Hon. Mr. Eugene
Rhuggenaath
Prime Minister of
Curacao
Fort Amsterdam
Curacao
July 17, 2018
Subject: Meetings
with Secretary-General and Security Council of the United Nations- a historic
betrayal of the Antillean
peoples
Your Excellency!
We took note that
your Excellency conducted meetings with the Secretary General Mr. António
Guterres and the Security Council last week at the United Nations Headquarters
in New York which will go down in history as a “black mark” , a historic
betrayal of our peoples of the Antilles as the Dutch never lived up to their
agreed and signed Charter of the United Nations in 1945, which promised and
comprised a freedom and equality for all people in the Kingdom.
The Dutch
government orchestrated your Excellency mission to mislead and deceive the
world, the United Nations, the European Union, Caricom, and the Caribbean and
Antillean peoples. This moment is considered as of the same weight as the
biggest Dutch lie in history when in 1955 Mr. Johan Beyen as Minister of Foreign
Affairs assisted by Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, Mr Jonckheer,
mislead the United Nations that they represented the free people of the
Netherlands Antilles, and absolved the Netherlands from reporting obligations
and removing us from the list of Non Self-Governing Territories (NSGT), and
betrayed us, the descendants of the enslaved and colonized peoples, which
inherited and acquired the full rights to freedom and equality as the Dutch in
the Netherlands in Europe.
The main themes
discussed or addressed at your meeting, were based on the emerging threats of
climate change and the possible consequences for our islands. Furthermore, the
situation with neighboring country Venezuela was questioned about which the
Dutch parliament passed a motion last month to seek support from USA, France
and Great Britain to build a robust defense. This action was reported by us to
the Caribbean region as using us, the ABC islands, as provocation to a peaceful
Caribbean seeking unity and integration, towards a possibly armed conflict: a
disaster to the Caribbean, worse than the climate threat and hurricanes, as the
Caribbean mostly depends on tourism as main economic pillar.
The course of
events leading up to the government and the permanent representation of the
Netherlands or Kingdom to the United Nations deciding to as a last resort to
use our own people, your Excellency, a Prime Minister of a government which the
Dutch has the total control over, through their budget, by a Commission of
Financial Supervision (CFT) and total control over the Judiciary system, is a
shame and mockery to democracy.
Our questions to
your Excellency is whether the Secretary General Mr. António Guterres was asked
his view on eradication of colonialism and whether the Security Council members
main objectives remain to protect human rights and to defend the ones that
cannot defend themselves against abuses, and, if they were informed or
requested an opinion:
- on the fact that
the Dutch government blackmailed, extorted and overthrew a legitimate
government in St Maarten after the devastating hurricane last year and forced a
new election and will only provide monetary aid for re-construction only if
their limited autonomy and democracy and border control is surrendered back to
the Dutch government;
-on the
un-democratic unilateral action and intervention of the Dutch in Sint Eustatius
in February 2018, removal, and overthrow of the legitimate elected democratic
governance through abuse of legislative power with the police and military force
on standby, and appointment of a non-democratic colonial ruler and government
ruling the Statian people;
-on the recent
mid-May adopted motion of your own Curacao parliament majority condemning the
Dutch intervention on Sint Eustatius which your Excellency party did not
support and did not show solidarity and brotherhood towards your own Caribbean
sister island;
- on the situation on your sister island
Bonaire where the people are being ruled in a status against their wishes that
they democratically and legally rejected and that the Bonerian people became a
minority on their own island in short space of time since the open immigration
and illegal annexation on October 10, 2010, and were embedded under unequal
rights in the Dutch Constitution in October 2017 and are facing an systematic
process of ethnic cleansing and displacement, an inevitable path of being
eradicated?
These are some of
the questions or issues which we wished and hoped that you would have raised
and brought to the attention of the international community, the United
Nations, instead of being a henchman for the Dutch against your own people to
help to destroy the Caribbean in the same way your predecessors destroyed the
Antilles on 10-10-10. As silence to injustice is consenting to injustice, in
your silence on the violation of your fellow brothers and sisters’ fundamental
rights as declared by United Nations, your Excellency is consenting to crimes
against humanity.
Finally, as our
history has taught us that the Dutch mastered the divide-and-rule game, have
institutionalized colonialism and racism, and have
rewarded up today the traitors of their own people for being loyal to the Dutch
government with Royal con-decorations and positions of power and income, we can
only hope that your Excellency will
realize that our only salvation as Antillean-Caribbean people is by uniting
back with our own people and reject this new wave of Dutch re-colonization, and
we hope that your Excellency as a leader, a prime minister, will respect,
protect and comply with the rights of us, your brothers and sisters, the
Antillean people.
Respectfully,
James Finies,
Bonaire
C.c. United
Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
United
Nations Security Council Members
Parliament and Government of the
Netherlands
Parliament of Curacao
Parliament of Aruba
Parliament of St Maarten
Caricom
COPPPAL
