Case number 10/2015: Argentine Government (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner presidency)

 

ETHICAL NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

 

Dear President of Argentine Republic,

Hereby, on January 9, 2016, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR) congratulates you on your election and also to inform you that we are available to assist you in whatever you wish. It is very important that a change takes place in Argentina.

Below, we raise a series of issues that your advisers probably have never made you to know; although it is fundamental you are aware in order not to be an accomplice to these issues:

1. We make you to know that you and your family have our official invitation to come to visit our humble Buddhist Temple called “World Association of Buddhism” based in the city of Necochea.
2. We let you know that we offer our unconditional support to carry out cultural exchange agreements with India, where we have a network of institutions and individuals who support us and with whom we work every day.
3. We inform you that on November 2015 we have created a Universal Declaration of Ecological Rights, which we expect it has your official endorsement.
4. We inform once again that the Argentine government and its former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, on December 2015, have been found Responsible for 31 charges among which there are found Crimes against Humanity for the magnicide and covering-up of terrorist attacks among other facts. In spite of the fact of being provided the opportunity to issue a statement of defense against the 31 charges, the President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner refused to declare. We also confirm that this was notified to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the current presidency, but it has not issued any reply in this regard.
5. We let you know that during 2009 and 2013 we have suffered two attempts against our lives and the Argentine Justice kept impunity over these terrible events, reason why we have formally denounced Argentina before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Thus, we request that the Presidency of the Argentina Nation recognizes by decree that the country made no effort to bring justice, repairing damages and protecting of civil rights in the face of the attacks that we have suffered, because even a minister of your current administration showed complicit silence when many years ago we have requested formal help.
6. Please be aware that when we have received attacks on our lives, these events were caused by discrimination, which is why we have formally contacted the INADI (belonging to the Ministry of Justice), which refused to help us at each instance of religious discrimination that we have suffered along these years.
7. We let you know that over 2012 we have initiated the procedure to officialize our Buddhist Temple at the Registry of Cult of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which denied our request by means of discriminatory arguments. For this reason, we request the reformation or elimination of such registry.
8. We let you know our desire that it is implemented a law that allows the change of name to members of religious or spiritual organizations in which this fact happens, as is the case of Buddhism and the original peoples, thus fulfilling the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
9. We let you know that in the past we have requested the land-title regularization to the government of the province of Buenos Aires, but we found out that this procedure was being delivered only to Catholic churches, which constitutes an act of state discrimination. In Argentina, Catholicism enjoys benefits over any other religion and Spirituality, so that we demand that this discriminatory situation ends promptly.
10. We let you know that there is no function, position or title of “Buddhist harmonizer” in Buddhism, so we recommend you to be very careful and pay attention when you speak in interviews about this issue. If you wish to learn about True Buddhism you have our free offering to do so under a qualified spiritual guidance, which will prevent you to fall into deceits of those who lower Buddhism to a mere alternative therapy, relaxation method, religion or self-help. Buddhism is a Revolutionary Path of Righteousness and Awakening.
11. We make you know our request of not inviting corrupt and billionaire gurus who defraud people. A genuine spiritual master must be poor, yet he or she should not have accusations for crimes against humanity either.
12. We would like you to know about our offering that our Buddhist School teaches a Career in Human Rights and Ecology at no cost to thousands of people with your national sponsorship.
13. We let you know about our willingness to meet for a private hearing to talk to you about said ethical judgment that our Tribunal has issued concerning 31 charges, given that the current Presidency seems to show no discrimination when accepting hearings. Furthermore, in said Sentence there are 31 possible solutions developed – that are ideas for draft laws or Decree – in order that the current Presidency can effectively resolve the Human Rights violations carried out by the previous president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, COVERING-UP OF TERRORIST ATTACKS, MAGNICIDE AND CONSPIRACY, THREATS, ILLEGAL ESPIONAGE, PERSECUTION OF JOURNALISTS AND ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, BIPOLARITY and MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE PRESIDENCY, ABORIGINAL EXCLUSION, ECOCIDE, FEMICIDE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, NEGATION OF INSECURITY AND POVERTY, CHILD MALNUTRITION and HEALTH CARE ABANDONMENT, RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION, ABUSE OF POWER and FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE DUTIES OF A PUBLIC SERVANT, VIOLENT REPRESSION AND POLICE ABUSE, TORTURE AND INHUMAN PRISON TREATMENT, ATTACK ON JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND COUP ATTEMPT, INJUSTICE, CORRUPTION and IMPUNITY, DRUG TRAFFICKING, MONEY LAUNDERING, DELEGITIMIZATION and POLITICAL USE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ELECTORAL FRAUD, MANIPULATION OF STUDENTS AND PORNOGRAPHY ON PUBLIC OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY, INFLUENCE PEDDLING and INCOMPATIBLE NEGOTIATIONS, NEGLIGENCE, POLITICAL CRONYISM and SLAVE LABOR, AUTHORITARIANISM, FASCISM and SCAMS.
14. We make you know that attached to this Notification we issue a new copy of the 31 charges together with the corresponding 31 solutions or recommendations made by our Tribunal.

 

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights invites the current Presidency of the Argentine Republic to consolidate and advance in the defense both of Human Rights and Environmental Rights, especially pledging to fulfill the Right to Peace. This involves a huge challenge, given the state of destruction left by the previous government. From the perspective of Buddhist Spirituality, the Presidency of the Argentine Republic must convert Human Rights into a practical and non-ideological center of all government practices, assuming ethical leadership that leaves place to humanism and righteousness in the core of governmental projects, in order to position Argentina as an exemplary country worldwide in terms of compliance, protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

In this regard, we call for urgent measures in order to: solve the AMIA and Nisman causes, respect indigenous or aboriginal peoples, eliminate illegal espionage, defend freedom of expression, supervising mental health of the presidents of all powers of the State, resolve the problem of Ecocide as destruction of nature, defending the rights of women, defending the security of the people without resorting to violent repression, healing poverty and malnutrition without practicing  crony capitalism, make no discrimination, not to abuse of power, promote the purification of justice, combating narco-corruption, promote direct democracy and human rights as ways of fighting against authoritarianism and fascism, prohibit pornography at all levels of education, make that public officials respond with their assets in face of failures in their administration.

We emphasize the need to broaden the judgments for crimes against humanity, in order that not only are dedicated to those who practiced state terrorism, but also to judge those who practiced civil terrorism, or even those powerful religious organizations that took part in any of these terrorist sides and now commit violations against the rights of children.

The defense on Human Rights, especially the Right to a healthy and peaceful life, is the cornerstone of the civilization of the future, since it is the main pathway that the peoples have to ensure their Dignity, Salvation and Evolution.

We hope that the current government of Argentina solves all crimes and discriminations that we have formally denounced in this notification, with Mindfulness to the ethical interventions and proposals that our Buddhist Tribunal has made. In this context, it is essential that the good intentions of the current Presidency go hand in hand with righteous measures, which is driven by Buddhist Spirituality for all free and adequate life.

Although until the moment we have only received indifference by the Argentine State, we never lose our hope in the intrinsic goodness of humankind. The only Cure to the problems of Argentina is the happening of this compassionate wisdom that lies dormant in the minds and hearts of the people.

 

Sincerely, with a spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Buddhist Master Maitreya

Spiritual Guide and President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

Case Number 10/2015: Argentine Government

 

JUDGMENT AND ETHICAL CONCLUSION

 

Dear Prosecutor, Executive Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR), regarding the case denounced by the World Association of Buddhism (WBA) against the Government of Argentina and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, through this document, on the day December 15, 2015,[1] I confirm that it is concluded the tenth case of the Buddhist Tribunal to analyze the violation to Human Rights carried out by the Argentine government and its responsible President.

