WE, AS PRISONERS, REALISE THE COMPLEXITIES BOTH - POLITICALLY AND DIPLOMATICALLY
THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THESE NEGOTIATION, THEREFORE IT IS NOT BLIND IGNORANCE
THAT LEADS US TO MAKE THIS APPEAL TO YOU.

RATHER, IT IS WITH A SENSE OF HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR THAT WE CALL UPON YOU 
TO CONSIDER OUR COLLECTIVE APPEAL WITH COMPASSION AND JUSTICE, AND HAVING
DONE SO, TO RELAY OUR CONCERNS AND THIS PROPOSAL ON TO THE APPROPRIATE OFFICES
CONCERNED IN OUR HOMELAND NEPAL.

THE MAIN REASON FOR THIS APPEAL, IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL LONG TERM SERVING
PRISONERS ! SEE THE CHART, AND THE ONLY HOPE THAT WE CAN SEE FOR OUR SURVIVAL
IS A PRISONER TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE TREATY.

THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO SERVE OUT MANY YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY. 
THE SENTENCE [we recived] IS NOT COMMENSURATE WITH THE SENTENCE 
WE [would] HAVE RECEIVED, HAD WE BEEN SENTENCED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY 
OR INDEED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.

THIS IS A FACTOR TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BY OTHER COUNTRIES AND ONE OF THE 
MANY REASONS WHY THE PRISONER TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE TREATY EXISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE 

SOME RELIEF, IN THE FORM OF AMNESTIES WOULD SERVE TO ADJUST THE SEVERITY OF THESE 
SENTENCES, AS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST, BUT YOUR EXCELLENCY WILL NO DOUBT BE AWARE 
THAT NO SERIOUS AMNESTY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO DRUG-OFFENDERS, SINCE 1987 AND THAT IN 1996,
ONLY A FIFTH OUT WAS GIVEN WITH - MAJOR CUTS FOR DEATH-SENTENCE AND LIFE SERVING
PRISONERS WHICH WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE EFFECT ON THEIR RELEASE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

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