From the autor of this memorandum, D. Sahalessy

PREFACE

An important juridical, historical event, which had been forgotten by the international world, is the Proclamation of the Republic of the South Moluccas on the 25th of April 1950 in Ambon City, an act of applying the Right of S9lfdetermination, which has been used and is still being violated by the neo colonial policy of the Dutch and Indonesian governments.

The international world might therefore understand that the actions, sometimes executed by our youth, with the Netherlands as well as outside, are part of our struggle to draw the attention of the international world on the "fate" of our people, which already for such a long time is dominated by abovementioned "neo colonial" powers.

The establishment of the power of a neo colonial Indonesia in Southeast Asia and west Melanesia, former Dutch colonies, is an ethnocentrically act, in which the Hindus cultural history of the Modjopahit empire is being used to destroy the cultural identity of all the peoples outside Java. This act, carried out openly or secretly, has caused a lot of bloodshed and the toss of mach hamen life, extending any limit of justice and humanity. All bloody events, which started in 1950 in the Moluccas, and continued in Sumatra, Celebes, Malaysia, Papua and Timor, are the evidence of the cruelty of the neo colonist regime.

As a human being, as a member of a people that has almost perished in the vortex of ethno centralism I raise my voice to all nations, especially the Dutch nation, to make them realize:

• the bloody events in the formal Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and West Melanesia, and
• the presence of tens of thousands Moluccans in foreign countries, especially in the Netherlands, which is not an internal Dutch social problem, but an international political problem, for which the Kingdom of the Netherlands. carries responsibility.

May God, the Almighty, bless the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in order that she may realize:

1. that a Kingdom, which bases her existence on Justice and Humanity, cannot go on violating the Right of Self-determination of another people, and
2. that support to the Republic of Indonesia (R. l.), which suppresses the nations of Southeast Asia and West Melanesia, is nothing but an act that extends the limits of Justice and Humanity.