LETTER FROM BARRY PITTARD
TO THE MINISTER OF STATE, FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE,
GREAT BRITAIN
To: Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, Great Britain.
Dear Baroness Amos,
Copies of my Open Letter to A.B. Vajpayee will also go
to the P.M. and Deputy P.M. - and a great many others. I invite you all to
read it in the light of other documentation that has been sent to you.
I request that you, Madam, do all that you can to
ensure a reactivation of British Government interest in finding a means of
warning U.K. boys and young men who may travel to Sathya Sai Baba's ashram
at Puttaparthi.
I point out that the U.S. State Department has done as
much for U.S. travellers, even despite the absence of a court conviction of
Sathya Sai Baba in India, although (disapointingly) they felt constrained to
leave his name out of the Travel Warning, though including telltale
details.
I trust Her Majesty's Government can dare to advance
an iota of the State Department effort.
It would really be a way of properly noting the nearly
fifty British MP's who have signed the Petition calling for action regarding
Sathya Sai Baba, details of which are found at: House of Commons website
Early Day Motion 886.
A few of us have put up another type of Petition on
the Internet, and it details what we feel are the most pressing key issues
in the attempt to bring official investigation of the worldwide allegations
levelled against Sathya Sai Baba. You can find our Petition at:
I shall be asking some leading British
parliamentarians and other influential British citizens to attempt to find
out whether the otherwise promising passage of this Motion was halted
because of pressure from the Indian government, whose leader, A.B.
Vajpayee, is highly partial to Sathya Sai Baba.
The Motion 886 and other moves to officially alert the
British public to the great many and responsibly made allegations of
large-scale, serial sexual molestation by Sathya Sai Baba of boys and young
men from many countries, including the U.K., (not to mention many other
terrible allegations) has suffered a fate difficult to explain.
Unless indeed explanation is to be sought, for
example, in relation to certain transactions between the Blair and Vajpayee
governments. My exeedingly well informed Indian friends assure me that Mr
Vajpayee came to great Britain determined to ask Mr Blair to assist in
curbing the growing parliamentary attention being given to Sathya Sai Baba.
Hard on the heels of their meeting, we note that the Blair Government's
interest in the Petition, and other efforts to throw light on the
allegations against Sathya Sai Baba suffered sudden demise! Too sudden to
allow our easy belief that all this was mere co-incidence.
The course of our efforts on behalf of the very many
victims of Sathya Sai Baba may, indeed, rest in your own hands, Baroness
Amos, revealing that you do indeed deeply care for justice over expediency.
Faithfully, Barry Pittard