After the enormous amount of evidence presented and certified as valid it has proceeded with the vote of 5 Jury members, confirming that by a majority of 4-1 they sentenced the Government of Argentina (President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner) as “Responsible” for the grave crimes of Crimes against Humanity, Human Rights Violations, Violation of the Rights of Tribal Peoples, Ecocide and Corruption.  Since these actions violate the ethical precepts of Buddhism, such as the five abstentions to harm other living beings, stealing, inappropriate sexual behavior, lying and taking drugs, it is considered that the Argentine government and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner violated Human Rights of the entire Argentine people, using the poor in a perverse and manipulative way to maintain an essentially authoritarian power. Despite the fact that all governments are oppressive structures that violate the fundamental freedoms of individuals, the case of Argentine government and its President Cristina de Kirchner has an additional morbidity, because it has been used the flag of the defense on Human Rights to perpetuate criminal acts, dividing society through policies of greed, hatred and delusion, which, according to Buddhist Ethics, are the embodiment of evil in the world.

Therefore, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights rules that the Spirituality created by Master Siddharta Gautama, as a pathway that is genuinely defender of Human Rights, must sentence the Argentine Government and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner since they are in violation of Human Rights, because it has even conducted Crimes Against Humanity by not only having been covered up terrorist acts qualified as genocide but also for being responsible for the murder and concealment of Prosecutor Nisman who had denounced said complicity with international terrorism, reason why it is requested the Argentine State to take appropriate measures to make Justice and not allow these Human Rights violations remain unpunished. This request is an understanding based on that impunity is the main evil that attempts against the welfare of the peoples, deeply damaging the social fabric by destroying the bonds of interexistence existing between peoples, because hope and trust in a better world are essential to properly survive.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights formally recognizes that the government of Argentina and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner carried out crimes against humanity, developing a populist and authoritarian system of crony capitalism which day after day violated Human Rights under the pretext of having been electorally chosen. This has demonstrated that this government systematically behaved as a dictatorship of the majority, leading society to an intrinsically sickly lifestyle based on the constant negation of reality. Faced with this fascist system that threatens harmony of the whole population, Buddhism is positioned as a Path of Law (Dharma) which criticizes and rectifies in order to prevent reoccurrence of such violations to Human Rights. This involves helping future generations through the ethical guidance of present generations. Thus, Buddhist Spirituality is a movement fighting for the Right to the Adequate life of the entire humanity and the whole nature, so that it also denounces that the Argentine government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been committing grave criminal offenses as Ecocide, which not only violates the Human Right to Health but it can be also considered a terrorist attack against Mother Earth.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has the spiritual commitment to lead all the peoples to Salvation, so that its purpose (Dharma) in the world is to transmit righteousness facing the problems that endanger world peace, social justice, advanced education and ecological harmony. This implies to criticize governments and corporations that violate Human Rights and Environmental Rights, but also involves Mindfulness to the behavior of individuals, as people must also respect and fulfill the Human and Environmental Rights. Since compassionate wisdom (prajna-karuna) compels Buddhism, that is a Path of Love and Justice, to denounce the evil aims of governments, companies and individuals who covet, hate and deceive, then we exercise our ethical position and reaffirm that the Argentine government and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner have committed Lese Humanity Crimes. All movement fighting for Good cannot omit be issued in this regard, since otherwise it would have an indirect complicity in the violation of Human and Environmental Rights.

Although the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights does not issue any criminal or financial penalties it undoubtedly issues ethical judgments about the Responsibility of corrupt, criminal, delusional, oppressive and authoritarian governments that violate Human and Environmental Rights, such as the Argentine Government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. As from the Buddhism’s supreme commitment with Detachment, Reconciliation and Truth, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights makes ethical judgments or spiritual decisions aimed at combating evil in the world. Therefore, in the face of the Argentine Government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner we sentence that they are responsible for all charges, including charges of Lese Humanity Crimes, since the corrupt and authoritarian measures taken by said President have derived in covering up of terrorists acts and also in the assassination of Prosecutor Nisman, an event that has been the most terrible event in the history of contemporary democracy in Argentina. Ergo, we demand the Argentine State for a prompt solution of all charges in which we found Responsibility by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that attempts against Human Rights, especially providing a prompt solution to the systematic violations of Justice in order to stop a terrible cycle of impunity. Love and Justice are spiritual values intrinsic to the Path or Law (Dharma), so that the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights peacefully struggles against governmental lies that attempt to conceal violations to Human Rights. In conclusion, the Buddhist Spirituality concludes that in order to adequately solve the problems of the State of Argentine Republic, governments must banish all kinds of greed, hatred and delusion, helping the people to provide peace, social justice, education and ecology. Despite the fact that over several years it was developed a fundamentalism fanaticism similar to religious, all attempts by the Argentine government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to deny the existence of terrible problems such as poverty and delinquency have failed not only because these evils cannot be hidden, but because much of society has chosen to live better, by deciding to leave to be represented by that corrupt and authoritarian government.

Following in the footsteps of the Master Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has proceeded against the Argentine Government and its President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner due to a series of charges which can be summarized as Crimes Against Humanity, in addition to incur the international crime of Ecocide, which is clearly a full proof that such government never believed in Human Rights, but it has used prestigious non-governmental organizations to get ethical legitimacy and hide its flagrant levels of corruption, inefficiency and delusions. Obviously, these crimes committed by the Argentine government took place with the direct or indirect complicity of countries such as Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador, which endorsed much of what happened during 12 years of Argentine government for reasons of Latin American comradeship. But it must also be said that these Crimes Against Humanity happened with the complicit silence of the Vatican, which has indirectly given its endorsement for probably obscure reasons which will be promptly investigated by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights.

 

As a way of ethical conclusion, given the unique position of having a Republic system practically devastated and plundered by the accused government, then the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights makes a series of spiritual recommendations for solving each of the Evidences of the Case against Argentine government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

