Kazakhstan - Appeal for Help

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:36 AM

Sundara nanda-gopala dasa

Kazakhstan - Appeal for Help

 

 

 

Dear Devotees,

 

We have already informed you of the difficult situation with the farm

community of the Society for KC in Kazakhstan. The government tries to evict

the devotees from the land lawfully purchased in 1999 and their houses and

ashramas wich accomodate more than 60 devotees. This persecution started a

few years ago, but now the situation reached its critical point.

 

Yesterday, on April 24, at 10 p.m. the legal executive (court officer)

delivered a notification to the members of the community that today, on

April 25, at 11 a.m. their ashramas and cottages shall be demolished

according to the decision of the court.

 

We ask you to help us in this difficult situation and stop the execution of

the unlawful decision of the court about the demolition of the ashramas and

the eviction of the devotees from their homes. All the devotees are

law-obedient citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and now the government

wants to make them homeless outcasts.

 

You can help us by making telephone calls to the Administration of the

President of RK, the Presidential Committee on Religious Affairs and the

local administrative bodies, and requesting them to stop the execution of

the unlawful decision.

 

Telephones:

 

Presidential Office: +7 (3172) 152634, 152920, 152107 +7 (3172) 324558

Presidential PR department: +7 (3172) 744051

 

Administration of the President: +7 (3172) 151203, fax +7 (3172) 324480

 

Prosecutor's office of RK +7 (3172) 712868, 214025, 712500

 

Senate +7 (3172) 153195, 153239, 327710

 

Senate PR department: +7 (3172) 153295, 153505 fax +7 (3172) 334639

 

Committee on Religious Affairs Mr. Yeraly Lukpanovich Tugzhanov +7 (3172)

152497, 152217, 152690 fax +7 (3172) 328356

 

Prime Minister Mr. Danial Akhmetov +7 (3172) 152035, 152027

 

Almaty Regional Land Department Mr. Nauryzbai Asanbayevich Taubayev +7

(3272) 270125

 

Almaty Regional Hakim Mr. Serik Abikenovich Umbetov +7 (3282) 271753

 

Karasai District Hakim Bolat-bi Satynbayevich Kutpanov +7 (32771) 21142,

21709

 

Karasai District Court: +7 (32771) 20899

 

Court executive Ms. R. Baimukhanbetova +7 (32771) 22030

 

You can present them the following arguments:

 

A. Law-obedient citizens are deprived of their homes and thrown to the

street. All of them have lawfully acquired the right of ownership for their

plots of land, they have paid all the taxes and membership charges.

 

B. The Hakim (Governor) of the district accuses the owners that they never

had their property privatized. However the members of the community

repeatedly applied to the Hakim for his permission to make the acts of

ownership for their cottages and plots but he repeatedly refused. Without

his sanction for privatization one cannot make needed documentation for the

cottages.

 

C. The devotees' houses are located on the territory of a Consumers

Cooperative. There are 120 members of this Cooperative. However the claims

are brought only against the members of the religious society. In each and

every claim the connection of the defendants to the Religious Organization

Society for Krishna Consciousness has been illustrated. This is a direct and

flagrant violation of human rights and freedoms which are guaranteed by the

Constitution of Kazakhstan.

 

4) Confiscation of property without compensation is possible only in a

criminal case. Ours is a civil case. It is not a criminal case.

 

5) According to the law, the citizens whose property is confiscated are

given at least 5 days to prepare for the execution of the court decision. In

our case we have another transgression of the law as we were given less than

one day.

 

Please act quickly and contact as many devotees as possible who may not be

able to received this message in time.

 

If you have contacts with the powerful political leaders, businessmen, big

media agencies (CNN, BBC, Reuter), please deliver to them this information

and give them our telephones:

 

Maxim Varfolomeev +7 300 7407943, Rati Manjari devi dasi (Ekaterina

Levitskaya) +7 300 7164967.

 

Your servants from Sri Vrindavan Dham, Kazakhstan

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