Please support our petition to the Minister of International Development and Human Rights of Norway

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Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson 
Minister of International Development and Human Rights of Norway
7. juni plass 1, Postbox 8114 Dep
N-0032 Oslo
Norway
Telephone +47 22 24 39 00 
Green line +47 800 33 320, 
Telefax +47 22 24 95 80, +47 22 24 95 81 
E-mail: hilde.frafjord-johnson@ud.dep.telemax.no

Dear Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson,
We, as the International Community, are aware that, during the recent
riots spread throughout Indonesia, Chinese-Indonesians have been 
tortured, killed, and burnt to death. Their houses and shops have been 
looted and burnt. Hundreds of Chinese-Indonesian women and even children 
have been savagely gang-raped in public by organized indigenous-Indonesian 
gangs with alleged links to security forces.

Human rights and women's aid groups have received telephone threats and 
even a hand grenade in the mail as a warning to stop the investigations 
and their aid to victims. So far little has been done by the government. 
Their denial and sluggishness in preventing the atrocities strengthen 
the public allegations that the riots were directed by the Indonesian 
political and military elites.

It is very obvious that organized sexual assault suffered by 
Bosnian-Muslim, Tutsi, and Algerian women has been used in Indonesia as 
a tactic in terrorizing and humiliating Chinese-Indonesians.

We urge the Norwegian Government to: 
1. Condemn strongly the savage violation of human rights in Indonesia.

2. Press the Indonesian government to conduct a thorough investigation 
   to punish the perpetrators and the brains behind the ferocious racial 
   attacks.

3. Charge the violators as international criminals to be brought 
   to the International Crime Court in the Netherlands.

4. Press the Indonesian government to make guarantee that no such
   racial incident against Chinese-Indonesians will recur in the future.

5. Press the Indonesian government to protect Chinese-Indonesians
   and human rights and women's aid groups who are under constant
   threat and danger.

6. Impose political sanctions to the Indonesian government 
   if such racial incidents recur in the future.

7. Grant refugee status to the Chinese-Indonesians whose lives are in 
   extreme danger.

We, as the citizens of the world, do not deserve to emerge to the next 
millennium and claim a progress in civilization if we are ignorant and 
dormant to the atrocities against our fellow
human being.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

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