Ongelijkheid

Politieke vergismoord

Vast is komen te staan dat de aanslag niet bedoeld was voor de band, maar voor de Bevrijdingsraad voor Suriname, die in hetzelfde pand in Rijswijk gevestigd was. De Bevrijdingsraad behoorde tot de tegenstanders van Bouterse. Vermoed wordt dat het regime Bouterse – destijds staatshoofd van Suriname – achter de aanslag zat.

Een politieke vergismoord dus. De politie had daarvoor sterke aanwijzingen, maar toch kwam het onderzoek niet verder en er zijn veel geruchten dat het onderzoek tegengewerkt werd. Waarom en door wie?

 

Podcast

Onder de naam “Het geheim van Rijswijk” heeft NRC in 2021 een podcast uitgebracht over deze zaak. Hieruit blijkt duidelijk dat er veel geheim is gehouden rond de opsporing en dat een van de vermoedelijke daders nog vrij rondloopt en zelfs nooit verhoord is door de politie. De zaak is al lang verjaard, maar gerechtigheid heeft nooit plaatsgevonden.

Rechtsorde

Voor de overlevenden en de nabestaanden is het onverteerbaar dat vanuit een buitenlandse mogendheid (regeringskringen in Suriname) mensen in Nederland worden vermoord zonder dat dit repercussies heeft. De daders zijn nooit opgespoord en over de achtergrond van de moorden is altijd gezwegen.

 

“Er was sprake van een internationaal ernstig misdrijf en de Nederlandse staat is daarbij tekortgeschoten in de opsporing en de bescherming van haar burgers.”

– Henry Does in de podcast aflevering 10.

 

De Nederlandse staat is tekortgeschoten in het beschermen van haar burgers. Dit gaat in tegen de rechtsorde zoals we die in Nederland kennen.

 

Advocaat Liesbeth Zegveld

Met hulp van Liesbeth Zegveld – bekend mensenrechtenadvocaat – willen wij, overlevenden en en nabestaanden van de Rijswijkse moorden alsnog gerechtigheid en waarheidsvinding.
Door middel van politieke druk om de cold case zaak over de Rijswijkse moorden te heropenen en door middel van een mogelijke rechtszaak tegen de Staat.
Voor het zover is zullen we eerst moeten procederen om de vele geheime stukken rondom deze zaak te mogen inzien.

 

Dat is duur. Daarom zamelen wij via crowdfunding geld in voor advocaat- en proceskosten voor de eerste fase: Opheldering van het Geheim van Rijswijk.

Ons streefbedrag is € 26.600,00.

Voor meer informatie: www.geheimvanrijswijk.nl 

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Secret of Rijswijk (Geheim van Rijswijk)

In the night of March 7th, 1985, a violent attack surprised an amateur band in the Dutch Town Rijswijk. Three men were executed and two were badly wounded. The attack, which became knows as the murders of Rijswijk (Rijswijkse moorden), was never solved.

The band was rehearsing in an office building that also held the Liberation Council of Suriname. The Liberation Council of Suriname was founded after the December murders of 1982 in Suriname and was a strong opponent of the Regime of Desi Bouterse. It has been determined that the attack was not meant for the band, but was aimed at the members of the Liberation Council of Suriname. There are strong suggestions that this regime is somehow responsible for the attack. The police had leads in this direction at the time. Over 35 years later there is still no answers and only more questions.

 

Podcast

The Dutch newspaper, the NRC, made a 10-part podcast series named “Het Geheim van Rijswijk” (the secret of Rijswijk). In this podcast the journalist Anna Korterink dives deeply into the case. Her research leads her to more questions than answers. Why was the investigation stopped? Why are there so many secrets? Why were the police held back from fully researching the case? Anna Korterink makes it is clear that there was political interference in the police investigation. She has spoken to witnesses and people who were involved, dove into archives and uncovered secret police files. Yet the case remained clouded in darkness, partially because many archives are still not accessible and even “State Secret”.

 

Is not the foremost duty and primary function of government to keep its citizens safe and to provide justice for all

There are many indications that the state did not do everything that was in its power to solve the Rijswijk murders. The murderers and those who ordered the assassinations were never prosecuted. Today the Dutch government refuses to reveal how and why this was decided, and anything it knows about this case. The absence of justice, and the further obfuscation of the truth is exacting a terrible price in suffering for the two survivors of this attack who still continue -after 37 years- to feel unsafe as potential targets for the purpose of silencing them as witnesses, while the families of the victims continue to be traumatized by their loss and feelings of guilt that they had not been able to protect their loved ones or to see justice served. The lack of accountability of the Government should concern us all. How can the Government justify forsaking its foremost duty to protect its citizens and to pursue the cause of justice? The family and survivors have a right to know. Everyone has a right to know how our interests are served and protected by our government, and for what causes they may be sacrificed.

  

Crowdfunding

Survivors, families and sympathisers. have decided to start a foundation (Sichting Gerechtigheid en Waarheidsvinding). The goal of the foundation is to finally get answers in this case. Liesbeth Zegveld, a well-known Dutch human rights lawyer, helps us and demands clarification of the secret of Rijswijk This case will take a long time and will be expensive. We have started a fundraising campaign to support the survivors and families in their fight for justice. The aim is to raise €26.600.