Public statement of complaint
on my entry denial to Ukraine and the deportation
(for state organs of Ukraine, mass media,
for many friends in Ukraine and all over the world)
My name is Junsei Terasawa, Japanese citizen, and Buddhist
monk for 36 years of the Nipponzan Myohoji Order, direct
disciple of one of the most well known great Buddhist
Teacher of modern history of Asia, the Most Venerable
Nichidatsu Fujii. I have been a Teacher of the Buddhist
community of Nipponzan Myohoji in
My latest denial of the entry to
Mostytska-2,
late evening on
Warsaw-lvov train. According to the explanation of the
officials of the border guard service, there is the
instruction of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine), which
prohibit me to enter Ukraine till the year 3000 and orders
to invalidify my Ukraine visa on my passport. My
visa in the passport was stamped as invalid and another
stamp was put prohibiting my entry to
In fact, similar incident already took place at the
Boryspil airport immigration in
when I was forcefully sent back to
airplane I took.
On both occasions I was not explained anything but that it
is the instruction of SBU. There were no further
explanations about the substance of those reasons, neither
about the legal content of such acts. Who made such a
judgment? How such a decision was made? On what accounts?
What legal basis on which SBU can function to bring such an
order? How can I defend my right and complaint through due
legal process? Can SBU be free from any legal norms, by
which any citizens can challenge it, so as to find the
truth and defend their rights?
I regard this SBU instruction on me, about which substance
I have no right know, is unreasonable, unjust and illegal.
My case indicates the dangerous precedent of the left over
of the secret service totalitarian political culture, which
is immune from any accountability.
Meanwhile, between those two events of my entry denial to
the upheaval of the Orange Revolution. My public statements
and continued public actions by our Order.s community
throughout this historic nonviolent mass uprising were well
known and well documented in the mass media. Praying
Buddhist monks were featured often in the specially made TV
appeal for the unity and reconciliation of
My strain with organs of the former Soviet Union.s secret
services began when I and my Order.s communities engaged in
the public activities appealing for the end of the atrocity
in the Chechen conflict and for the peaceful solution to
this tragedy. Russian FSB put my name on their special
closed list on the year 2000, and now I am on the list in
nonviolence is well recorded and open. Many peace
initiatives and peace actions in different parts of the
world are documented in my biographical profile.
My case is not simply the individual matter, but
significant legal contradictions of the post Soviet
transition, important indication of the conflict between
the fundamental principles of the individual freedoms,
democracy on one hand, and legacy of totalitarian power
cult, which stubbornly struggle to retain its control over
the people.
I appeal the newly born post Orange Revolution Ukraine to
address this issue seriously and remove all old power
institutions, which still act freely to infringe my
fundamental right of expression, of conscience, of faith,
of free movements. And I pray wholeheartedly that
indeed can restore the Truth and Justice for which millions
of people in
Rev. JunseiTerasawa
E-mail: myohoji@land.ru