"ملف ٨/ ٢١ شؤون دولة مسقط: المناطق التابعة لها - صور (العمليات)" [و‎‎٦] (٣٨/١١)

Copy in translation of a letter dated the 28th
Muharram 1359, from Suleiman bin Abdullah al Rawaf, to Saiyid
Saud bin Ali, Wali of Sur.
1 '1/
After Compliments.
I beg to state that my father Sheikh Abdullah bin
Ahmad al Rawaf Najdi, a Qadi resident of Bu Ali, has been
killed by the Beni Hasan intentionally without any reason. He was
attacked in the later part of the night of 24th Bfuharram in his
house and was killed by shooting. He was neither fighting nor
was there any cause for a fight, but he was killed in a battle
field. He was not carrying any weapons. They knew of his
position and place of residence. He was a foreigner to them.
As the deceased is my father and I am a subject of
Saudi Arabian Government, who are responsible to look after us,
and your station is nearest to the place of murder, I request to
you to apply the provisions of the laws existing between our two
Governments in a case of this kind. I request that you will
kindly give me the possible reasons that lead to the murder of
my father as religious and other laws demand it. I further
request that you will kindly let me know if the laws existing
between our Governments are the same that exist between our
Government and other Governments of the world. If there are
not( laws to observe between your Government and the Government
of whom I am a subject, I request for a reply so that I may refer
the matter to my Government, who are responsible to protects the
rights of their subjects.
Usual Ending.
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