1. Cover-up of Terrorist Attacks: Facing the depth of the denunciation carried out by the Prosecutor Nisman against the Argentine Government for cover-up and alliance with international terrorism, it is recommended the creation of a “Special Court of International Crimes” that is composed of flawless Argentine jurists in order to analyze the denunciation and carry out the corresponding investigation with all resources it deserves. It is also recommended to cut trade ties with Irani government, which has been accused of being responsible for the terrorist attacks in Argentina, and punished it financially and even presenting the case to the United Nations (UN) in order that the defendants face justice. 2.
2. Magnicide and Conspiracy: Facing the terrible event of the assassination of Prosecutor Nisman and its subsequent government conspiracy process to cover up and not investigate this assassination, it is recommended the Republic of Argentina considers this death as a State Crime, performing a serious and adequate investigation which is supervised by international Human Rights organizations in order to reach Truth and Justice. It is also recommended to investigate the prosecutor Fein who is in charge of the investigation for participating in the cover-up.
3. Threats: Faced with cases of threats suffered by politicians or which are made by public officials, it is recommended the creation of a Governmental Secretary with ministerial rank overseeing this type of such serious crimes that affect the functioning of democratic institutions.
4. Illegal Espionage: Faced with the use of espionage for purposes of political, economic, ideological or cultural persecution, both on citizens and on organizations, it is recommended that intelligence services of the State disappear or are supervised by Non-Governmental Organizations and activists defenders of Human Rights.
5. Persecution to journalists and attack to freedom of expression: In face of the attacks received by independent journalists for expressing ideas and information which are contrary to the status quo of Power, it is recommended to create a Law that declares Journalism as a public good, by protecting this valuable cultural practice from any attempt of governmental Power to turn journalism into propaganda.
6. Bipolarity and mental illness in presidency: Faced with the seriousness that implies the possibility that a President suffers mental illness and he or she lacks any supervision, it is recommended the creation of a Law that establishes the obligatoriness of Mental Treatment within the presidential medical team, by incorporating psychologists and psychoanalysts, who shall perform weekly checks on the mental health of the President.
7. Aboriginal exclusion: In face of the oppression and exclusion suffered by thousands of people who are part of aboriginal and native communities in Argentina, it is recommended that “UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” is converted into State policy in the Argentine Republic. It is also recommended that indigenous peoples or aboriginal communities be declared as Defenders of Nature and World Citizens. In addition, it is required to declare the “Pilagá Slaughter” of 1947 as acts of “Genocide”, “Ethnic Cleansing” and “Crimes against Humanity”.
8. Ecocide: Facing the environmental destruction suffered in Argentina, through deforestation, mining and pollution of air and water, it is recommended to comply with the Human Right to a healthy environment by prohibiting these practices that are harmful to health and the welfare of the people. It is also recommended to endorse the “Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth” created in Bolivia.
9. Femicide: Faced with the daily violence suffered by thousands of women throughout Argentina, it is recommended to create an Emergency Law against Femicide, by developing measures for the prevention and protection of these cases of violence.
10. Human trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: Faced with the rawness that represents human trafficking, it is recommended banning all kinds of practices associated with sex trade; by creating a Law that firmly punishes these practices.
11. Negation of insecurity: Facing the phenomenon of insecurity which is product of the enormous number of robberies and murders that occur in Argentina, it is recommended a process of purging or cleansing of all police forces. It is also recommended to assume the realization that insecurity and crime are not overcome with a greater number of policemen, since these phenomena can be overcome only if impunity and poverty are vanished.
12. Negation of poverty: Faced with the scandalous number of poor people in Argentina, it is recommended to create a “Ministry for the Fight against Poverty”, which shall take care of promoting a plan of work, education and healthcare specifically designed for the poorest areas in the country. It is also recommended that the State of Argentina returns the FAO Prize recently received for fighting poverty, because this award is spurious for having been won based on falsified statistics provided by the Argentine government.
13. Child malnutrition and y Health care abandonment: Faced with the large number of deaths from child malnutrition, it is recommended to create a Law that considers this death type as “Homicide”. It is also recommended as a state policy to take responsibility for the physical and psychological well-being of every child across the country by creating thousands of centers where free meals are distributed and psychological and spiritual support are also provided at no cost.
14. Religious discrimination: Facing the problem which implies that a particular religion enjoys additional benefits over other religions, as is the case with Catholicism, it is recommended the creation of a Law which derogate the Culture Secretariat under the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this secretariat being replaced with a “National Register of Spiritual Entities” which commits no discrimination. It is also recommended for ethical reasons that the Argentine government does not hire nor officially invite international supposed “gurus” who have court cases or have millionaire bank accounts, since they themselves are a lack of respect to Spirituality, which is a lifestyle of Purity and Humility.
15. Abuse of Power and Failure to comply with the duties of a public servant: Faced with the huge number of violations caused by the government of Argentina, whose public officials have been indiscriminately enriched through irregular mechanisms, it is recommended a Law to reformulate the supervision of these cases, which must be in the hands of non-governmental organizations, since government and state often lack ethics to investigate themselves.
16. Violent repression and police abuse: Facing the large number of cases of violent repression by the police forces it is recommended eliminating these forces or starting a general purge process that provides a qualitative leap, like the implementation of a Law which forces policemen to be graduates of university careers.
17. Tortures and inhuman prison treatment: Facing cases of torture and prison treatment that violate Human Rights, it is recommended the transformation of prisons or confinement centers into advanced rehabilitation institutes where a psychological, academic and spiritual service are offered to criminals, even providing them the possibility to work, as long as the criminal will be assigned additionally a monetary fine for the committed crime, which shall be paid for the rest of his / her life.
18. Attack on judicial Independence and Coup attempt: Faced with government attempts to violate the independence of the judicial Power of State, it is recommended the prohibition that judges and prosecutors analyze cases of officials belonging to the political party they publicly support. It is also recommended to create a Law that compels judges and prosecutors to continue their education in other academic fields of knowledge for the rest of their lives.
19. Injustice: Facing a stream of juridical guarantees which actually benefits the governmental impunity and corruption, it is recommended not to lower penalties but reformulating the entire educational system, by incorporating ethics and Spirituality with the Purpose to prevent crime rather than not punish it. It is also recommended the implementation of “Trial by Jury” throughout Argentina as a form of democratization of Justice, which is already contained in the Constitution even though it was never implemented.
20. Corruption and Impunity: Against the disastrous level of corruption and impunity that exists in Argentina, it is recommended to provide vast resources to the Anticorruption Office. It is also recommended the creation of a national Law to make public officials responsible with their own personal patrimony in the face of economic losses that occur under their responsibility. It is further recommended that Argentina ratifies the “United Nations Convention against Corruption” by Law.
21. Drug trafficking: Facing the great growth of drug trafficking in Argentina, which has been developed thanks to the direct complicity of the government, it is recommended that the Argentine State endorses the creation of the “Latin American and Caribbean Court against organized crime (COPLA)” which is a project created by the Argentine former deputy Fernando Iglesias.
22. Money laundering: Facing the development of this illegal mechanism associated with organized crime, it is recommended that money laundering is considered as serious as drug trafficking itself.
23. Delegitimization and political use of the Human Rights: Facing the huge damage made by the Argentine government to the image of Human Rights, by using the ethical stamp of these values to commit crimes, then it is proposed the creation of a Law that states that Human Rights are a State Policy. It is also recommended to create a Ministry specifically on Human Rights, which has a separate and independent functioning from the Ministry of Justice, and that is led by representatives of leftist parties, which are those with more knowledge about this important matter. At the same time, it is recommended that the Argentine State maintains genuine critical positions with respect to other countries that violate Democracy and Human Rights, even if they were countries with which it has important economic agreements, being able even to break such agreements when there are flagrant violations to Human Rights.
24. Electoral fraud: Faced with cases of fraud that occur in the Argentine fragile electoral system, it is recommended the implementation not only of the electronic ballot but also of a system of “participatory and direct democracy” which is based on frequent non-obligatory popular consultations concerning governmental and legislative measures. In addition, it is recommended the prohibition that political parties present a single candidate during the primaries.
25. Manipulation of students, Sadomasochism and Pornography in official public University: Faced with the political manipulation of students and the practices of pornography and sadomasochism in Public Official Universities, which are kept with the money of all citizens, it is recommended the creation of a Law which strongly prohibits these immoral practices that harm the spiritual welfare and cultural development of students while at the same time they attempt against the international quality of the Argentine education in the eyes of the world. It is also recommended to create a “National Register of Non-Governmental Education” in which unofficial or non-formal educational institutions can be incorporated, because there are many of these institution which have much knowledge to provide, by nurturing and revitalizing the entire educational system of the Argentine State.
26. Influence peddling and incompatible negotiations: Faced with cases of spurious business involving the highest spheres of governmental Power, it is recommended the prohibition that public officials are involved in lucrative activities while exercising the public function.
27. Negligence: Faced with cases of deaths by public transports accidents or fires due to lack of control by state officials, it is recommended to consider these deaths as Homicides, as they have been caused by the inefficiency and corruption of the governmental Power.
28. Political cronyism and slave labor: Facing the use of the poor for political and electoral purposes, it is recommended to consider these practices as violative of Human Rights, being capable of operating with the full force of Law against politicians who incur this immorality. It is also recommended that slave labor is criminally considered as a form of kidnapping.
29. Authoritarianism: Faced with authoritarian methodologies on the part of Presidential Power, it is recommended to limit governmental power and that it is simultaneously supervised constantly by the legislature, by the judiciary, by popular consultations and by journalism.
30. Fascism: Faced with cases in which a public servant of any charge incurred in fascist speeches or ideas, it is recommended to implement immediately the mechanism of impeachment in order to investigate in detail the ideological vision of that official. It is also recommended to create a Law that prohibits exerting public offices to anyone with fascist notions that constitute an attack on Human Rights.
31. Scams: Faced with cases in which public officials incur scams, the adequate mechanisms for their prompt and correct removal from office should be created.

