Dear friends, petitioners and supporters

I submit to you another extract from my book: "The Killing Fields of South Africa"

A Note to the Reader

My dear friend,

You hold in your hands a chronicle of pain and a testament to hope. This book is not an academic study; it is a cry from the heart of a nation that is bleeding. It is the story of my life, woven into the fabric of South Africa’s struggle—from the hopeful dawn of our democracy to the terrifying shadow of violence that now engulfs us.

I have written these words from the front lines of this crisis. From the dusty streets of Bonteheuwel where I was raised, to the hallowed halls of Parliament where I helped draft our Constitution, and back to the pulpits and community kitchens where I now minister to the broken and the hungry. I have seen the best of what we can be, and I am witnessing the worst of what we have become.

The statistics you will read are not numbers. They are mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. They are empty chairs at dinner tables and graves that should never have been dug. The failure I document is not a political abstraction; it is the cold reality of a police force that cannot protect its people and a state that has, through corruption and indifference, broken its sacred covenant with its citizens.

I ask you to read this not with a sense of distant pity, but with a feeling of shared humanity. The right to live in safety and dignity is universal. When it is trampled anywhere, it is diminished everywhere. I ask for your prayers, your awareness, and your voice. Share this story. Break the silence that surrounds our suffering. For in the economy of God, no one is free until we are all free.

In solidarity and faith,

Bishop Louis Michael Green

A Note to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
 

Your Excellency, Mr. António Guterres,

I address you today with the heavy heart of a pastor and the desperate hope of a citizen. I write not to critique a government, but to plead for the lives of its people. On behalf of the hundreds of thousands who have signed my petition, and the millions more who live in daily, mortal fear, I bring this urgent appeal to your office—the world’s highest court of conscience.

The South African government is failing to uphold its most fundamental duty under the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the protection of the right to life. Our people are being slaughtered in their homes, farms, and streets at a rate that shames humanity. The instruments of the state, designed to protect, are often complicit through corruption and incompetence. The social contract has been shattered.

This document provides evidence of a criminal justice system in catastrophic collapse and a human rights crisis that can no longer be ignored. We have exhausted all domestic avenues. Our cries for help have been met with denial and inaction.

Therefore, I implore you, as Secretary-General, to intervene. We do not ask for soldiers; we ask for witnesses. We ask for investigators. We ask for the weight of the international community to demand accountability and to support the restoration of justice and the rule of law in South Africa.

The world stood with us to end apartheid. We now ask the world to stand with us again to end the killing. Do not let the dream of a free and peaceful South Africa die in a nightmare of violence. Hear our cry. Act with courage.

In solemn hope for justice,

Bishop Louis Michael Green

Suffragan Bishop, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World

60th Episcopal District, Western Cape

Republic of South Africa

Email: fuller.wcape.green@gmail.com