Mr. Olivier Dupuis

Secretary General

Transnational Radical Party

97-113 Rue Belliard

1047 Bruxelles, Belgium

October 24, 1997

Dear Mr. Dupuis, MEP

I would like to thank you for your letter of 9th October 1997 regarding the establishment of International Criminal Court. I commend your efforts to bring the criminals who are responsible for the genocide and war crimes to book and face the trials so that suitable punishment can be given.

However, I would like to suggest that the ambit of the International Criminal Court should be expanded to include trial of Ex-colonial rules so as to give it a true effective organ respected and at the same time feared and not a merely toothless organ. There are vast areas in the world where people are in abject poverty because of brutal exploitation for centuries together, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which have been under the colonial rule for long where human rights have been a farce. They had looted these countries to make their country rich thereby creating abject poverty and chaos in these countries.

Therefore, enforcement of protection of human rights must sincerely begin in these highly exploited colonial ruled states. Therefore, in my opinion is that perpetrators of these heinous crimes under the colonial rules should not be allowed to go scot free and in the agenda of the court, trial of ex-colonial rulers must take a priority place. After all we have the example of the Nuremburg trial to book the persons who committed crimes on innocent people.

I hope you will include these points also in the Agenda for the proposed International Criminal Court. I appreciate your endeavours and assure you of my fullest co-operation. I look forward to hear from you soon.

With best wishes

Yours sincerely

Sanjay Dalmia

Member of Parliament

New Delhi, India