Subject: Seal Alert-SA's Meeting With Prime Minister of Namibia
Date: July 24, 2007 3:51:23 AM
For "Proposed questions for interview with Mr Francois Hugo" scroll down, please.
Seal Alert-SA, Press Release, July 24, 2007.
Seal
Alert-SA's Meeting With Prime Minister of
Namibia
As many of you know
the Right Honourable Prime Minister Nahas Angula advised
Seal Alert-SA on July 18, that a meeting was set down for
July 23 in Namibia at the Prime Minister's Office at 14.30.
The subject. Seal
Alert-SA's global campaign to end the Seal Hunt in Namibia.
This of course left
Seal Alert-SA little time to prepare. Hurriedly Seal
Alert-SA prepared a Power Point clearly illustrating
the mismanagement of the Cape fur seals over the past 30
years, as our motivation for the Prime Minister to call an
immediate halt to the 2007 baby seal cull of 80 000 seals.
It is hoped that this Power Point will be available on-line
on the following websites
www.sealalertsa.net and
www.seashepherd.org,
within the next few days.
Unsure who could
attend and participate. Seal Alert-SA asked the Prime
Minister if in the meeting with Francois Hugo, could be
attended with his partner of 8 years, Dr Herbert Henrich
Advisor to Seashepherd International and National Council
of SPCA's Global Campaigns Manager Celeste Houseman.
Seal Alert-SA also
invited officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal
Management in South Africa to the meet, and received the
following reply, "Time constraints and approval procedures
required by government for international travel mean that
DEAT officials will not be able to attend the meeting with
the Namibian Prime Minister on Monday 20 July. We do
however, wish you a successful meeting."
Protocol maintained
that this historic meeting be kept small with well informed
members who could travel to Namibia at short notice.
Seal Alert-SA,
although requested an official invite, was instead told by
PA assistant to the Prime Minister, that as he himself had
set the meeting, there was no need to send a confirmation
letter.
Many within the Seal
Alert-SA supporter/partner fold believed this invite to be
a hoax, some even considered it a ploy to lure Francois
Hugo of Seal Alert-SA to Namibia in order to arrest him.
Seal Alert-SA spokesperson Nikki Botha confirmed on July
18, that this was no hoax.
On Friday, Seal
Alert-SA's was informed that the interview has
appeared today's print edition of the
“National-Zeitung” (www.dsz-verlag.de). It has
also been announced in a caption below the photograph of
a baby fur seal on the front page. This is somewhat
historic, as German tourists account for the
largest segment of the international tourists
visiting Namibia. "Our newspaper
“National-Zeitung” was founded in 1951. It appears on a
weekly basis with a circulation of 50,000 copies,
with readers throughout German-speaking Europe
(Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Easter
France, Eastern Belgium, and Northern Italy) and
beyond. We write about current affairs affecting
German-speaking countries and regions in Europe. We have
also reported about the need for animal protection
in the past, but this interview will be the first
one with a conservationist / animal rights activist."
(please see the full English version attached). The full
print version of the interview (including two
photographs with captions, no omissions) has been on the
internet as this week's online version:
www.dsz-verlag.de/Artikel_07/NZ30_4.html.
On Sunday, the National Newspaper
Rapport reported how their undercover investigation had
revealed that for a few dollars, tourists staying at the
nearby Cape Cross Seal Lodge, could join the baby seal cull
by hiring a rifle from the lodge to go and shoot baby
seals,
www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2151296,00.html and
www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2151297,00.html.
Two days of no sleep, saw Francois
Hugo of Seal Alert-SA, Dr Herbert Henrich and Celeste
Houseman arrive in Namibia for this historic meeting.
At Hosea Kutako International
Airport in Namibia, the Seal Alert-SA team was meet by Bart
Smithers, the wildlife film-maker and his team. Sadly
Bart's appeal for funding to cover filming travel expenses
to photograph the baby seal cull, had been ignored by seal
supporters, and as such Bart's was funding this out of his
own pocket. Bart showed Seal Alert-SA footage of the Cape
Cross Seal colony, where sealers were daily each morning
whacking away at the skulls of fleeing baby seals. What
disturbed Seal Alert-SA the most, was that on this 2007, 80
000 baby seal cull quota, of which some 50 000 was the
quota for the Cape Cross Seal colony.