 

It is known by spiritual masters that any condition of conflict implies an opportunity for change. Thus, in understanding that the Republic of Argentina is in a deplorable condition there is an opportunity for its Salvation, being able to assume a refoundational process of a new Republic. However, this event does not merely requires the intervention of new political representatives, but rather it means assuming a Commitment to Peace, Justice, Truth and Interexistence. This event cannot be built without the ethical legacy of the great Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) of history. It is only in this way that it will be established the transformation that involves the revolution of the refoundational happening of Argentina. This new Metapolitical Path means building a social movement that overcomes all divisions and antagonisms, by assuming the power of reconciliation as its practice of life. It is because of the Openness (Sunyata) of Buddhism which always embodied a revolutionary vocation that ethics can contribute to this refoundational process, helping to constitute a new society which passes from an oppressive reality to a liberating reality. The construction of a people that is free from political, economic and cultural hegemony demands the inescapable presence of detached leaders who assume the ethical legacy of Perennial Spirituality, knowing to incarnate the force of Love and Justice to help the people in their project of emancipation and self-determination. The ethics of Detachment will be then the face of the future leaders, who shall know very well that the real wealth of the people lies not in money but in the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

 

Sincerely,

With a spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

Spiritual Judge and President of International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

[1] Updated on February 17, 2017

Case 08/2015: Australia

LEGAL ACT ON AUSTRALIA

 

Dear World Government Summit,

On December 23, 2016, we are communicating to make an International Repudiation to the award your organization has given to Greg Hunt, former Minister of Environment of Australia, awarding him as the best minister in the world. This repudiation is due to the fact that former Minister Greg Hunt was sentenced by our Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights for the crimes of Persecution and Animal Extermination, Ecocide, Deforestation and Maritime Pollution. In fact, this Ministry of Environment carried out a policy of denying global warming, by attacking environmental organizations, polluting the Great Barrier Reef, and increasing mining and carbon emissions.

Moreover, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has evidence that the Australian Government has not only violated Animal and Ecosystem Rights, but Human Rights has also been violated, since it provides abusive treatment to refugees who are seeking asylum within Australia, by imprisoning them in detention centers similar to concentration camps where thousands of women and children have been sexually abused, as evidenced by the thousands of cases collected in the Nauru archives. In itself, these serious violations are unlawful privations of freedom and systematic sexual abuse, which constitute crimes against humanity. There is even evidence that by rejecting refugees and expelling them to other countries, the Australian government committed smuggling of persons. From these acts which violate international human rights treaties on refugees, the Australian government decided to reduce its collaboration with the UN. This abusive treatment toward refugees is based on racism that the Australian government has historically had toward Aboriginal peoples and Asian immigrants, so it is not a new phenomenon.

In conclusion, former Minister Greg Hunt not only is not the best minister in the World, but he also was one of the worst ministers in the world, having been part of a government that is violating International Law. In this regard, the award given to former Minister Greg Hunt is spurious, and Australia is also declared as a country that violates Human Rights. If the world’s political leaders continue oppressing and mocking peoples, by awarding those who do evil and ignoring those who do the good, then the contemporary civilization will fall sooner than expected.

 

Always with spirit of reconciliation,

Master Maitreya

President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case number 08/2015:  Australia

 

JUDGEMENT AND ETHICAL CONCLUSION

 

Dear Prosecutor, Executive Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR).  Regarding the case reported by the World Association of Buddhism (WBA) against the Government of Australia and its environment minister Greg Hunt, through the present, on day November 1, 2015, I put on record that it is concluded the eighth case of the Buddhist Tribunal in order to analyze the violation of Animal Rights and the Rights of Mother Earth, carried out by the Government of Australia and its responsible minister.

After the vast amount of evidence presented and certified as valid, it has proceeded with the vote of six members of the Jury, confirming that all of them have sentenced the Government of Australia as “Responsible” for the serious crimes of PERSECUTION and EXTERMINATION OF ANIMALS, ECOCIDE, DEFORESTATION and MARINE POLLUTION. Given that these actions break the ethical precepts of Buddhism, such as refraining from harming other living beings, it was considered that the government of Australia completely violates the animal rights of millions of living beings, while at the same time being perverse the way how it is mistreating and torturing Mother Earth. In fact, every government is inherently an oppressive system that violates the Buddhist Ethics, the Animal Rights and the Rights of Mother Earth, although in the case of Australia they are being committed morbid crimes, such as the attempt of extermination of millions of cats along with the destruction of forests, which respectively are essential for the emotional life and physical health of the entire humankind.

Therefore, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights rules that the Spirituality created by Master Siddharta Gautama, as a way of engagement with the spiritual evolution of the whole system of life, must sentence the Government of Australia and the Environment Minister Greg Hunt for committing Ecocide, which is a crime against humanity according to the most cutting edge visions in the field of international law, reason by which it is requested the government of Australia to stop with this behavior destructive of life. This understanding shows that the extermination of animals and ecosystems is a crime as important as the genocide of human peoples, so that all project of global harmony must include respect for the ecological interexistence between humanity, the rest of the species and the Mother Earth (Gaia).

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights formally recognizes Ecocide as a crime against world peace, so that it must be pursued along with terrible crimes such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In this sense, since contemporary civilization produces an extensive damage or destruction of ecosystems, wild capitalism is a crime against humanity and against Mother Earth (Gaia), being a lifestyle inherently ecocidal. In the face of this system destructive of the environment that threatens health and peace of all living beings, Buddhism struggles to prevent the occurrence of such losses. This involves helping the peoples of the present, by taking care of the sanitary conditions of the poor and the cultural life of the aborigins, but it also means creating healthy conditions of existence for future generations. In this way, the Buddhist Spirituality is the movement which has most fought for the Right to a Healthy Living in the history of all of humankind, simultaneously considering that human beings are in a state of interexistence with other living beings, so they should avoid pollution and ecocide. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has the planetary and universal obligation of doing good, avoiding evil and purifying the mind of all humankind, reason why its mission is to avoid jeopardizing the appropriate survival of the world. Instead, governments and transnational corporations only seek accumulation of power and assets, not respecting the human rights, the animal rights nor the earth rights. This situation makes Buddhism exerts its position of Justice or Superior Law (Dharma) to denounce the evils of the world, so that one of its aims is nothing less than teaching International Law with humanitarian, wise and compassionate characteristics. This Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights practices the juridical duty to protect peace and health of humanity and of Mother Earth (Gaia), by denouncing that when people, businesses and governments perpetrate acts of Ecocide they are undermining human, natural and spiritual rights. Indeed, the rights of humanity and the rights of nature are mutually interrelated with the aim of a peaceful and healthy life, so that Buddhism fights against crimes of ecocide, cultural ecocide and crimes against future generations. Although the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights is not able to issue prison sentences or economic penalties, it certainly has the responsibility to issue ethical judgments that are a commitment with the Truth. Precisely, this implies a new model of Justice, by replacing the model of imprisonment for a model that assigns responsibilities in pursuit of a restorative justice, always evaluating the size, duration and impact of the destruction of ecosystems. As from Buddhism’s supreme commitment with Peace, Justice, Truth and Interexistence, the world governments should consider any ethical judgment or spiritual decision of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, whose independent and responsible position is one of the best ways to reach the peak knowledge and universal harmony. Therefore, in view of the fact that the government officials of Australia have committed an ecocidal use of the environment, we sentence their higher responsibility by ordering an immediate suspension of the environmental destructive operations and an immediate restoration of the damages committed, which implies an order of protection over the millions of living beings that compose nature, but it also implies the recognition of the decrease in health and welfare of the peoples inhabiting the territories damaged. The welfare and health of Mother Earth implies to recognize areas where ecocides are committed, so that the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has no limits for its international jurisdiction, thus establishing that all sorts of governmental or business statements trying to cover evidences of Ecocide are false since it is a crime against humanity and the Mother Earth. In conclusion, the Buddhist Spirituality concludes that, in order to properly confront global warming, governments of the world should evaporate all kinds of governmental deceit, by helping environmental organizations to build a better world. Any attempt to deny the serious threats suffered by nature, then will be intrinsically conspiratorial for the health of both humankind and the living planet.

