ANTILLEAN CITIZEN VICTIM OF RACIAL ABUSE
WILLEMSTAD/PAPENDRECHT -- It just now came to light that a 49-year old Antillean person was beaten and kicked by a group of 6 neo-Nazi on the Westeind in Papendrecht on May 20th.
The neo-Nazis have waited for him outside a café and beaten him up so bad that he had to be admitted in the Hospital. He had broken ribs and more. The neo-Nazis are of the Action-front South-Holland South and the extreme-right German Michael K.
Six suspects were arrested, of which three are still in custody. The three that were released will remain suspects in this case. The suspects that are in custody are a 29-year old man with unknown residency, a 27-year old man from Breda, and a 24-year old man from Papendrecht. A 22-year old man from Alblasserdam, a 22-year old woman from Beuningen, and a 17-year old from Papendrecht were released pending the legal case. The court in Dordrecht has not planned a date yet for the hearing.
Michael K. is a well-known neo-Nazi in Germany, who was arrested in the Netherlands before. He was behind bars in Germany for wearing Nazi symbols. The very bad assault has caused a lot of horror amongst the Antillean and Aruban community in the Netherlands, reported the Consultative-body Caribbean Dutch-citizens (OCaN--Overlegorgaan Caraïbische Nederlanders).
The incident reminds the OCaN of the murder of the Antillean boy Kerwin Diunmeijer in Amsterdam in 1983. OCaN cannot duck out of the impression that the systematic and lengthy witch hunt of some house-member, ministers, and mayors from Antillean municipalities against the entire group of Antillean people last year, could have started this violence, said the OCaN.
They used as examples the Antillean referral-index and the Antillean databank with the processing of race-particulars. Why this deafening quietness of the concerned house-members, ministers, mayors and LBR around this awful assault now? Is this assault not as bad as the assault on Theo van Gogh that caused his death?
According to OCaN, also the media deserve some of the blame. It has appeared several times that in case of violent incidents where an Antillean person is just a suspect, the stigma of it is an Antillean, the media continuously made a big deal of it.
The media never rectified when it turned out that the Antillean suspect in question was not guilty, not even when the OCaN asked for that. OCaN wants politics and the media to be objective of the racial assault and presses for no populistic statements or racial bills towards Dutch citizens from the Antilles and Aruba.
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Aruba is mentioned as a safety issure as our local union team leader received a group travel discount package from the Aruba Tourists Agency for the Fall concert beach festiful. Many of the workers don't want to go to Aruba because of the bad publicity about the Aruba. They worried about the safety and the poor services, and also wondered about the Natalee court case, and why our government don't do anything about it. Most of us already decided not to vote for Bush, and we also voted not to go to Aruba for our Fall Qaulity Performer Awards dinner party. Aruba has lost over 80% of the corporations sponsor events. It is a very tragic punishment for the Aruban people. They were pushed to economic extinction very soon, unless the Aruban government do something to guarantee the safety of the tourists.
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