The footage of Bart's taken on the
day before our arrival clearly showed, that far from 50 000
baby seals to club, that there was not even a thousand
seals present in the entire colony. Has Namibia's Ministry
of Fisheries truly lost it? Awarding a 50 000 quota for
Cape Cross when in fact, there was not even a thousand
seals left?
At 14.00 the Seal Alert-SA team
headed for the Prime Minister of Namibia's Offices.
A full report of this historic
meeting will follow in my next update, as soon as Bart
arrives with the photographs of this historic meeting to
save the endangered Cape fur seal species from further
annual slaughter.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27-21-790 8774
Proposed questions for interview with
Mr Francois Hugo
1. Seal Alert has requested the Namibian government to halt
the 2007 seal cull with immediate effect. Why?
Answer: There are many interrelated reasons why we have
called upon the governments of Namibia and South Africa to
halt the 2007 seal cull along the Namibian coast. Most
recent scientific information available reveals that the
endangered seal population has recovered to 73 per cent of
1993 level. Therefore in 2006, the seal population is 27
per cent lower than in 1993. There had been a mass die-off
involving 95 per cent of the pups and half the adult seal
population in 2000, after a similar die-off in 1994.
Another mass die-off occurred after the 2006 sealing quota
was announced. However, the promised December 2006 pup
population survey has not materialised from Namibian
Ministry (using December 2005 pup survey) for 2007 seal pup
quota. This actually hides the fact of the mass die-off
that occurred in 2006. Most importantly the sealing quota
for 2007 exceeds the number of pups on the sealing
colonies. Unchanged biological conditions indicate a
further die-off this year.
2. The sealing pup quota in 2006 attempted to harvest
15.000 more seals than alive. How do you explain this
contradiction in official statistics?
Answer: Since independence sealers have failed to reach the
annually set TAC sealing pup quota, averaging 60 per cent.
By implication quotas are unreachable and therefore
unsustainable. Sealing pup quotas have increased 300 per
cent in the last decade. This is not sustainable. By
setting a sealing pup quota in 2006 to harvest 15.000 more
seal pups than alive is in fact genocide of all the seal
pups.
3. Why is the harvesting of seal pups in Namibia regarded
as being particularly cruel?
Answer: Sealers are forced to club tens of thousands of
pups. This happens during the initial stampede to freedom
by reaching the safety of the sea. Clubbed pups are then
being dragged semi-consciously to a collection site, where
they are stabbed in the heart. Often this requires repeated
clubbing on the head and stabbing in the chest and heart.
There are time delays of up to an hour between the initial
blow to the head and the final breath. Pups vomit in shock
mothers milk after the initial blow on their heads and
whilst their chests are cut open to reach the heart.
Sealers are also clubbing older seals (on a pup quota <1
year old) in an attempt to fill the quota, which is
inhumane as their skull is far thicker. The 120 sealers are
unskilled, thereby causing immense suffering when clubbing
80 000 wild fleeing baby seal pups. Culling, disturbing and
rounding up 80 per cent of the seal population for 139 days
each year is extremely cruel, stressful and is a threat to
the species. Such a disturbance eventually causes a pup to
become separated from the nursing cow, resulting in mass
pup abandonment and starvation.
4. How does culling affect tourism in Namibia, where one
third of all foreign visitors come from Germany?
Answer: The favourite time of travel amongst German
travellers, which is July and August, coincides with the
peak of the seal cull season from July and November.
The Cape Cross seal colony, – which accounts for 50 per
cent of the cull quota and which is also the historical
site where Portuguese explorer Diego Cao went ashore in
1485 –, is a favourite destination amongst German tourists.
Sealers club baby seals from 5am to 10am, sweep and cover
the blood-soaked sand and then open the seal colony to
paying German tourists. These tourists are ignorant of the
morning cull that takes place every day for 139 days from
July to November. German tourists also support the Seal
Curio shop, purchasing culled seal items, which are then
brought back to Germany illegally. Ignorant too, are most
Germans that Germany has banned the import of Cape fur seal
products.
5. What countries have banned the import of Cape fur seal
products so far?
Answer: Cape fur seal products are banned from import in
the USA since 1971, in Mexico, Croatia, Belgium, Italy,
South Africa and most recently in Germany and Netherlands.
In violation of US law, Namibian sealers in 2002 attempted
to import 5000 seal skins into the USA which was seized. US
NOAA special agent has requested help in tracking Namibia's
illegal skin exports. South Africa on two occasions in 2003
criminally convicted importers with skins exported form
Namibian sealers
6. Why have imports of Cape seal products been banned
relatively late in comparison with other skins of other
seal species?