Following in the footsteps of Master Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has proceeded against the Government of Australia for persecuting and exterminate animals in addition to deforesting forests and pollute the seas, which is clearly a full evidence of Ecocide that violates both the Human Rights, as well as the Animal Rights and the Rights of Mother Earth.

 

Cordially,

With spirit of Reconciliation (maitri),

Buddhist Master Maitreya

Spiritual Guide and President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

Case 06-2015: Surabaya Zoo

 

NOTIFICATION to Borås Djurpark (Boras Zoo)

 

On January 21, 2018, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights communicates with Bo Kjellson, director of the Boras Zoo, following the tragic episode in which this company ordered the murder of 9 infant healthy lions for reasons of space. The press has disseminated this episode as a sacrifice, although the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that the correct legal classification for these criminal acts would be multiple homicides. Although the Swedish law still does not consider advanced animals as non-human beings with full civil rights, this situation will inevitably change during the 21st century, as is evidenced by contemporary international jurisprudence and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Non-Human Beings, where the civil rights of advanced mammal animals gradually begins to be recognized.

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights clearly considers that the murder of defenseless advanced animals, especially cubs, is violating the sacredness of life and constitutes one of the main violations of Buddhist Law. In fact, in the past, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has publicly denounced the eugenics programs of the JYLLANDS PARK ZOO, where mass public assassinations of giraffes were carried out. Obviously, these murderous acts demonstrate the profound lack of respect that zoos have toward all forms of life, ignoring and not knowing that in sentient beings the same sacrality of human life is latent: the spiritual or dharmic nature.

In this sense, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal of Human Rights classifies all the murders carried out by the zoos of the world as criminal, and being nothing more than illegal prisons, thus warning CEO Bo Kjellson of Boras Zoo that in case of persist with these homicidal activities they will be legally denounced, as was done to the government of Australia for the ecocide plan of millions of feral cats.

Finally, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights provides total solidarity to all the sentient beings of the world, fighting for the recognition of their intrinsic dignity, especially for their right to life and liberty, which is recognized and protected in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Non-Human Beings. Thus, unconditional and altruistic love is offered to all animals of the world, especially when they are deprived of their life, liberty or health.

With spirit of Reconciliation (Maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case 06/2015: Surabaya Zoo

ACT ON JYLLANDS PARK ZOO

Dear EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIA (EAZA),

Through this act, on December 25, 2016, we communicate in order to perform an International Repudiation to JYLLANDS PARK ZOO, which follows the directive of its association. This repudiation is not only due to in the Judgment of the Case of Surabaya Zoo it is stated that every zoo is intrinsically violating Buddhist Spirituality, but also because the JYLLANDS PARK ZOO is an organization that has carried out public killings of the animals which it should protect, since recently this zoo has killed a giraffe so that future giraffes have better genes. In fact, there are evidences that this zoo carries out several animal killings per year in order to maintain a genetically healthy population, which is clearly analogous to the eugenics and selective breeding programs of Nazism where those subjects who carry supposedly defective genes are eliminated. In addition, not only did they refuse to accept hundreds of petitions to save the animal’s life, but also the way to kill this healthy young giraffe was a spectacle of huge cruelty in presence of children, when murdering and dismembering that animal to finally give it to the lions. Paradoxically, months after this episode, this same zoo carried out a murder of four lions for reasons of space.

At the same time that NGOs around the world have considered these facts to be unethical, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights certainly affirms that the behavior of the JYLLANDS PARK ZOO – with the endorsement and complicity of the EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIA (EAZA) is violating the most essential Animal Rights, such as the right to life, health and freedom. Although every zoo is nothing but a prison for animals, the JYLLANDS PARK ZOO resembles to the Case of Surabaya Zoo on the levels of cruelty and indifference to the sacredness and intrinsic dignity of every sentient being, which seems to be a norm in Europeans zoos where thousands of healthy animals are killed each year for genetic reasons or for reasons of space. In this way, it is requested that this zoo immediately ceases its illegal activities which violate Ethics and International Law.

In conclusion, there appear to be mammals with a higher level of feelings and sensitivity even greater than those human beings who run zoos around the world, which are nothing more than perverse circuses or illegal detention centers that should be closed and transformed into sanctuaries for protecting life. If life and integrity of animals are not protected, there will never be world peace.

Always with a reconciling spirit,

Master Maitreya

President of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Case number 06/2015: Surabaya Zoo

 

JUDGMENT AND ETHICAL CONCLUSION

 

Dear Prosecutor, Executive Secretary and Members of the Jury of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR), in respect of the case reported by the International Association of Maitriyana (IAM) against the Surabaya Zoo, by means of this document, on September 1, 2015, I confirm that it is concluded the sixth case of the Buddhist Tribunal in order to analyze the Animal Rights violation by the Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia.

After the enormous amount of evidence presented and certified as valid, it has proceeded to the voting of 3 members of the Jury, confirming that the three of them have sentenced as “Responsible” to the Surabaya Zoo for serious crime of Mistreatment, Torture and Animal Neglect. Given that these actions violate the ethical precepts of Buddhism, such as abstaining from harming other sentient beings, it was considered that the Surabaya Zoo completely violates the Animal Rights of thousands of living beings and it is also an aberration how they mistreat and torture animals with respect to any other zoo in the world. In fact, every zoo is inherently an oppressive system that violates the principles of Buddhist Spirituality, though in this case it is being committed an additional morbidity through a clear torture, abuse and neglect of animals.

Therefore, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights rules that the Spirituality created by Master Siddharta Gautama, as a way of engagement with the salvation of all sentient beings, must to denounce the Surabaya Zoo as Torturer, by recommending simultaneously both to the Indonesian government and to the international community the Zoo’s permanent closure. This understanding demonstrates that mistreatment of animals is a crime as important as the torture of human beings, reason why any world peace project should include ecological harmony with the rest of the species that inhabit the great body of Mother Earth (Gaia).

Following in the footsteps of the Master Siddhartha Gautama, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has decided to proceed against the Surabaya Zoo for mistreating, torturing and neglecting animals, reason by which testimonies and photographic evidence have been studied, proving that all these crimes violate the Rights of Animals.

