Kralendijk,
August 17, 2023 - Bonaire Human Rights Organization reaction to Dutch State-Secretary
van Huffelen call to participate in internet-consultations
With regards
to The Dutch government uses “internetconsultatie” https://www.internetconsultatie.nl/wolbesfinbes/b1
to collect ideas from residents and organizations, including Non-governmental
Organizations (NGO), about legislative proposals. That these so-called
consultations would be your chance to have your say on new laws before they
become final.
The call for
organizations to react or give input to the Law change WolBES and FinBES process,
please find Bonaire Human Rights Organization reaction and objection hereunder to
the intention to legitimize the illegal Bonaire, Eustatius and Saba (BES) laws:
“Unjust acts
do not create law.”
The BES laws
with respect to Bonaire in particular were created on an unjust unlawful base,
as the democratic power and responsibility of the Bonaire people were reversed
and subordinated back under The Hague overseas colonial rule on October 10,
2010.
This act,
considered internationally, as an annexation and continuation of colonization
by the Netherlands was declared by the international community, and United
Nations (UN), as “crime against humanity”, and remains a disputable
international case, as it was imposed on the people of Bonaire, without their
consent, and not respecting and denying their fundamental inalienable right to
self-determination.
The right of
self-determination solely belongs to the people, not to the government of
Bonaire, and neither the government of Holland.
The imposed
BES laws violate the main fundamental human and self-determination right of the
peoples and cannot be considered legal, as they were imposed by the Dutch
colonial administrative power over the people. Who decides the question of
democracy and self-determination? In a real democracy, the people do, and in a fake
democracy, the empire does.
We cannot
cooperate and continue to legitimize the unjust system and laws created and
imposed against the wishes and democratic decision of the peoples, as they deny
our legitimate inalienable human and self-determination rights.
This call or
indecent proposal of the Holland government to involve the civil society in
this illegal process of legitimizing its unlawful acts can be considered to
“invite the civil society to be an accomplice in the Holland government’s continued
violations of the main pillars of modern civilization based on democracy and
human rights.
In fact,
inviting the civil society to cooperate with the Holland government’s violation
of several of Bonaire people’s international legal instruments and the UN’
Charter, and UN’s Decolonization Declaration
Violations
of articles 1, 55, 73 and 103 of the Charter of the United Nations and
resolutions 742, 747, 945, 1514 and 1541 et al. that affirm the inalienable
rights of the people of Bonaire to self-determination.
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The
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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International
Covenant on All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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