected. The Supreme court of appeal decided in June
to deprive Belgian justice of the complaint introduced by four
Burmeses against Total for complicity of crime against humanity
while basing itself on a provision of the law of universal competence
which stipulates that the plaintiffs must be of Belgian nationality.
Whereas the Court of arbitration had declared two months earlier the
unconstitutionality of this provision, the Supreme court of appeal was
satisfied to apply the law of universal competence to the letter,
refusing EC manner to fill what it called a legislative gap. Several
deputies deposited, as of the judgment delivered, a interpretative
private bill allowing to exhume the Burmese complaint and to grant
to the refugees recognized in Belgium the same statute as the Belgian
nationals. In November, Actions Burma accompanied by twenty other
associations representing of the thousands of citizens sent to each
senator and to deputy a mail requiring of them to support the vote of
the interpretative law. Nevertheless this one is still not on the
agenda of our legislative rooms.
Action Burma thus requires once again your support in order to leave
this legislative proposal the parliamentary oubliettes so that finally
Belgium puts conformity with its international obligations which
enjoignent to him to treat on a refugee and equal footing nationals.
We should now press our elected officials to pose this strong gesture
without delaying because the maintenance of such a denial of justice
is insupportable as well for the victims as for a company which wants
to be democratic. Moreover, the vote of this law would finally make it
possible to give wrong to this famous law of the strongest of which
Total and the Burmese mode seems so well to make use in this
moment. Indeed, whereas Aung San Suu Kyi was to be released this week, the
mode decided to prolong its detention under house arrest of six more
months. Total is not unemployed either. In France, the company offered
the moderate amount of 10 000 euros per plaintiff realising
withdrawal of the complaint deposited against it, which was accepted
by the victims. Extremely fortunately a withdrawal of complaint does
not imply necessarily the closure instruction. Dimensioned Belgian,
the ethics of the company does not fly higher. This one also proposed
with the victims a transaction but which was refused. We consequently
call all our sympathizers, their families, friends and knowledge to
let know with our representatives that Belgium must be a State where
reign justice and not capacity and money. Concretely here two
mail-type.
To send by email: It would be wise to address the first to a maximum
of team leaders parliamentary by email (by doing one "copy-to stick").
In a preoccupation with an effectiveness of the step, it is
preferable, if your time is counted, that you put the priority on the
top of the list that here. PS: Mr. Giet with thierry.giet@lachambre.be
CDH:Mr Wathelet with melchior.wathelet@lachambre.be MR.: Mr.
Bacquelaine with daniel.bacquelaine@lachambre.be Ecologist: Mr. Nollet
with Jean-marc.nollet@lachambre.be
To send by mail: The second mail is intended to Madam the
Minister for Justice, Laurette Onkelinx. We cordially thank you for
time that you will pass to this action. You will find more information
on www.birmanie.net And we remind to you that in more than one
concrete support, any financial assistance is also the welcome bus
Actions Burma is a small structure functioning with few means. For any
information, consult our site. Actions Burma www.birmanie.net 50
Avenue of Fléron B-1190 Brussels Belgium (banks) 523-0801090-42
_________________________________ EXAMPLE OF MAIL TO BE ADDRESSED to
the TEAM LEADERS Titrates mall: Let us respect the international law:
Vote on interpretative private bill of the Law of Universal Competence
(see coordinated above) Mister the deputy and parliamentary team
leader,
It is in my capacity as citizen attached to the respect of the values
of democracy and justice on which our State rests that I address to
you today. Last 29 June, the Supreme court of appeal deprived Belgian
justice of the complaint deposited by four Burmeses against Total
for complicity of crime against the humanity made in Burma. The Court
based its judgement on the law of universal competence, as modified in
2003, which lays out that the plaintiffs must be of Belgian
nationality. Although it noted that the law had been just declared
unconstitutional by the Court of arbitration, the Court estimated that
it did not return to him to fill a legislative gap. It meant by there
that only the legislator was able to cure such an illegality, and not
of least since it is a question of violation by Belgium of his
international obligations in comparison in particular of the
Convention of Geneva and the European Convention of the Humans right.
In order to rectify this situation, the day following the
dispossession, several deputies deposited a interpretative private
bill which was to make it possible to exhume the Burmese complaint
and to give Belgium in conformity with its international obligations.
The fact is that this proposal is still not on the agenda of the
legislative assemblies. This why I join at the request of support
which was addressed to you by the "not very common Face for justice in
the TOTAL file in Burma" here are two weeks and urges to you to do all
that is in your capacity so that this proposal is discussed within the
legislative assemblies and is as fast as possible supported by your
parliamentary group, because the persistence of this situation insults
each day a little more the pride which I have to live in a State of
right. In waiting of your answer, Yours sincerely.
______________________________________ EXAMPLE OF LETTER TO ADDRESS To
A OUR MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Concerns: Your interpretative bill of the
Law of Universal Competence? Mrs Laurette Onkelinx Vice-First Minister
Minister for Justice Street Commercial 76/80 1040 Brussels Madam the
Minister for Justice, Laurette Onkelinx, It is in my capacity as
citizen attached to the respect of the values of democracy and justice
on which puts back our State that I address to you today. Last 29
June, the Supreme court of appeal deprived Belgian justice of the
complaint deposited by four Burmeses against Total for complicity
of crime against the humanity made in Burma. The Court based its
judgement on the law of universal competence, as modified in 2003,
which lays out that the plaintiffs must be of Belgian nationality.
Although it noted that the law had been just declared unconstitutional
by the Court of arbitration, the Court estimated that it did not
return to him to fill a legislative gap. It meant by there that only
the legislator was able to cure such an illegality, and not of least
since it is a question of violation by Belgium of his international
obligations in comparison in particular of the Convention of Geneva
and the European Convention of the Humans right. I have ouï to say by
the press that a repairing bill aiming at extending the transient
state of the law of universal competence to the political refugees was
in preparation within your cabinet. I cannot since you to exhort
as fast as possible to file in this project before our legislative
assemblies while insisting on the will of the government that this one
is placed at the row of the priorities. Belgium, State of right
attache to the respect of the humans right, cannot support a long time
any more this affront with the principles which constitute its base.
In waiting of your answer, Yours sincerely.
Received on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:36:34 +0100 (CET)
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