 

Cordially,

With spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Buddhist Master Maitreya

Spiritual Guide and President of International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

Case 06/2015:

Surabaya Zoo, Indonesia

 

HONOURABLE JURY OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST ETHICS COMMITTEE (IBEC) AND BUDDHIST TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS (BTHR)

P R E S E N T.–

 

In the presence of the President and Spiritual Guide of IBEC-BTHR, Buddhist Master Maitreya and the Executive Secretary of IBEC-BTHR, Master Yan Maitri-Shi, it is addressed the case reported by the International Association of Maitriyana (IAM) against the SURABAYA ZOO regarding the Crimes of MISTREATMENT, TORTURE AND ANIMAL NEGLECT and Others, being a clear and grievous violation and disrespect for the animal life secluded at this Zoo, both on charge of the Directors and / or Managers, Employees of the place and Visitors.-

 

I, Sekkha Dhamma, as Prosecutor of the IBEC and BTHR, recognize the hard and organized work that was performed for the wide evidence gathering in this case, similarly, I appreciate the contribution of them for the analysis concerning the party I represent. That said, with all due respect I appear to expound:

Received the list of digital media which were collected, ordered and at the same time confirmed in their order and context as Evidences by the Executive Secretary of IBEC and BTHR Master Yan Maitri-Shi, I give start of the Third Stage of the Procedure called “EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE” which is established in the Constitutive Act of IBEC and BTHR in order to know, establish, dictate and determine the Responsibility for committing the Crimes of MISTREATMENT, TORTURE, ANIMAL NEGLECT and Others that SURABAYA ZOO, its directors and / or managers and their employees are found responsible, thereby proceeding in the Violation of the Rights of Animals that are secluded and confined there in deplorable places, which report appalling conditions and where animals,  besides being deprived of their freedom, lack of balanced diet and quality assurance in their food, of an adequate, decent place in accordance with their species and needs, by suffering depression, severe illness and advanced pathological physical state because of negligence, lack of care, lack of knowledge in dealing with the various species and lack of specialized and permanent veterinary care. This Accusation was made by the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MAITRIYANA (IAM) in the field of Buddhist Ethics, an act that follows below:

 

EVALUATION OF EVIDENCES

FIRST EVALUATION.- By being the core of this procedural instance, it is necessary to note the Means of Proof offered by the Executive Secretary of IBEC-BTHR Master Yan Maitri-Shi, and formally present them to the Jury for their knowledge, that are composed of 16 evidence that proves the motivating Accusation of the current process, entitled with a wide range of Crimes committed against the animals of Surabaya zoo. The above is reported from the field of Buddhist Ethics. This evidence comes from digital audiovisual media in the public domain (mass media), same ones that are listed below:

 

Evidence 1: MISTREATMENT AND TORTURE OF ANIMALS

Trevor B., from Australia: “The mistreatment of the animals started to attract widespread condemnation in 2010. In that year, the Jakarta Post labelled KBS as the Surabaya Zoo of Death.” (…) “When the zoo relocated several hippopotami, the animals were physically beaten and injured during the process.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

[Photos (Image 1 and 2 of Photographic Evidence) of an elephant whose legs are deeply cut because of what the Zoo uses as a sort of ankle bracelet to deprive it of mobility]( http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_3.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_4.htm )

SYBELLE FOXCROFT, Conservationist of Cee4Life, said about Melani, a Sumatran Tiger with her organs so damaged that she is unable to absorb requisite nutrients from her food and can’t maintain necessary condition: “She’s a creature that’s been neglected and abused inside a zoo that is deemed to care for her. To see an animal struggle through this sort of thing you know she wants to live. It’s her will that’s keeping her alive.”]( http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2013/s3894606.htm )

 

Evidence 2: DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS OF FACILITIES

Tony Sumampau, the head of the Indonesian Zoological Parks Association and now a consultant to the zoo said: “The holding facilities were shocking, wet all the time. Most of the animals … died because they got pneumonia, lung disease, TB, or from digestion problems because of the food supply.” (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald: “Last month, Rezak, another Sumatran tiger, died. He was old but also had lung disease contracted in a tiny, permanently damp, cage.” (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

 

Evidence 3: STARVED ANIMALS BECAUSE OF MALNUTRITION AND INSUFFICIENT FUNDS

Trevor B., from Sydney, Australia said: “The zoo does not have the cashflow needed to feed, house and breed the animals in it’s care. Entry is less than US$2.00 per person. It does not generate enough. Subsequently, the animals are maltreated and underfed.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

[Photo (Image 8 of Photographic Evidence) of an animal, appears to be a dromedary, which is in an advanced state of malnutrition and leanness.] ( http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_8.htm )

ERIN SKARDA, from TIME: “According to a recent article by Trisnadi Marjan of the Associated Press, approximately 15 animals at the zoo die every month — a figure that has actually decreased from two years ago — suffering from preventable diseases, hunger, lack of exercise and overcrowding.” (http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/15/the-disturbing-state-of-indonesias-zoo-of-death/ )

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald said: “The zoo’s entrance fee was just 4500 rupiah (48¢) per person, but even from that paltry income, the former owners took a profit.” (…) “Singleton, the director of the Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Program and a former zookeeper at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, says Indonesia’s 40 zoos are still highly unregulated and simply milking the small entrance fees. All but a handful fail to meet international standards, he says.”(http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

 

Evidence 4: ANIMALS IN REDUCED SPACES OR DEPRIVED OF MINIMAL MOVILITY

Trevor B., from Australia said: “Tigers are kept locked in small concrete cells because they do not have enough room to exercise. They are allowed out of their damp cells for only 3 days for every 10 they are locked up.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

[Photo (Images 2, 3 and 4 of Photographic Evidence) of an elephant that is chained in both  their back and front legs, not allowing the possibility of any movement.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_2.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_4.htm )

[Photos (Images 9 and 10 of Photographic Evidence) of a bengal tiger enclosed in a totally limited space.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_9.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_10.htm )

[Photo (Image 15 of Photographic Evidence) of a hippo in a reduced space.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_18.htm )

Agus Supangkat, a spokesman for the zoo’s old management team, said: “This zoo is very old and its cages outdated, (…) They are like prison cells, putting stress especially on the big mammals.”( http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/08/zoo-official-issues-dire-warning-about-the-treatment-of-animals-at-indonesias-surabaya-zoo.html )

 

Evidence 5: SURPLUS OF ANIMALS IN A CAGE

[Photo of pelicans (Image 11 of Photographic Evidence), which do not have necessary space in order to unfold their wings due to lack of space.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_11.htm )

[Photo (Image 16 of the Photographic Evidence) of birds which seem to be herons in a little spacious cage.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_19.htm )

Alice Budisatrijo, from BBC news, said: “(…) pelicans and herons are crammed into an aviary measuring about 180 sq m (1,940 sq ft). (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531)

[In the following photo (Image 19 of Photographic Evidence) can be appreciated the little space that pelicans have in their cage.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166436 )

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “The cages, some built in the 1920s, were tiny and fraying, the animals so in-bred that deer had antlers growing out the front of their heads. The pelican cage is seriously over-crowded now, even after 70 birds were given to other zoos. Endangered Komodo dragons grew up with kinks in their bodies from inadequate space and sunlight.”(http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

 

Evidence 6: LACK OF HYGIENE AND BASIC CARE

[The following photo (Image 7 of Photographic Evidence) shows a tiger confined in a cage of a few square metres, which is totally devoid of hygiene and is unhealthy for the animal. In addition, the tiger shows obvious signs of malnutrition.]( https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

[In the following photo (Image 22 of Photographic Evidence) it can be seen dirt and rubbish left by visitors, which is a serious hazard to animals.]( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166438 )

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “When we visit the zoo, we see proboscis monkeys, in-bred and overpopulated, roaming freely in public areas and scavenging for food among the spillage from garbage bins. Barbary sheep chew on plastic bags. Monkeys argue over an ice-cream wrapper that blows into their enclosure. More rubbish floats by in their moat. (…) These conditions, though, are a vast improvement on what the animals endured three years ago.”( http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

 

Evidence 7: LACK OF APPROPRIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION

