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Subject: In: Messaggio ai Paesi africani:
manca la tua adesione!
Salvatore Vasques e Renata
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Inoltrato da Salvatore Vasques/SY005518/SY-IT/SYNDIAL/IT il 06/10/2005 15.56
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Come sai da un precedente messaggio, il 10 ottobre di ogni anno si
celebra
nel mondo la Giornata Contro la Pena di Morte. La Coalizione
Mondiale
Contro la Pena di Morte ha deciso di dedicare la ricorrenza di
quest'anno
al tema dell'abolizione della pena capitale nei Paesi
africani.
Pertanto il prossimo 10 ottobre porteremo alle ambasciate dei
38 Paesi
africani che prevedono ancora la pena di morte dei messaggi
di
sensibilizzazione diretti al Capo dello stato e a tutto il Popolo
di
ciascun paese. A titolo di esempio alleghiamo il testo del
messaggio
diretto al Ruanda (pur rimando identici nella struttura, i vari
messaggi
sono adattati alla situazione di ogni paese).
Rispondendo a
questo e-mail e indicando i tuoi dati (nome, cognome e
indirizzo postale
COMPLETO) potrai sottoscrivere anche tu questo
importante
appello!
Aspettiamo la TUA adesione a giro di
posta!
Cordiali saluti
Grazia Guaschino
Giuseppe Lodoli
P. S.
puoi molto opportunamente aggiungere alla tua adesione quella di
qualche
familiare od amico a portata di mano
Garantiamo che i dati a noi inviati
saranno utilizzati solo per la
presente
iniziativa.
President Paul Kagame
This
letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
World Day Against the Death
Penalty
DearŠ,
We are pleased and honoured to address you and the
Rwandan people. We want
to assure you that we are in solidarity with the
efforts of all Rwandan
citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights
after a long period of
terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a
spirit of deep friendship
and humility that we request that you do your
best to achieve, as soon as
possible, the complete abolition of the death
penalty in Rwanda, and that
in the meantime you maintain the present
moratorium on executions.
We are aware that we write to you from a
privileged place, a part of the
world where survival, freedom, safety and
peace are assured. We are also
aware that our privileges have come at a
high cost to other, less fortunate
populations. As citizens of the
industrialized West, we must accept
responsibility for an economic system
that excludes and exploits billions
of our fellow human beings.
It is
our sincere desire to work for change even as we hope for an era
of
freedom, justice and peace, a time when relationships among individuals
and
among nations will be ruled by a common respect for human rights
rather
than by force, violence, and abuse.
We believe that the solemn
words from the Preamble to the Universal
Declaration of the Rights of Man,
issued on December 10, 1948, are still
valid and true: "recognition of the
inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of
the human family is the foundation of
freedom, justice and peace in the
world."
These words give us the strength to dare ask you to abolish the
death
penalty, which offends personal dignity and undermines the enjoyment
of the
first and fundamental human right: the right to life. This right is
without
doubt a condition for the respect of all other rights.
Capital
punishment, which has been a part of human history through
millennia, no
longer has a place in modern and civilized legal system. In
the second half
of the Eighteenth century, thanks to the Italian scholar
Cesare Beccaria,
the abolitionist idea was born. Today, the countries that
maintain the
death penalty in their legal system are a minority, and those
who actually
enforce it are even fewer. This shows the growing
understanding that the
death penalty, which originated in fear and the wish
for revenge, is
neither fair nor useful; it does not fight criminality; nor
does it uplift
the morality of a country.
You are facing huge problems - the
administration of justice in regard to
the tens of thousands of people
responsible for crimes against humanity;
the struggle to find a way to
insure basic survival for all your citizens,
to solve serious health
problems, and to grant civil rights, particularly
women's rights. Yet these
problems do not make the issue of the death
penalty a secondary or
negligible problem.
Mr. President, Rwandan friends, we urge you to take a
brave step forward:
Abolish the death penalty and let Rwanda join a
universal ideal of
civilization. Help to heal the wounds in society,
promote a positive image
of your Country in the world, and increase
international co-operation and
solidarity.
We moreover beg you to add
your voice to the abolitionist ones in the
international seats to call upon
all States that still maintain the death
penalty to abolish the death
penalty completely and, in the meantime, to
establish a moratorium on
executions.
Thanking you in advance for an answer, we
remain
respectfully yours,
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