Save our organisation - Backward Society Education (BASE)

This petition was published by Som Aryal on Apr 07, 2002

Dear Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba,

I am writing to you to express my deep concern about last week's attacks on three offices of the organization Backward Society Education (BASE) by Maoist rebels in the Kailali district. Reportedly, motorcycles, office furniture, files, and -- in one case an entire area office - were torched. BASE is an internationally respected organization with more than 30,000 members, serving a marginalized community such as the freed bonded laborers. It plays a critical role in providing humanitarian assistance, social services, and education to the former bonded laborers.

I also urge you to retract your government's threat of de-registering BASE, and I ask you to support BASE's ongoing efforts to rehabilitate the freed bonded laborers and other marginalized people as the best road to peace.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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