Leigh Ramsey
322 Wecker Road
Carindale
QLD 4152
22nd May 2014
Dear Leigh
Chhork’s father, Rosa and Chita’s grandfather, died last night. Chanti and Chhork want Rosa and Chita to be present for the funeral – which they are arranging right now.
You have not allowed Rosa and Chita to take part in any family weddings, get-togethers, ceremonies, rituals or cultural celebrations this past six years. If Citipointe has any respect at all for the bonds of family, you should allow the girls to attend the funeral of their grandfather.
best wishes
James
A few days later, 27th May 2014:
A few days later, 27th May 2014:
27th
May 2014
Pastors Mulheran
and Ramsey
You did not
allow Rosa and Chita to attend their grandfather’s funeral last Friday. Instead
you sent church representatives to Chanti and Chhork’s home and, whilst she and
Chhork were grieving, induced Chanti to sign a document she could not read, did
not understand and whose contents were not described to her in a way that she
could explain to me. Chanti was not provided with a copy of whatever it was she
signed.
Could you please
supply Chanti and Chhork with copies of the document Chanti signed and myself
also, as their legally appointed advocate. Three years ago I handed you a copy
of this legal document on Phnom Penh, Leigh.
Your church has
broken Cambodian law through its illegal removal and detention of Rosa and Chita
with the full knowledge and approval of your funding partner, Australia’s
Global Development Group (GDG), in
breach of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Code of
Conduct.
ACFID refuses to
request of your church or of GDG that you produce copies of the MOUs both NGOs
insist gave your church the right to remove and detain Rosa and Chita close to
6 years ago. In so doing, ACFID has given a green light to any AusAID approved
NGO, using tax-deductible Australian charity dollars, to both break the laws of
the countries in which they work and to breach the ACFID Code of Conduct. All
that is required is that an NGO assert that it has entered into an MOU with the
host country and no further questions will be asked. The NGO will not be asked
to provide copies of the MOUs to ACFID.
Through your
lawyer, Citipointe has entered into a corrupt relationship with the Phnom Penh
court to have vexatious charges brought against me on the basis of absurd
accusations. This manipulation of the Cambodian legal system, in conjunction
with what can best be described as incompetence on the part of ACFID, provides
Citipointe and other unscrupulous NGOs with the perfect environment in which to
exploit the poor and the powerless, to save souls for Jesus Christ along the
way and to fill Citipointe’s coffers. You have now exported this scam to India
and, no doubt, there will be many distraught parents of ‘orphans’ wondering how
it was they lost their daughters and with no-one to turn to for help in getting
them back.
As I imagine
will be apparent to you by now, after close to six years, I will not cease
advocating on behalf of Chanti and Chhork until Rosa and Chita have been
returned to their care. And, if Citipointe had no legal right to remove the
girls in the first place, (to be determined by the existence or non-existence
of the MOUs) until Citipointe compensates the family for the pain and suffering
your church has visited on it this past 6 years.
In what is
almost certainly an exercise in futility, Chanti and Chhork have written to the
Global Development Group asking the NGO questions they have a right to be
provided with answers to in accordance with the ACFID Code of Conduct:
Given
Citipointe’s illegal removal of girls from their families in Cambodia, the
attached photo of the ‘orphans’ Citipointe has ‘rescued’ should give rise to a
whole host of questions but is there anyone who will ask them?
best wishes
James Ricketson
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