Nigerian President faces Planned Demonstration in London over Bloody Massacre

May 10, 2016Uncategorized
PRESS RELEASE – #Nigeria: Nigerian president faces demonstration over bloody massacre

The protest, called by IHRC, is intended to draw attention to the Nigerian government’s failure to establish any robust mechanisms to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the atrocity which targeted the Islamic Movement of Nigeria.

More than 1000 people are believed to have been killed on 12-14 December 2015 when Nigerian armed forces attacked the movement in its home city of Zaria in northern Nigeria targeting its members and supporters, property, religious places and symbols.

IMN leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat were both shot in the attack and their family home burned down and demolished. Both are currently in the custody of Nigeria’s secret services, detained without charge. Three of their sons were killed in the attack.

The military assault appears to have been pre-planned, highly organised and targeted. During their orgy of violence soldiers targeted the leadership of the IMN and its symbols. They destroyed the Hussainiyyah Baqiyatullah which served as the movement’s headquarters, demolished the premises housing the tomb of Sheikh Zakzaky’s mother and smashed up graves belonging to the victims of another army massacre in July 2014 which led to the killing of 34 civilians, most of them IMN supporters.

The majority of deaths were caused by gunshots fired by soldiers. Some were reportedly burnt alive or hacked to death with machetes and knives. Reports have also emerged of sexual violence by soldiers including cases of rape against women affiliates of the IMN.

The state government in Kaduna has set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) but human rights organisations believe it is not sufficiently independent and impartial to be able to hold those responsible to account, nor is there any reasonable prospect of any prosecutions. However, one key revelation to emerge from the JCI is an admission by the Kaduna state government that it presided over the burials of 374 victims in a mass grave shortly after the attack.

On 21 March 2016, IHRC wrote to the International Criminal Court urging it to investigate the massacre. It called on the international tribunal which has a mandate to prosecute people for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, to open a preliminary enquiry on the grounds that the crimes committed by the Nigerian army meet all the necessary legal requirements to warrant a preliminary investigation by the ICC prosecutor.

President Buhari will be in London to attend a global anti-corruption summit taking place on Thursday, 12 May. In light of this IHRC has planned an emergency protest for the same day from 7.45am to 7pm. The venue is the Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St. James’s, London SW1A 1BB).

Since he assumed office President Buhari has stressed his commitment to upholding the rule of law in Nigeria. However, this commitment would appear to be undermined by the fact that no criminal prosecutions have been brought over the July 2014 or December 2015 massacres and that both Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat continue to be held without charge.

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protest everywhere

This your source ehn

As a country we are facing tough time but we shall succeed

Hmmm...this issue is gaining global attention. When will it finally did down?

We yoruba muslims support Buhari in the shiite massacre. The shiites are infidels.

MrAdetunjiBayo:
We yoruba muslims support Buhari in the shiite massacre. The shiites are infidels.

Ibo man from ABIA ashamed of his own tribe. Lnao

Killing innocent citizens while murderous terrorist are getting rehabilitated...the height of hypocrisy in this Godforsaken nation stinks to high heaven

What do you expect? when the leader is an archaic!!!!!!. Well this is how libya started her turmoil , like syria followed suit now we are all know what's happening in syria now!!!.

MrAdetunjiBayo:
We support Buhari in the shiite massacre. The shiites are infidels.

it will be better if u take side with justice for the sake of a better 2moro. God bless Nigeria.

MrAdetunjiBayo:
We yoruba muslims support Buhari in the shiite massacre. The shiites are infidels.

if the penalty for being an infidel is death, then you still have many more millions to kill both in and outside of Nigeria.

what is the difference between this your idea of killing people for being infidels and Boko Haram or ISIS' ideology of killing those they deem infidels? this Wahhabi Takfirism must cease.

how can one Muslim call another an infidel? you know the Prophet said a Muslim who refers to another as an infidel is the one that is the infidel. Shiites believe in Allah and His Unique Oneness and the prophethood of Muhammad (p).

killing people for what they believe in is not justified in a democracy and in a secular state where freedom of belief is a right, even if truly the Shiites are infidels in your estimation or they even worship images and animals. there are many infidels in Nigeria, including the Christian sects. are you going to kill them too? that will amount to ethnic/religious cleansing or genocide.

