Injustices against Sri Lankans by the Sri Lankan Embassy of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Atham Lebe Nayeem

Sir Rasik Fareed Road (LDO)

Addalaichenai-08

Sri Lanka.

25^th July 2013.

Your Excellency President Mr. Mahinda Raja Paksa

The President of Democracy of Sri Lanka

The Presidential Secretariat

Sri Lanka.

Your Excellency President, Mr. Mahinda Raja Paksa

Injustices against Sri Lankans by the Sri Lankan Embassy of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

This is entirely about the problems, dangers and inconveniences being faced by the improperly documented Sri Lankan workers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during the Mercy Period, 120 days till now, provided by His Excellency King, Abdullah Ibnu Abdul Azeez.

As Your Excellency is aware through medias and heard about the wild life of Sri Lankan workers, who are unable to stabilize their current living working status there, there are thousands of our good Sri Lankans living on roads, having no food or water and even no fundamental facilities to perform the calls of natures. Since the first day of beginning of the Mercy Period provided by the Saudi Government, our people also started to do the needfulness through our well authorized Sri Lankan Embassy to correct our people’s status at least to return to our mother country, but there are thousands of our people in pending beyond the completion of the essential paper works till now.

Because, it is being served in our Jeddah Embassy on the basis of first bribe first serve. It is hundred percent true and we are ready to prove it too from our phone recordings between the officials and the poor citizens of Sri Lankans, that the calls deal through the amount of bribe. It is very clear that the bribes are being served negotiated lively from the Embassy driver to higher personnel.

The weight of the bribe decides the speed in getting one’s paper works completed. Although it is bribed and agreed for a work, it is also suddenly changed or postponed due to another heavier bribe. By this, there are our citizens in thousands still straying everyday on the roads. If one hopefully goes to the Embassy in the morning, by the evening the same one returns to his road, where he is sleeping as a house, hopelessly. It is not for a day but continues without an end till now for a person in fact.

What reason other than the bribe can be there for not helping our poor citizens by the Embassy although there are essential documents with the applicants? If one fails to agree the amount of bribe to finish his or her works from the Embassy, then the particular applicant, our citizen is being disappointed telling invalid reasons for months. Unfortunately, if the person under the Embassy’s disappointment is a female, then the bribe turns from money to sexual abuses. Incapable innocent women are used for sexual abuses beyond religions and ages. In order to get back to the mother country sooner, that poor women are quiet and obeying to officers’ tortures with no other choice.

To hear about the sexual abuses intercourses harassments in an Arabic country, it may seem amazingly but it is also hundred percent true and we can prove it too by resources if any. But it is well known about the Sri Lankan Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that it is operating its services through this sexual industry or benefits instead cash payment for bribe by even other country nationalities, who are taxi drivers there.

The funniest thing in the sexual abuse is, the most beauties come first served first. If the woman is not beautiful unluckily by her birth, then she is not eligible even for the sexual abuse by them, so that as usual her works are also getting late and in order to bribe them, the particular women are caused to become prostitutes to earn and pay the Embassy as they have also not already dwellings to stay safe.

 Although the women under Embassy’s sexual harassments are taken very privately to their Embassy staff’s personal rooms, then and now this has been caught by the public and Saudis while the harassment intercourses taken place near by the holly mosque’s premises located near to our good Embassy. So that, after being caught for the third time, mosque management ordered Embassy to change their Embassy location, as it happened when I was there, I am not aware about the current situation of this location change.

Pointing out the strength of bribe, I can say about an incident that an officer of the Sri Lankan Embassy was caught in person by the Saudi Government while playing in their computer system. For the time being that officer, Mr. Osama has been interdicted from the Embassy’s usual works operations.

Further, I can point out a case that when the special officer, Mr. Niyas ( Former Divisional Secretary and current Government Agent) from Sri Lanka visited our Embassy, he had completed some works and given the usual officers asking to process to deport the applicants,  our officers have put it back to the usual bottom of the files in order to process their clients bribed, once Mr. Niyas left the Kingdom after his period was over.

Your Excellency, all the black evil doings are happening due to our Embassy officers’ irresponsibility and greed in earning more money in short period. When we, the gentlemen of improper documented workers inquire about their unfair treat, our files are put in the backward for months and we are sent to prisons for tortures falsifying we were guilty and not obeying to the laws of Kingdom.

Your Excellency, for your view, I submit the below price list for bribes fixed by the Embassy officers.

1)      To get the temporary passport- 500.00 -700.00 SAR.

2)      To register the Iqama(Kingdom’s Identity Card) number-200.00 SAR.

3)      To get the finger marks in priority-1500.0 0 SAR.

4)      To hand the passport over to the right person after finger mark-300.00 SAR.

5)      For all services with discounts-2,500.00 SAR.

The below telephone numbers belong to sub agents.

1)      +966 5638 40374

2)      +966 5348 23147

3)      +966 5631 29732

4)      +966 5545 68348

5)      +966 54300 6898

The Best Bribery Players/Officers in the Embassy with shouting in ill manner are-

1)      Mr. Osama

2)      Mr. Niyas Naanaa, wearing spectacles

3)      Mr. Sarook, the driver of the Embassy Authority

4)      Mr. Thaaj.

Your Excellency, it is not just a writing, but the tears or the bloodshed from the poor citizens of Sri Lanka. What we can give your Excellency is this, the rest for taking severe action against these uncivilized illiterates damaging the country’s well reputation is from your Executive Power only. We hope, you, the Excellency being a poor itself will feel the pulses of the poor citizens.

Already as per a survey report revealed against the Sri Lanka few days back, the police department is at the 

top range for bribes. This Embassy’s poor criminal act may prove the above survey report if not taken any offensive actions. So that, it is upon your Excellency to cut off the viruses against Sri Lanka’s reputation and economy.

Hoping there will be a solution, revenge against these traitors, I am concluding my small submission as a one of the victims of the above.

Thanking Your Excelleny,