August 8, 2013 Open e-Letter To Ambassador George Weah Peace Ambassador of Liberia Monrovia, Liberia Re: Request for Audience with you to Receive a Statement from me during my One-Man Peaceful, Nonviolent Protest March Against Police Brutality & the Liberian Government’s CAMPAIGN OF SILENCE in my Case on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Dear Honorable Ambassador, I would like to personally extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for its unflinching support for democracy, peace, Law & Order and Human Rights in Liberia. It is truly an honor to have ECOWAS’ presence in our country. The occasion of this letter is to officially inform you that I have done everything in my human power under the Rule of Law to seek justice for police brutality committed against me on June 29, 2012 in Pleebo City, Maryland County. But the Liberian government has been stonewalling. There’s nothing else I can do but to bring the entire matter to the world. As such, on August 14, 2013 I intend to march to the US, EU, UNMIL & ECOWAS offices ending at the Capitol Building to deliver a Statement in which I will call on each of you, Christendom & Islam to help me bring pressure to bear on the Liberian government in my quest for justice against police brutality. Other legal, democratic and constitutional actions will be taken by me during this exercise. Those actions will be symbolic but tangible! Therefore, I wish to meet with you to deliver my Statement on August 14, 2013. The Peace Council gracious formation and your leadership, I’m sure, reaffirm the true strength of Liberian peace process and democracy. To have such a strong, productive leader like you is a great source of reassurance. Your Excellency, I traveled to Liberia in 2007 as an answer to the call of President Sirleaf for Liberians in the Diaspora to return home and assist in the reconstruction process after a 14-year generalized anarchy of violence. Since my presence I have refused to work in the Government but rather in civil society. I have established two not-for-profit nongovernmental organizations focused on community empowerment, peacebuilding, social justice advocacy &c. This effort has cost over one hundred thousand United States dollars of my personal fund. I have worked in two counties: Montserrado and Maryland and briefly in Bong. After six years working as a volunteer at my own financial expense at which time I compromised my personal security throughout villages and shanty towns of Liberia, the Liberian government, instead of encouraging me, decided to abuse me and threaten my life through its security forces. On June 29, 2012, the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberia National Police (LNP) brutalized and psychologically tortured me in Pleebo City, Maryland with impunity. Since then, the Liberian government has been stonewalling and launching a campaign of silence. My six (6) years of service to Liberia are of great scores and successes. I have brought together two chiefdoms in Maryland that have been at loggerhead for over several decades. In my advocacy approach, I have won tens and tens of thousands of dollars for shipwreck victims and helped in setting free several young men and a woman who were falsely accused of ritualistic killing in Maryland by the Liberian government. I have helped aggrieved workers of the Tubman Technical College received “Honorarium” from The William V. S. Tubman University (TU). Some of these men and women immediately died of old age after receiving their “Honorariums.” Sad! Isn’t it? Your Excellency, there are so many feathers in my proverbial hat that I got from my volunteer and sacrificial work in this country. The secret behind my work is attributed to what President John F. Kennedy observed many decades ago, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” All I asked of my country from the very beginning is security protection. But no! The Liberian government rewarded me with Police brutality and campaign of silence. I categorically, without mixing words, condemn the Government’s campaign of silence and reject injustice and police brutality. Hon. Ambassador, thank you once more for your support for democracy, Law & Order, peace, reconciliation and Human Rights in Liberia. I look forward to hearing from you in order for me to deliver my Statement to you on August 14, 2013. To close, I would again like to express my gratitude and to congratulate you on the remarkable progress you’ve made to strengthen our country on the path of democracy and human understanding! Please know that I hope for nothing but your continued success. Sincerely yours, Thomas G. Bedell SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE/POLICE BRUTALITY VICTIM Maryland County, Liberia Cell: +231.886.920.151 Email: osygefo@hotmail
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:44:16 +0000
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