Petition the United Nations and the Nations of the World to implement 'Responsibility to Protect'

Petition the United Nations and the Nations of the World to implement 'Responsibility to Protect'

We the people of the free world submit this petition to the following:
Mr. Ki-moon Ban, Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr. Kofi Atta Annan, Former Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra, Former Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr. George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America and Members of the Government
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Mr. James Gordon Brown and Members of Her Majesty’s Government
Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic and Members of Government
Mr. Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany and Members of Government

To the members of the United Nations Security Council
To the members of the European Union
To the leaders of the world

To the free citizens of the world

On May 2nd 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) and caused widespread destruction and damage to property, causing the death of more than 30,000 people by official count (U.N. estimates more than 100,000 people), 40,000 people missing (U.N. estimates more than 200,000 people) and made homeless more than 1 million people.

The current military government (unrecognized) of Burma’s response to Cyclone Nargis before and after:

1. Failure to provide timely warnings and make strong emphasis on the potential danger of the cyclone and threat to the people
2. Failure to provide rapid aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis afterwards
3. Theft of aid supplies donated by the good will of the governments, organizations and people of the international community
4. Prevention of aid supplies and aid relief experts from reaching the victims of the cyclone
5. Profiteering on the victims of the cyclone who are in desperate need of food, clean water, shelter, medical care and other essentials
6. Intentional negligence in failure to respond to the needs of the victims
7. Delays in providing relief to the suffering of the victims of the cyclone

For these actions, we the people of the world, submit this petition to the above mentioned parties to put in action the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1674 also known as ‘Responsibility to Protect’ so that aid and relief may be provided to the people who are facing the tragedy due to the result of Cyclone Nargis.

The UNSC Resolution 1674: Responsibility to Protect states
“Each Individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”
The military junta of Burma has failed in this aspect.

Though natural disasters are not specified in the resolution, the failure of the military junta in providing aid to the victims and the junta’s willingness to allow thousands of innocent people to die in order to hold onto power can and must be considered an act of Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity. Therefore, we urge the governments, organizations and people of the world to intervene and help the victims of Cyclone Nargis

The principles of R2P state that if a particular state is unwilling or unable to carry out its responsibility to prevent such abuses, that responsibility must be transferred to the international community, which must attempt to solve problems initially via peaceful means (such as diplomatic pressure, dialogue, even sanctions) and then, as a last resort, through the use of military force.

We ask the governments, organizations and people of the world to act directly to help and bypass the restrictions placed by the illegitimate military junta of Burma. We ask that Moral Conscience be given more value than the laws of a Sovereign State under the rule of an illegitimate dictatorship which is intent on oppressing the population