Dear Minister
I have tried, in my letter (attached) to make
this as simple as possible.
"Do the parents of children removed by an
AusAID approved NGO have the right to be supplied with documents (MOUs,
contracts, agreements) relating to that removal?"
For the past five years the answer seems to
have been 'no'.
At present it is me who is looking at a
possible prison sentence for asking this question and for suggesting that Rosa
and Chita were illegally removed by the church.
Unless the 2008 MOU gave Citipointe the right
to remove children from their families without reason, it is Pastor Leigh
Ramsey who should be facing Cambodian courts, not me.
best wishes
The Hon Julie Bishop MP
Minister for
Foreign Affairs
Parliament
House
21st
March 2014
Dear Minister
Could you
please ask Citipointe and the Global Development Group to produce the
memorandum of understanding (MOU) the church entered into with the Cambodian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008.
This document
will, once and for all, reveal whether Citipointe’s removal of Rosa and Chita
in 2008 was legal or not in accordance with Cambodian law between July 2008 and
Nov 2009 when Citipopitne entered into an MOU with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
If Citipointe
and the Global Development Group refuse to supply a copies of either of these
MOUs to Chanti and Chhork, (as has been
the case this past five years) could you please ask them to explain why?
Please,
Minister, this is not a time for the intervention of a Spin Doctor. The 2008
MOU either exists or it does not. If it exists and it did not give Citipointe
permission to remove children from their families, there are lots of questions
that need to be asked.
best wishes
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