Trevor B., from Sydney, Australia said: “Some animals have chronic long term back and leg complaints because they cannot exercise.  Many have wasting digestive diseases from eating tainted meat.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

[In this photograph (Image 18 of the photographic evidence) it can be seen a white Bengal tiger in the quarantine zone Zoo, which suffers from spinal problems and is missing an ear. They can also be seen the bad conditions and narrowness of space.] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166435 )

[In the following photograph (Image 20 of photographic evidence) it can be seen a bear suffering from a tumor in the skin, which is in the quarantine section of the zoo. They can also be seen the deplorable conditions where it lies.]( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166434 )

[In this image (Image 21 of the photographic evidence) it can be seen a female elephant that suffers inflammation in its joints.]( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166440 )

Indra Harsaputra, from The Jakarta Post, said: “A Sumatran tiger at Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, died on early Thursday after suffering digestive and respiratory problems for two years (…)Internal conflict has plagued Surabaya Zoo since 1998 and peaked in 2007, when a number of animals died allegedly due to poor treatment. (…) On Sept.8, 2012, Santi, a white tiger, died due to paralysis. (…) Data show that almost 250 animals at Surabaya Zoo died in 2011, including a mountain goat that suffered digestive problems. An autopsy found plastic bags in its stomach. The zoo’s veterinary team also found 25 stones in the stomach of a dead crocodile. (…) From June to August 2010, 20 animals died at the zoo, including a Sumatran tiger and 13 baby komodo dragons. (…) Most of the animals died from pneumonia, dehydration caused by diarrhea and malnutrition, while other problems included a dirty and poor environment and lack of nutritious food.” (http://m.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/04/yet-another-surabaya-zoo-animal-dies.html )

 

Evidence 8: NGOs and WORLD ASSOCIATIONS REQUESTING THAT URGENT MEASURES ARE TAKEN

Trevor B., from Australia said: “We call on the honourable President, Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to mandate the following 5 actions immediately: 1) Close Surabaya zoo permanently and dismiss the management.  Hire reputable, qualified staff to engage in the immediate care of the animals.  2) Increase funding and security to ensure all animals receive the proper diet, and medical attention necessary.3) For any animal where rehabilitation is feasible to the point where the animal could survive in the wild, rehabilitation must take place under the direction of qualified experts, so that they can be released back into the wild.4) Any animals with incurable, degenerative conditions, and that are in significant pain must be humanely euthanized based on the recommendation of veterinary experts.5) Commission an enquiry with the view to identify the causes of the conditions and the zoo, and the prosecution of those responsible for the state of the animals. Please act – the world is watching.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo )

Alice Budisatrijo, from BBC news, said: “The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Waza), a group that includes 300 leading zoos and aquariums as its members, deems the animal welfare conditions in Surabaya so appalling that its leader has written two letters to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the past two months. In one of the letters, Waza Executive Director Gerald Dick said the situation in Surabaya was becoming more than a single zoo issue.”(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

 

Evidence 9: NEGLIGENCE OF THE ZOO KEEPERS

Trevor B., from Sydney, Australia, said: “East Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) conducted an investigation, which found that negligent keepers were to blame for most of the animal deaths. It is alleged that zookeepers are stealing meat which they sell to the black market. Also that animals are being stolen by the zookeepers and also sold” (…) “A giraffe that died that was found to have an 18kg ball of plastic in its stomach, It had been living off food thrown to it by visitors, such as candy bars, which often still had the wrapper on it.” (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo)

[In this image (Image 17 of the photographic evidence) it can be seen the last specimen of giraffe that remained at the zoo, hours before dying after have eaten 18 kg of plastic bags and wrappers.] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166431 )

Alice Budisatrijo, from BBC News, said: “Last month, a young lion named Michael was found hanged in his cage at Surabaya zoo. The 18-month-old got his neck tangled in a cable used by keepers to open and close his cage. An official claimed the lion got himself caught as he jumped around. However, by the time the police arrived, the lion’s carcass had been removed from the cage, complicating any investigation into whether negligence contributed to his death. (…) A few days before Michael’s death, a wildebeest was found dead in its cage. A few days later, a young mountain goat died of neck injuries. Zoo officials said it was attacked by an adult goat. And in March 2012, 20kg (44 pounds) of plastic were found in the stomach of a dead giraffe. ” (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

Amir Tejo, from The Jakarta Globe, said: “Three juvenile Komodo dragons have gone missing from one of the country’s most notorious zoos, amid revelations that zoo keepers waited five days before reporting the disappearance. The missing reptiles were from a group of 18 komodos that hatched at Surabaya Zoo in March 2010. (…) (Tony Sumampau, head of the zoo’s caretaker administration) said there was little possibility that the komodos had escaped from their cage. (…) Last August, the Forestry Ministry revoked Surabaya Zoo’s license following a rash of animal deaths. In the space of just a few weeks, a Sumatran tiger, African lion, wallaby, Komodo dragon, babirusa cub, Bawean deer, crocodile and several birds died. (…) At the behest of the zoo’s interim management, formed after the license was revoked, Surabaya Police and the East Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) conducted a joint probe that found negligent keepers were to blame for many of the deaths.”(http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/archive/zoo-suspects-missing-komodo-dragons-either-eaten-or-stolen/430960/ )

Erin Skarda, from TIME, said: “Two weeks ago, the zoo’s last remaining giraffe, 30-year-old Kliwon, died with a 40-lb. (18 kg) wad of plastic sitting in its stomach. For years, the animal had been eating whatever it could find, which was mostly trash thrown in its enclosure by zoo visitors.” (http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/15/the-disturbing-state-of-indonesias-zoo-of-death/ )

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “Two cheetahs, gifts of the South African president, were killed because they were housed with tigers.”( http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

The Jakarta Post said: “(…) another animal was found dead, allegedly due to a lack of monitoring. (…) A six-month mountain goat was found dead, having wandered into a cage consisting of a group of deer through a hole in the fence separating the two cages. (…) the management would repair the fence in order to avoid a repeat of the incident, and that according to the latest estimate, there were 50 cages in the zoo in need of repair.” ( http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/01/15/another-animal-dies-surabaya-zoo.html )

Agus Supangkat (zoo spokesman) said: “It seems the goat was attacked simultaneously by the group of deer.” ( http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/01/15/another-animal-dies-surabaya-zoo.html )

 

Evidence 10: LACK OF CONTROL IN BREEDING SPECIES

Trevor B., from Australia, said: “The zoo is unable to separate breeding animals, so breeding is out of control. For example, nearly 200 pelicans inhabit a filthy enclosure the size of a basketball court. They do not have the room to move their wings.” (Una foto de esto también puede verse en http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531) (https://www.change.org/p/president-jokowi-close-surabaya-zoo)

Alice Budisatrijo, from BBC News, said: “In a row of enclosures surrounded by a moat, dozens of long-tailed macaques roamed around in packs. At least 10 of them had babies attached to their stomachs like marsupials. (…) Dr Liang acknowledged that there was a surplus of macaques.” (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

News.com.au said: “Whereas most zoos limit the number of animals born in captivity – taking into consideration how many can reasonably be cared for or exchanged with other zoos – the notion of family planning has not yet taken off here. Contraceptives are expensive and there are not adequate facilities to separate males and females. As result, species at the Surabaya zoo are bred to excess.”( http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/starved-and-abused-inside-indonesias-nightmare-zoo/story-e6frfq80-1226298813282 )

Veterinarian Liang Kaspe, the zoo’s head of operations, says regarding pelicans and herons cages: There is no overpopulation here. They need to live in big groups in order to breed.”(En el link puede observarse una foto (Imagen 23 de la evidencia fotográfica) de esto.)(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

 