Answer: When the European Commission’s predecessor banned
imports of baby seal products in 1983, the European
legislators knew nothing about the 90 per cent nursing baby
seal cull (85.000) in Namibia. Consequently, Cape fur seals
were excluded. This is somewhat strange, as harp and hooded
seals have never been endangered and are five times large
in population size, whereas Cape fur seals are endangered,
and have been UN/CITES listed since 1977. Seeing this
market gap, Namibian sealers have since exported almost all
their baby seal products to Europe. Namibia is the only
country in the world to club baby seals. Even northern
hemisphere countries wrote into their sealing regulations a
ban on harvesting baby seals since 1987.
7. The Namibian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources
Dr. Abraham Iyambo claims that he is mandated to harvest
seal under the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. Is
this correct?
Answer: This is not true. Under Namibian Constitution the
Ministry is mandated to utilize the seal resource on a
sustainable consumptive or non-consumptive basis. Dr.
Iyambo cannot replace the word “utilize” with “harvest”,
and as an option not apply a non-consumptive policy. South
Africa has a non-consumptive seal management policy.
Namibian seal cull is in unlawful violation of the South
Africa and Namibian constitution with regard to
sustainability.
8. Declining biological data suggests there is a general
need to decreased effort on all established commercial
fisheries. Why does seal harvesting nevertheless continue?
Answer: In his February 2006 Annual Address to the Namibian
Fishing Industry Dr. Abraham Iyambo is actually on record
of demanding a moratorium on new rights for at least next 5
years and a “total of 33 rights of exploitation due to
expire end 2007/early 2008, (of these) 2 sealing rights”.
In view of the fact that three sealing companies had
sealing rights in 2006, the Minister is duty bound to allow
two of those Seal Rights to expire in 2007, effectively
ending Namibia's 3 man sealing industry.
9. How important is sealing for the Namibian industry?
Sealing generates less than 120 part-time jobs and earns
less than USD $100 000. It accounts for 0,01% of Namibia
fishery exports.
10. How important is the Namibian fishing industry in the
seal culling issue?
Answer: At present 98 per cent of the fish harvested along
the Namibian coast is exported and only 2 per cent consumed
locally. Fish exports represent about 3 – 5 percent of GDP.
Although South Africa stopped its seal cull policy when
Namibian became independent, its publicly listed fishing
companies remained invested in Namibia’s fisheries and its
main importers. Since independence, Namibia has doubled its
fishery landings, catch and capacity from 300.0000 tons to
600.000 tons. Ultimately South African fishing companies
are behind Namibia´s seal cull policy, which is in
violation of the South African Constitution of the
non-consumptive use of endangered seals.
11. How valid is the Namibian government’s argument that
the seals are consuming 900.000 tonnes of fish a year, more
than a third of the fishing industry catch?
Scientific research states that a quantitive comparison
cannot be made. Moreover the vast majority of Namibia's
fishery is pelagic, which is turned into fishmeal to supply
the livestock and petfood industries. Ultimately the cow
and domestic cat is the greatest predator of marine fish.
Do we then cull cows and cats?
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LETTER BY ACTION AGAINST POISONING:
The
Hague, 20 July 2007
Rt.
Hon. Nahas Angula
Prime
Minister of Namibia
Dear Mister
Nahas Angula,
Action
Against Poisoning fights animal poisoning in particular and
supports animal protection efforts in general. As we fully
agree with the goals, rescue methods and actions of Seal
Alert S.A. we have a long standing cooperation with Mr.
Francois Hugo. We share his concerns on the sorry plight of
a dwindling Cape Fur Seal population. We are deeply
concerned about the Cape Fur Seal culling in your
country.
It is clear
to us that especially the killing of suckling baby seals is
against any human morality. The deliberate cruelty reflects
a total disdain for animal protection laws and disregard of
the value of animal life and probably any life for that
matter.
This
violation of human morality can never be justified by
financial gain or labour policies.
We are
convinced that cruelty towards animals breeds the same
attitude towards people. It makes killing easy. So if we
want to stop wars, we certainly want to stop a callous
animal massacre that breeds the mentality to start
wars.
For these
reasons we beg you to stop the current culling of seals.
And we hope that your meeting with Francois Hugo will
be fruitful.
With kind
regards,
Drs P.M.
