by Andrea Muhrrteyn
06 December 2010
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The Offices of Ambassador Rob de Vos and Consul David de Wall, acknowledged receipt of the African White Refugees Petition, from 34 Founding Petitioners to Europe; 14 of whom are petitioning the Netherlands Government.
Ambassador de Vos is requested to transparently officially forward the Volkstaat Secession / Jus Sanguinis Petition and African White Refugees Briefing Paper to Officials and citizens of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
Petition letters delivered to the Dutch Embassy were addressed to: The Dutch Royal Family: Queen Beatrix, the Prince of Orange, Prince Constantijn, Prince Laurentien, Princess Magriet, Princess Maxima, and Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven; leaders of political parties: Geert Wilders (Partij voor de Vrijheid - PVV), Kees van der Staaij (Staatkundige Gereformeerde partij - SGP), Mark Rutte (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy - VVD), and Job Cohen (Labour Party - PvdA).
Other recipients of the petition included European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA) organisations and legal experts on Refugee and Nationality law in Holland: Sadhia Rafi (ELENA), Prof. Ben Vermeulen and Dr. Thomas Spijkerboer (ELENA - Vrije Univ. Amsterdam), Prof. Cees Groendijk (ELENA - Katholieke Univ), Prof. Gerard-Rene de Groot (Nationality Law - Maastricht Univ), various Refugee Agencies, including the UN High Commission Regional Refugee Office in The Hague.
The Petition reads as follows:Volkstaat Secession; or Jus Sanguinis Right-of-Return Founding Petitioners descended from Kingdom of Netherlands / Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Stamvaders/Progenitors: Hermanus BOSMAN, Andreas Lutgerus KOLVER, Arnoldus Mauritius MEIRING, Meindert Jansz NOOME, Hendrik Cornelisz OLIVIER, Jan Harmensz STEENKAMP, Bartus VAN TIL, Willem VAN ZYL and Gysbert VERWEY; hereby petition the Kingdom of Netherlands / Koninkrijk der Nederlanden: Queen Beatrix and the Dutch Royal Family, Government Officials, business, media, academic, religious and civil society citizens, and former Anti-Apartheid Movement Activists for:



























