Evidence 11: SAD ANIMALS

[Photos (Images 5 and 6 of the photographic evidence) of monkeys with sad face behind a latticework] (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_6.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_7.htm )

[Photos (Images 12 and 13 of the photographic evidence) of saddened monkeys or without the company of others of the same species]( http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_12.htm ); (http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_13.htm )

[Photo (Image 14 of the photographic evidence) a mammal that looks like a lemur, which manifests sadness on its face.](http://spanish.china.org.cn/international/txt/2013-12/27/content_31023258_15.htm )

[Photo (Image 20 of the photographic evidence) of a sick bear in quarantine.] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9140708/Surabaya-Zoo-animals-kept-in-scandalous-conditions-at-Indonesias-largest-zoo.html?frame=2166434 )

[Photo (Image 27 of the photographic evidence) of an American bear with a skin disease, and with a sad face due to confinement and bad care.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya_Zoo#/media/File:Surabaya_bear.jpg )

 

Evidence 12: ZOO AUTHORITIES NOT RECOGNIZING PROBLEMS IN THE FACILITY

Alice Budisatrijo, from BBC news, said: “Director Ratna Achjuningrum rejected the notion that the Surabaya zoo had become a national shame. (…) The endangered primates she referred (proboscis monkeys) to came from the mangrove, riverine and swamp forests in the island of Kalimantan, also known as Borneo. I pointed out that the island where the proboscis monkeys lived in the zoo had several dead trees.” (En la Imagen 24 de la evidencia fotográfica aparecen estos primates arriba de los árboles estériles.) (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

Ratna Achjuningrum, director at the Zoo, said: “We have many successes, for example we’ve been successful in breeding Komodos, and in providing a place for proboscis monkeys that resembles their natural habitat.”(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25908531 )

 

Evidence 13: USING THE FACILITIES FOR SOCIAL PURPOSES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANIMALS OR THE ZOO

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “One staff member was using the zoo to breed ducks; the camel-keeper’s second wife was living in the camel shed so his first wife wouldn’t find out about her, and a sooth-sayer was selling advice from the hippo enclosure” (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

Evidence 14: POISONING AND MURDER OF ANIMALS

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “The meat (for the tigers) was supplied by a staff-run business. They bought it cheap (laced at the market with the illegal preservative formalin) then sold it at a big mark-up. Sumampau (head of the Indonesian Parks Association and a consultant to the zoo) suspects formalin is responsible for Melani’s digestive distress. Another staff-owned company cut weeds from the side of the polluted Surabaya river to sell for herbivore food. (…) Melani the Sumatran tiger heaves herself painfully to her feet, walks to the fence and is hand-fed a few pieces of chicken cut into small chunks. She’s skin and bone, but she eats less than a child might before returning to chew, like a sick domestic cat, on the grass. There are less than 400 of Melani’s kind still roaming the dwindling forests of Sumatra, and soon this zoo-bound specimen will also be dead, after spending most of her life in squalor in Surabaya Zoo. She suffers from an unidentified wasting disease which means her food, even when it’s minced, passes through her, almost entirely undigested.”( http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

[Photo (Image 25 of the photographic evidence) where it is shown Melani, a tigress of Sumatra which is convalescent because of severe digestive problems, which, according Sumampau, head of the Indonesian Association of Parks and now adviser at the Zoo, are due to the ingestion of meat preserved with a chemical called formalin, better known as formaldehyde or formol which is highly toxic and carcinogenic according to WHO.]( http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

Trisnadi Marjan: “Two men who each claimed to be the zoo’s chief were fired several years ago, but their followers among the staff have continued the feud. (…) Police believe the poisoning death of a Javan warthog in January, found with traces of cyanide in its stomach, was linked to that conflict.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/surabaya-zoo-indonesia-giraffe_n_1340941.html?  )

Charlotte Meredith, from Huffington Post, said: “Horrifying images (Image 30 and 31 from photographic evidence) have emerged from an infamous zoo in Indonesia dubbed the ‘Zoo of Death,’ showing a dead lion hanging in its cage. (…) Michael the lion’s emaciated body was found tangled in steel cables used to protect keepers at the Surabaya City Zoo. (…) Zoo spokesman Agus Supangkat said the cause of death was being investigated, but reports have emerged that the lion’s body was removed before police were able to examine it and cannot now be found. ” (In this news article it can be seen a video with the images of the lion hanging in its cage) ( http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/09/lion-dead-hanging-pictures_n_4568912.html )

 

Evidence 15: INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM

Michael Bachelard, from Sydney Morning Herald, said: “In 2010, as the bad news mounted, the city government sacked the management, installed temporary leaders and brought Sumampau in as an unpaid consultant. The entrance fee has more than tripled, the Komodos released from their tiny cage, the orang-utans and monkeys given redesigned shelters and the tigers new holding yards where they can move. Rather than spending up to 10 days in tiny holding cells for every three days out on display, the tigers have more space, sunlight and exercise.” (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoo-takes-terrible-toll-on-animals-20130526-2n5ct.html )

Evidence 16: ZOO’S EMPLOYEES STEALING ANIMALS AND MEAT MEANT FOR TIGERS

Los Angeles Times said: “Many employees have been caught stealing meat intended for the animals and sometimes, in the case of rare species, stealing the animals themselves, (Sumampouw) said.”( http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/08/zoo-official-issues-dire-warning-about-the-treatment-of-animals-at-indonesias-surabaya-zoo.html )

News.com.au said: “He (Sumampouw) said he believes some animals, including three young Komodos that disappeared last year, were stolen by caretakers and sold into the exotic pet trade. (…) Zookeepers also have been accused of taking meat meant for the tigers and selling it in the local market.”(http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/starved-and-abused-inside-indonesias-nightmare-zoo/story-e6frfq80-1226298813282 )

 

 

SEGUNDA VALORACION.- De las Pruebas aportadas no cabe la menor duda sobre la autenticidad de las mismas, considerando su procedencia, pues cada testimonio recopilado proviene de un enlace de internet donde se encuentra la información correspondiente que respalda y robustece la evidencia a través de un artículo e imágenes (fotografías). Sobre todos los artículos que se ofrecen como probanza y que además se etiqueta en los mismos los Delitos y las acciones cometidas (caso que no ocupa ni compete conocer ni decidir jurisdiccionalmente en este asunto por nuestra Parte), no hay objeción, descalificación o invalidación del contenido digital por la Parte que represento, en virtud de que son medios digitales que proceden de fuente digna y que además se declararon y publicaron en su momento de manera formal y abierta, de las cuales no cabe duda sobre su autenticidad o veracidad.-

 

TERCERA VALORACION.- Por lo expuesto, publicado, declarado y reproducido en los medios de comunicación y que ahora son presentados como Prueba digital para este caso por la Secretaria Ejecutiva del CIEB y TBDH Maestra Yan Maitri-Shi, se determinan dichas probanzas por la Parte que represento en cuanto Fiscal del CIEB y TBDH como LEGITIMAS y VALIDAS, mismas que respaldan y confirman la Acusación que presenta la International Association of Maitriyana (IAM) por Delitos y Violaciones a los Derechos de los Animales.-

En tal situación, se da inicio a la Cuarta Etapa del Procedimiento denominada de “CONTESTACION”, en la cual se establece el término de 5 cinco días a la Parte Acusada y Requerida ZOOLOGICO SURABAYA por los Delitos de MALTRATO, TORTURA Y DESCUIDO ANIMAL y Otros que resulten a fin de que emita la Contestación que desee o le corresponda frente a la Acusación y Requerimiento con respecto a las Pruebas aportadas, aceptadas y valoradas en el presente escrito.-

 

 

SekkhaDhamma

Fiscal del CIEB y TBDH

 

México mes de Agosto del año 2015 dos mil quince.-