Rikidony:
As a country we are facing tough time but we shall succeed

by the special grace of God.......we shall succeed!!

Rafidi:


if the penalty for being an infidel is death, then you still have many more millions to kill both in and outside of Nigeria.

what is the difference between this your idea of killing people for being infidels and Boko Haram or ISIS' ideology of killing those they deem infidels? this Wahhabi Takfirism must cease.

how can one Muslim call another an infidel? you know the Prophet said a Muslim who refers to another as an infidel is the one that is the infidel. Shiites believe in Allah and His Unique Oneness and the prophethood of Muhammad (p).

killing people for what they believe in is not justified in a democracy and in a secular state where freedom of belief is a right, even if truly the Shiites are infidels in your estimation or they even worship images and animals. there are many infidels in Nigeria, including the Christian sects.

You shiites are idolators and infidels, we yoruba muslims support the action against you infidels. More grease to Buratai's guns. The government has a monopoly of violence! Sai baba!

My people are useless my people are senseless my people are indisciplined. Dem wan dash us human rights animal wan dash us human rights! Craze world! Na craze world we dey no be outside Buhari dey craze world! Na craze Man be that Animal in craze man skin o.

Lalasticlala

MrAdetunjiBayo:

You shiites are idolators and infidels, we yoruba muslims support the action against you infidels. More grease to Buratai's guns. The government has a monopoly of violence! Sai baba!

start by killing your fellow Yorubas who are idolators. but wait, dont people have right to be idolators and infidels?

Rafidi:


start by killing your fellow Yorubas who are idolators. but wait, dont people have right to be idolators and infidels?

We've already started that's why we yoruba muslims took sides with the hausa during the mile12 crisis.

MrAdetunjiBayo:


We've already started that's why we yoruba muslims took sides with the hausa during the mile12 crisis.

i doubt you speak on behalf of Yorubas. Yorubas are the most religiously diverse people in Nigeria and the most tolerant.

find out the number of Shiite Muslims among Yoruba. start even here on Nairaland. the number one Shiite preacher in the Islam forum is Albaqir, a Yoruba. you are either not Yoruba and trying to give Yoruba a bad name, or you are not well.

Na was oh
Host prime minister Cameron insult buhari that he is fantastically corrupt

Nigerians too are staging protest against buhari too

Buhari took 30 cars to his village

Nobody wants to see buhari

Its better for buhari to do like abacha just seat in aso rock

What a frustrated President

MrAdetunjiBayo:


We've already started that's why we yoruba muslims took sides with the hausa during the mile12 crisis.

Ibo man from Abia disgracing his tribe since 1708BC

Rikidony:
As a country we are facing tough time but we shall succeed

That's was the last thing Lord Lugard said as he returned to Britain

KingTom:
My people are useless my people are senseless my people are indisciplined. Dem wan dash us human rights animal wan dash us human rights! Craze world! Na craze world we dey no be outside Buhari dey craze world! Na craze Man be that Animal in craze man skin o.

This oga just dey talk offpoint!

RobinHez:


This oga just dey talk offpoint!

go and listen to Beast of no nation by Fela Anikulapo Kuti it will explain everything

Rafidi:


i doubt you speak on behalf of Yorubas. Yorubas are the most religiously diverse people in Nigeria and the most tolerant.

find out the number of Shiite Muslims among Yoruba. start even here on Nairaland. the number one Shiite preacher in the Islam forum is Albaqir, a Yoruba. you are either not Yoruba and trying to give Yoruba a bad name, or you are not well.

The sim..pleton you are quoting is an impostor from the gully ravaged land of the rising poverty.. He's one of the flat..headed gullIBOS

Reminez:

The sim..pleton you are quoting is an impostor from the gully ravaged land of the rising poverty.. He's one of the flat..headed gullIBOS

la hawla wala quwwata illah billah.

youngberry001:
by the special grace of God.......we shall succeed!!

AMEN