** Forum Nasional Indonesia PPI India Mailing List ** ** Untuk bergabung dg Milis Nasional kunjungi: ** Situs Milis: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ ** ** Beasiswa dalam negeri dan luar negeri S1 S2 S3 dan post-doctoral scholarship, kunjungi http://informasi-beasiswa.blogspot.com **Preparatory Committee of the Free Acheh Democratic Secretariats: New York, United States. Tel/Fax. +1 718 337 8843 Stockholm, Scandinavia. Tel. + 46 739 756532 E-mail: committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx OPEN LETTER TO THE NOBEL PEACE COMMITTEE The Norwegian Nobel Committee Drammensveien 19 NO-0255 OSLO Norway Dear Norwegian Nobel Committee Members We the Preparatory Committee of the Free Acheh Democratic strongly urges the Nobel Committee to reject the nomination by US Congressman Robert Wexler of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his "dedication to resolving the conflict in Aceh." Under his presidency, throughout the duration of the Helsinki talks, from February to August, while the people of Acheh were traumatized by 130,000 tsunami deaths and 120,000 persons missing, appallingly grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War continued unrestrained by Yudhoyono's security forces against innocent civilians. Field reports from inside Acheh catalogued hundreds of human rights violations including extortion, intimidation, abductions, rapes arbitrary arrests, detention, torture, deaths in custody, disappearances and extra judicial executions. On June 8 2005, Yudhyono's then Defense Forces (TNI) Commander Gen. Endriartono Sutarto announced that 3,738 GAM fighter were killed by Indonesian security forces since 19 May 2003. GAM strongly refuted the claim stating the military had "exaggerated" the number and that more than 3000 were Achehnese civilians. These figures then suggest that on average, five Achehnese civilians have been murdered each day throughout this period. Yudhoyono was appointed to the key position of Minister for Security and Political Affairs in the Wahid and Megawati governments in charge of the endorsement of martial law in Acheh after Indonesia sabotaged the Tokyo peace talks in May 2003. Martial law was replaced by the equally repressive civil emergency law in May 2004 enabling his security forces to commit human rights violations with impunity as foreign journalists and human rights monitors were barred from entering Acheh. Even though the lifting the civil emergency requires the declaration of a presidential decree, President Yudhoyono did not lift it until May 2005, 5 months after the tsunami and after the 4th round of peace talks. The President of Indonesia must be held fully accountable for the systematic war crimes by his security forces post-tsunami and during the peace process. Stockholm, 23 February 2006 Signed Asnawi Ali The committee member Email:asnawi.ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi 4. Satu email perhari: ppiindia-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 5. No-email/web only: ppiindia-nomail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 6. kembali menerima email: ppiindia-normal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ppiindia-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ** Forum Nasional Indonesia PPI India Mailing List ** ** Untuk bergabung dg Milis Nasional kunjungi: ** Situs Milis: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ ** ** Beasiswa dalam negeri dan luar negeri S1 S2 S3 dan post-doctoral scholarship, kunjungi http://informasi-beasiswa.blogspot.com **