From:
The Pastors of the various churches of the Raizal Archipielago of Saint Andrew (San Andres), Providence (Providencia) and Kathleena (Santa Catalina), in behalf of our people.

To:
The International Court of Justice

Carnegieplein 2
2517 KJ - The Hague
Netherlands

Fax:
009 -31(0)703649928

Attention:

The Honorable Judge Peter Tomka
President of the International Court of Justice
The Honorable Judge Bernardo Sepulveda–Amor
Vice-President of the International Court of Justice
The Honorable Judges: Ronny Abraham & Kenneth Keith
Rules Committee of the International Court of Justice
Mr. Phillippe Convreur
Registrer of the International Court of Justice
Ms. Thérése de Saint Phalle
Deputy Registrer

Dear Members of the ICJ,

In our role as Spiritual Leaders of the Raizal People, it is very difficult for us to comprehend how is it that the “International Court of Justice” in meting out “justice”, can simply base its judgment on the testimonies of two foreign powers who are in dispute over the territory of an ethnic group of people, who appear to be invisible, and do not even have the possibility to intervene in what is taking place in regards to their ancestral homeland.

Next month, Abril 2012, at the International Court of Justice of The Hague, there will be a next round of DISPUTE between COLOMBIA and NICARAGUA, fighting over the Native Raizal Territory, to see who will continue to be the COLONIZER.

According to Colombians

According to Nicaraguans

The Raizal People become a free Nation in 1818, before Colombia (1819) and Nicaragua (1830) become to be fee nations.

In 1822 the Raizal People made a free anexation to the Gran Colombia (South-America) in 1822, but today the Archipelgo had become a simple Colony of Colombia, where the descendants of the autoctonous People is under constant displacement, majority of them living in the Diaspora, and those remain in the Territory, today own less than the 50% of the lands.

A Municipal INCINERATOR is currently being installed and next to start operating in the capital of the Native Raizal People Territory, hiding behind the argument of solving the critical garbage problem in San Andres Island, while say to produce "energy"!

There is none of such incinerator functioning in Colombia (South-America); but the Colombian government promotes the installation of one in their colony in the west Caribbean (in the Indigenous Raizal People Territory).

The Raizal People call upon the solidarity of the International Community to stop the burning, and contamination of their people, plants, animals, and natural environment.

Alternatives such as ZERO WASTE were totally ignored during the so-called Previous Consultations done with a questionable Group of NGOs, negotiating in the name entire People.

There are no recongnizion nor respect to the STOCKHOLM CONVENTION, that seek to reduce and cease the production of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), such as dioxins and furans, present in the emisions of such incinerators.

Please help us save the World Biosphere Reserve (SEAFLOWER) and its indigenous Raizal People!