We are much concerned by the
activities of a famous guru Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide organisation. There are a
number of serious allegations concerning sexual abuse (including minors) and complicity in
murders which must be investigated. Such crimes as allegedly are being covered
up by the very influential Sathya Sai Baba and the Sathya Sai Organisation are so serious
that ignoring the allegations amounts to ignoring dramatic violations of human rights
of innocent victims.
We would beg you to pay attention to a public petition for an official investigation of
Sathya Sai Baba and the Sathya Sai Organisation signed by many ex-devotees, ex-members and
former office-bearers of the Sathya Sai Organisation. This petition can be examined in
full at www.petitiononline.com/saibaba (the
full text is on the attached file).
We request that you kindly will examine this
petition and publicise it as you may see fit with an appeal to Indian authorities for
the further investigation of these matters.
We are yours sincerely,
Just
Seekers of Truth justseekers@hotmail.com
Serguei
Badaev: teacher in an independent school in Moscow, 45 years old, member of the
Sathya Sai Organisation since 1995 till 2001 (former National Education Coordinator);
address: P.O.Box 9, Moscow 125464, Russia; e-mail: badaev57@mtu-net.ru.
Margarita
Sanchez Van Dyck: Paseo San Damian s/n Maltaraña Jamay, Jalisco C. P. 47900 Mexico emails@terra.com.mx
(Phd.
Social Psychology. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.-
Formerly Professor, ITESO
University, Guadalajara, Jal. Mex. Ex-honorary advisor for the State of Jalisco
Human Rights Commission, Jal. Mex.(1997-2001)
Tel:
52 (for Mex) (392) 927 9039)
Robert
Priddy: retired researcher and lecturer in philosophy and sociology, formerly
of the University of Oslo, Norway from 1967 to 1987. UK citizen, 65 years old, a
founder member and leader for nearly two decades of the Sathya Sai Organisation in Norway.
Address:
Agathe Grøndahls gate, 2B. 0478 Oslo, Norway. Tel: (for Norway) 47 91 51
70 . E-mail rpriddy@online.no
Barry
Pittard: Retired college teacher, radio broadcaster.
Former
English lecturer at the college of Sathya Sai Baba in Whitefield. Address 599: Hunchy
Road, Hunchy. Queensland. 4555, Australia. Phone: 06 7 5442 9597 e-mai:l
bpittard@beachaccess.com.au
Websites:
Mainly
on the allegations of sexual abuse: http://www.exbaba.com and http://www.saiguru.net. And to view at either site the following
articles: "UNESCO CONFERENCE WITHOUT UNESCO" under 'Articles -
Serguei Badaev'
Shocking
inside information told about the murders told by V.K. Narasimhan and the otherwise
largely undisclosed nature of the cultish movement and international organisation are
documented and analysed extensively at http://home.no.net/rrpriddy/Sai
From:
"Brian Steel"
To:
foreign@nytimes.com
Subject:
For Keith Bradsher, please.
Date:
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 07:34:45 +1100
Dear Mr Bradsher:
I
read with interest your NYT article on 1 December about President's Kalam's courtesy visit
to Sathya Sai Baba's deemed University in India.
I think you might like to pursue this subject for your readers. There have been many
newsworthy things to broadcast about this guru since different sorts of serious
controversy began to accelerate 2 and a half years ago.
I know you are extremely busy but, if you can, please take a quick look at the news
sections of www.exbaba.com or www.saiguru.net for an idea of the extent of this much wider and up to date story which
awaits your readers. It
involves quite a lot of Americans, and others.
You might also like to do a Google search on a 2000 article by your U.K. Daily Telegraph
colleague, Mick Brown, too!
It's all there waiting!
Yours very sincerely,
Brian
Steel
(Australia)