Donker
Action
Against Poisoning
The Hague,
The Netherlands
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From: NIKKI BOTHA
Subject:
Meeting with the Prime Minister of Namibia to Discuss
Sealing
Date: July 19, 2007 7:31:01 PM
In
an historic move, the Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula (Prime Minister
of
Namibia), has graciously agreed to meet with Seal Alert
South Africa to
discuss the issue of sealing, on Monday the 23rd of July.
The meeting will
be held at the office of the Prime Minister in Namibia.
I hereby invite you and your organisation to write a letter
to the Rt.
Hon.Nahas Angula if you so wish. All the letters will be
presented in
person to the Prime Minister at the meeting. The letter
should be on an
official letterhead and be attached to an email to me. Here
is the snag: I
will need all letters by the end of business day on Friday
the 20th of
July.
I look forward to hearing from you, keep the passion,
Nikki Botha
Seal Alert South Africa - Spokesperson
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From: SEALALERT SA - SCROLL DOWN FOR
EARLIER INFO
Date: July 17, 2007
11:20:16 AM
Breaking News - Prime Minister of Namibia Agrees to Meet
With Seal Alert-SA
Seal
Alert-SA, Press Release July 17, 2007.
Prime
Minister of Namibia Agrees to Meet With Seal
Alert-SA
Right
Honourable Prime Minister Nahas Angula and Francois Hugo of
Seal Alert-SA
Please see below email correspondence. The Prime Minister
of Namibia has agreed to meet Seal Alert-SA to discuss the
Seal Culling in Namibia.
This is an
historic development for all parties concerned. I ask that
all send the Namibian Government and the Prime Minister a
thank you letter. I will do my best to convince the Prime
Minister why the Seal Cull must be halted immediately, and
to endeavour to assist Namibia with its environmental
fishery problems, to which the seals are a key aspect.
It therefore important
for us all to come together and support this initiative,
and achieve a win-win for all, humans, fish and seals.
Seal Alert-SA has
requested an official invitation, and as soon as it
arrives, we will be off.
On behalf of the
seals, Seal Alert-SA deeply thanks you all for this
tremendous support. Holding Thumbs !
Seal Alert-SA wrote :
Rt. Hon. Nahas Ngula, we can come up to Namibia any which
time is convenient for you. The sooner the better as this
is reaching critical proportions. Could you please
therefore send us an official letter that we are meeting
with yourself (the Honourable Prime Minister of Namibia)
and that we will be discussing seal culling issues.
Warm regards,
Nikki
Seal Alert South Africa - Spokesperson
Yes, any time!
----- Original Message -----
From:
nikkibotha@mailbox.co.za
To: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Seals vs. Iraq
Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, would you consider meeting with us?
For the Seals
Francos Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27 (0) 21 790 8774
* . * . *
Date: July 17, 2007
12:59:17 AM GMT+01:00
Com'on Namibian Prime
Minister To Stop Talking To Seal Supporters ,Deal Directly
with Seal Alert-SA, and the Issues at
Hand
Com'on Namibian
Prime Minister To Stop Talking To Seal Supporters
,
Deal
Directly with Seal Alert-SA, and the Issues at
Hand
Right
Honourable Nahas Angula and Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA
and suckling Cape fur seal pup
Let's
Talk Seal Issues !
International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) understood this when its
director replied to Voice of The Cape Radio, "Not to pass
the buck but the NGO that is actively involved in seal
conservation in southern Africa is Seal Alert SA - I have
copied Francois Hugo in on this email in this regard.
Since the
Namibian Cabinet Media Briefing on June 27, 2007 -
announcing the sealing culling quota for 2007 of 80 000
pups. Which started on July 1.
Seal
Alert-SA's Francois Hugo, the organization behind the
Namibian Anti-Seal Hunt campaign since 2006, has repeatedly
requested a face-to-face meeting or correspondence >from
the Namibian Ministry. To date to no avail, not even the
decency of an acknowledgement or reply from anyone with the
Namibian government. All phone calls and faxed messages
remained ignored.
It is
somewhat strange, when government run newspaper New Era, on
July 5, publishes an article "Govt Pans Seal Rights Body"
stating, "Government has slammed animal rights body Seal
Alert-South Africa. In a strongly worded statement, the
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources on Wednesday
accused Seal Alert-South Africa of rumour-mongering and
falsifying information about Namibia's seal harvest".
