The law firm of Fein &
DelValle PLLC has announced that it, “is drafting a criminal indictment against
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant
General Tukur Yusfu Buratai, for genocide and crimes against humanity under the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.”
The firm said in a statement
issued at the weekend in Washington, D.C. USA, that it is pursuing the case,
“on behalf of Biafrans who covet justice – the dead, the living, and those yet
to be born”.
According to the statement signed by renowned Attorney, Mr. Bruce Fein, and his
Partner, Mr. W. Bruce DelValle, “Buhari and Buratai are criminally culpable
because of their command responsibility over security forces operating under
their direction or control and who are terrorising tens of millions of Biafrans
specifically because of their Christianity and ethnicity.”
“The crimes include extrajudicial
killings, torture, and sister unspeakable horrors. They are the grisly
signature of Buhari’s and Buratai’s ongoing military campaign in the South East
region with the euphemistic moniker Operation Python Dance II.
“The indictment being drafted by Fein & DelValle will be presented to Chief
Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda. It will be modeled after the genocide or
crimes against humanity indictments returned against Serbia’s Slobodan
Milosevic, Sudan’s Omar Bashir, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Chad’s Hissen Habre,
and Cambodia’s Comrade Duch.
“The overwhelming majority of
Biafrans cannot speak for themselves without risking lethal retaliation by
President Buhari or Lt. General Buratai. That fear explains the reason the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the motion of
Fein & DelValle to reference their ten (10) Biafran plaintiffs anonymously
in their Torture Victims Protection Act suit against sixteen (16) individual
Nigerian defendants in Doe, et al. v. Buratai, et al., Civil Action No.
1:17-cv-0133.
“Fein & Delvalle are
gathering photographic, video, and testimonial evidence of the ongoing genocide
and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Buhari and Buratai against Igbos not
only in the South East region, but also in northern Nigeria and elsewhere.
There is no safe haven in Nigeria for them. Last June, Hausa Fulani youths in
northern Nigeria (Arewa) with impunity threatened to evict eleven million Igbos
from their homes and businesses in northern Nigeria by force and violence if
they did not quit the area by October 1, 2017.
“We are confident that 50 million
Igbos in Nigeria were not born with saddles on their backs ready to be ridden
by booted and spurred Hausa-Fulani with the grace of God. Criminal prosecutions
of Buhari and Buratai before the International Criminal Court are the best way
of teaching that gospel.”
Mr. Fein and Mr. DelValle
expressed optimism that,“the prosecutions of Buhari and Buratai will prompt the
United Nations Security Council to task the United Nations Electoral Unit to
conduct a referendum on Biafran independence in the South East region; and, to
operate a transitional government for a six-month period prior to the balloting
to avoid any intimidation of the voters. It is no accident that South Sudan
achieved independence on the heels of President Bashir’s ICC indictment for
genocide in Darfur”.
“Nigeria’s current borders were
drawn by a racist British colonial master more than a century ago with no
reference to the inhabitants. The boundaries are morally, legally, and
politically indefensible.
The Government of Nigeria does not reflect popular
will on that score. It rules under a 1999 Constitution that was decreed by a
military dictator for the purpose, among other things, of holding Igbos in
bondage to Hausa-Fulani terrorists.
“Britain defaulted on its decolonisation obligation to permit
self-determination referenda by each of the separate and distinct peoples of
Nigeria. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514, December 14, 1960,
provides: ‘All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that
right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their
economic, social and cultural development’.”
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DeleteYou can see for urself that u lacked knowledge,my people perish for lack of knowledge. Please wise up from ur animalistic brain and wake to reality.
DeleteJust see the kind people the British joined with the Southerners, imagine uncultured wild animals living with human beings.see this upgraded almagiri (begger), you can only live and survive in the North, no doubt. Let's see who will be interpreting the English for this Hausa/Fulani in court.
DeleteIPOB terrorists abi? Herdsmen, Boko Haram and area youths are just normal almagiris!!
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