May
1, 2014
Thomas
G. Bedell
SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE
Concerned
Citizens Action Committee (CCAC)
Reevy
Street, Harper City, Maryland County
CELL:
+231.886.920.151/777.088.427
John
Y. Barkemeni
DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
Cavalla
Rubber Corporation (CRC)
Pleebo/Sodokeh
District, Maryland County
Dear
Sir:
Please
be informed we’ve been retained by The CRC Aggrieve Redundant Workers of
Maryland County to advocate on their behalf in seeking payment of 12.6 million
dollars we understand CRC owes them.
Our
clients informed us of too many unfulfilled promises made to them over the
years by you. Each time these unfulfilled promises were made, protest actions
were halted. In fact, according to them, due to these unfulfilled promises,
they were forced to launch a nonviolent protest demonstration in Pleebo in
which one of their colleagues was shot at point-blank range by The Emergency Response
Unit (ERU) of The Liberia National Police (LNP). During that period under
consideration, we are told by that other members of our clients were wounded through
physical attacks as most of them were also psychologically tortured and
molested. Our clients maintain that this unjust action by CRC is responsible
for the many deaths of their colleagues and years of economic hardship,
inhumane treatment, stress and abuse of their families.
As
social justice advocates, our job is to seek justice for all.
In
the event one causes willful harm to a people, peaceful and nonviolent protest
demonstration is the last resort as we did in the case of shipwreck victims in
Maryland. This case will not be an exception!
We
are in closed contact with human rights and social justice organizations
worldwide. And that is because this matter has a human rights abuse implication.
Our
hardworking, poor and destitute people of Pleebo/Sodokeh District and Maryland,
as a whole, have worked bristle hard to generate huge profits for CRC over long
and hard years. So they deserve their respect and human dignity! Currently, they
tell us that they are weary and impatient with your Company’s neglect and slow
pace in allowing them to have their rightful dues.
Therefore,
it is our sole intend to lay this case before H.E. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
President of the Republic of Liberia and the global human rights community.
But
prior to doing so, we request a conference with you in few days to find an
amicable solution and a way forward before the matter gets to a crisis
proportion.
Our
next Press Conference follows this letter.
In
view of the foregoing, we will remain engaged with your office for the purpose
of seeing that appropriate action is taken in this matter in a timely fashion.
We
look forward to hearing from you very soon as time is not on our side. Most of our
clients, you will agree, are getting much older each day while some have and
continue to lose their precious lives under economic hardship imposed on them
by you. An amicable resolution is a “win-win” situation. But if needs be, we will
pursue this matter to the letter, spirit and content of justice and the laws of
the Republic of Liberia alongside The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This will include, but not limited to peaceful & nonviolent protest
demonstration throughout the length and breadth of Maryland until the voice of
the people which is the voice of God is heard throughout the villages, ghettoes,
shanty towns and squalors of the land!
Until
then, we respectfully remain. I am,
Very
truly yours,
Thomas
G. Bedell
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