Although Rodrick
Mukumbira of Associated Press interview with Francois Hugo
of Seal Alert-SA article was published
unprecedented around the world on July 6, even
appearing on AOL, FOXNews and CNN, with the seal
clubbing photograph supplied by Seal Alert-SA earning the
Yahoo title as the "Most Recommended Photograph in the
World".
The Namibian
Ministry would still not open communication.
It is even
stranger, when Seal Alert-SA learnt that the Prime Minister
of Namibia is engaged with repeated email correspondence
with Seal Supporters of Seal Alert-SA from around the
world, but still continues to ignore communication with the
organization itself.
Seal Alert-SA
lists some of these comments from the Right Honourable
Prime Minister Nanhas Angula of Namibia.
"You mean the
seals are more important than the life of people of Iraq!
You must be mad!seals are harvested on sustainable
basis just like you do with
chickens or similar living beings! Stop the slaughter of
the people of Iraq!" (German Seal supporter)
"I am equally appaled
by your country's lack of compassion with the people
of Iraq.Your troops are part to the slaughter of Iraqi
people! (Australian Seal supporter)
"That is
fatalism! Send the same masage to President Bush or Mr
Howard. The Namibian seal are pretected by the Namibian
Constitution which reads:" maintenace of ecosystems
essential ecological processes and biological diversity7 of
Namibia and utililasation of living resources on
sustainagle basisfor the benefit of all Namibians, both
present and future..." Thank you
for the understanding."
"I hope you direct
those great thoughts to Preside4nt Bush! The slaughter of
Iraqi people is more horrific than the harvesting of
seals!"
"Namibia is peace loving
country. There is no war here! Yes, we do have fishing and
other marine resource industry which are managed on
sustainable basis.!"
Seal Alert-SA Seal
Supporters are questioning whether these replies are indeed
coming from the Prime Minister. The email says, -----
Original Nachricht ----
Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na.
With one supporter stating,
"Below is the reply I just received from Nahus Angula.
Its so unprofessional, I doubt very much it is the PM of
Namibia". Another wrote WTF????
For some strange reason, the
Prime Minister of Namibia is fixated on the slaughter of
the People of Iraqi and the actions of President Bush and
Prime Minister Howard, that he is venturing to vent his
frustration to supporters of Seal Alert-SA Anti-Seal
Hunt Campaign to end the Namibian Seal Slaughter of baby
seals in Namibia. Ignoring his cabinet decision on
June 27, to slaughter 80 000 endangered baby seals suckling
on mothers milk (non fish eaters) each year for the next
three years.
Or, is the Prime Minister engaged
in some kind of reverse psychology with Seal
Alert-SA's supporters?
Is he suggesting that nothing
short of a war (like Iraq) will stop the Namibian
government from slaughtering endangered baby
seals or that the war over resources was started with Bush,
and that until we stop that, we will never stop Namibia's
baby seal cull of seals to save fish?
If the Prime Minister can prove
how increasing a seal pup quota from 65 000 (2005) to 85
000 (2006), whilst a major mass die-off was taking place,
and which thereafter during the next 2006/2007 pup breeding
season, a further 62 per cent of the pups will die from
natural causes, excluding any further mass die-off from
starvation. That the stated pup population of 205 500 pups
(2005) born in December, less the 62 per cent that will die
before seal culling season starts on July 1, leaving at
best 78 050 pups alive in the whole of Namibia, that 80 000
pups can be sustainable harvested every year for the next
three years?
I will stop the campaign and boycotts of
Namibia.
Namibia is setting a dangerous global
precedent. Today it is culling fish eating seals to
save fish. When the seals are all gone, Tomorrow will it be
calls to cull poor fish consuming humans so that rich
humans can purchase more fish. Will rich countries then
cull poor countries.
Seals have been around for over five
millions year, prior to exploitation, disturbance by man
and his thoughts of sustainable harvests. If they did not
need it then, to be culled to 'balance and save fish' why
now when endangered and most of their former habit is
extinct?
Is Namibia saying, the universal right
of a living creature to suckle milk from a mother is a
crime?
What is truly sad, sick even, Namibia
has doubled fishery catch and exports 98 per
cent, only 2 per cent is consumed locally. The cow and
domestic cat are the largest predator of marine fish, as
seals have no option but to eat fish, should they not
rather cull cows and cats to save fish or just go vegan?
The longer Namibia takes to end its
Seal Cull - The Larger the support for Seal Alert-SA grows
and the louder and more damage.
