BONAIRE:--- With regards to The Dutch government uses “internetconsultatie” https://www.internetconsultatie.nl/wolbesfinbes/b1 to collect ideas from residents and organizations, including NGOs, about legislative proposals. That these so-called consultations would be your chance to have your say on new laws before they become final.
The call for organizations to react or give input to the Law change WolBES and FinBES process, please find Bonaire Human Rights Organization's reaction and objection hereunder to the intention to legitimize the illegal BES laws:
“Unjust acts do not create law.”
The BES laws with respect to Bonaire in particular were created on an unjust unlawful base, as the democratic power and responsibility of the Bonaire people were reversed and subordinated back under The Hague overseas colonial rule on October 10, 2010. This act, considered international, annexation and continuation of colonization by the Netherlands was declared by the international community and United Nations as a “crime against humanity” and remains a disputable international case, as it was imposed on the people of Bonaire, without their consent and not respecting and denying their fundamental inalienable right to self-determination. The right of self-determination solely belongs to the people and not to the government of Bonaire or the government of Holland. The imposed BES laws violate the main fundamental human and self-determination rights of the people and cannot be considered legal, as they were imposed by the Dutch colonial administrative power over the people. In the question of democracy and self-determination only one question that clears up what is democratic or what is colonial, is “Who decides?”
In a democracy, the people concerned decide, in a colonial system the overseas administrative colonial power decides.
We cannot cooperate to continue the legitimization of unjust systems and laws created and imposed against the wishes and democratic decisions of the people denying their legitimate inalienable human and self-determination rights. This call or indecent proposal of the Holland government to involve the civil society in this illegal process of legitimizing their unlawful acts can be considered to “invite the civil society to be an accomplice with the Holland government's continued violations of the main pillars of modern civilization based on democracy and human rights.”
In fact, inviting the civil society to cooperate with the Holland government to breach and violation of several of Bonaire people’s international legal instruments and the United Nations Charter, United Nations Decolonization Declaration:
- Violations of articles 1, 55, 73, and 103 of the Charter of the United Nations and resolutions 742, 747, 945, 1514, and 1541 et al. affirm the inalienable rights of the people of Bonaire to self-determination.
- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- International Covenant on All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