End it now Namibia. It is just not worth
it for the sake of three seal rights holders and the
part-time work for 120 unemployed, poor and destitute
workers.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27 (0) 21 790 8774
www.boycottnamibia.co.za
www.seashepherd.org
www.sealalertsa.net
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*
Date: July 13, 2007
11:48:39 PM
Personal Communication from Francois Hugo :Prime Minister
of Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's Anti-Seal
Cull Campaign
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Sealalert
To:
nangula@opm.gov.na
Cc:
aiyambo@mfmr.gov.na
;
knguvauva@mfmr.gov.na
;
nmbako@mfmr.gov.na
;
secretary@namibia.org.za
;
hpohamba@op.gov.na
;
wkonjore@met.gov.na
;
mlindeque@met.gov.na
;
amieze@met.gov.na
;
b.beytell@mweb.com.na
;
u.boois@met.gov.na
;
namugongo@africaonline.com.na
;
wamagulu@met.gov.na
;
info@namibiatourism.com.na
;
namibia@saol.com
;
lmupetami@mweb.com.na
;
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;
namibia-highcomm@btconnect.com
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germany@iway.na
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:31 AM
Subject: Personal Communication from Francois Hugo :Prime
Minister of Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's
Anti-Seal Cull Campaign
Seal Alert-SA, Press Release July 14, 2007
Prime
Minister of Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's
Anti-Seal Cull Campaign
Right
Honourable Prime Minister of Namibia Nahas Angula
On July
13, 2007 - thirteen days into the 80 000 endangered baby
nursing seal slaughter in Namibia, where an estimated 8000
baby seals have been already clubbed to death. Seal
Alert-SA supporter in Germany receives two email
replies directly from the Prime Minister of Namibia, Right
Honourable Nahas Angula regarding her email, "Namibia's
Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal Pups and Bulls".
15:01 on
July 12, 2007 - Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, "As I write this the
people of Baghdad are being slaughtered for no good reason!
Save the Iraqi people!
07:38 on
July 13, 2007 - Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, "You mean the
seals are more important than the life of the people of
Iraq! You must be mad! seals are harvested on sustainable
basis just like you do with chickens or similar living
beings! Stop the slaughter of the people of Iraq!
Upon being
forwarded this email, Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA is
somewhat speechless and confused in how to reply?
Firstly I
would suggest the Prime Minister of Namibia rather use his
diplomatic channels and convey his country's thoughts, and
his own, directly to United States of America, President
George Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Appealing to them directly to end their "War on Terror" and
to Save the Iraqi people. Perhaps he would like Seal
Alert-SA to do so on his and the Namibian governments
behalf, I am not sure exactly what he means?.
If he could
supply Seal Alert-SA with the President's White House red
direct telephone number and that for Tony Blair's at 10
Downing Street - I will most certainly do so or would he
like me to start a campaign?
Like Seal
Alert-SA and its worldwide supporters are doing appealing
to the Namibian President, Prime Minister and its Ministers
to stop the innocent slaughter of 80 000 endangered nursing
baby seals who do not consume fish, I could appeal to Bush
and Blair on Namibia's behalf to end the slaughter of the
Iraqi people.
If I do this,
could you as Prime Minister of Namibia at least consider to
do Seal Alert-SA and its supporters the justice of
announcing an immediate Halt! to the slaughter of the 80
000 baby seals in Namibia who do not consume fish.
For I can assure
you, Right Honourable Prime Minister the slaughter of every
baby Cape fur Seal born in Namibia in 2007 is NOT
sustainable.
I await your
Presidential reply and close co-operation between our two
civilised organizations. My direct telephone number is 27
(0) 21 790 8774.
You may wish to
see for yourself the innocent slaughter of these
seals,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOzp_uh-3ls
or
consider starting a boycott website,
http://www.boycottnamibia.co.za/index.php just
like we have done.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
An:
emailaddress known by
Sealalert-SA
Datum: 12.07.2007 15:01
Betreff: Re: Namibia's Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal
Pups & Bulls
As I write this the people of Bagdad areb being slaughtered
for no good
reason! Save the Iraqi people!
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Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
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Datum: 13.07.2007 07:38
Betreff: Re: Re: Namibia's Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal
Pups & Bulls
You mean the seals are more important than the life of
people of Iraq! You
must be mad! seals are harvested on sustainable basis just
like you do with
chickens or similar living beings! Stop the slaughter of
the people of Iraq!
