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Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Morbeta11(m): 1:49pm On Mar 26, 2018
Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB members.


By Ahaoma Oji Kanu 



The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance.

This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian award winning journalist, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, following the military occupation of Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia in a bid to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, which led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group.

The letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17 dated March 20, 2018, which is the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor.

“Accordingly, your communication will be analysed in this context, with the assistance of other related communications and other available information,” the letter signed by Mark Dillon, head of the Information and Evidence Unit at the Office of the Prosecutor, read.

Members of the IPOB have come under constant attack by security agencies in Nigeria including the Nigeria Army, Directorate for State Security (DSS) and the Nigeria Police leading to the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of their members since 2015 when Nnamdi Kanu was arrested on charges of treason. After the September 16, 2017 attack on his country home, Kanu and his aged father have not been seen till date fuelling speculations he was being held by the state.

Following petitions by civil rights groups, ICC commenced and concluded preliminary investigations into the alleged killing of over 200 members of the Islamic M0vement of Nigeria (IMN) in December 2015 as well as opened preliminary investigations into the killings of members of the IPOB by the Nigeria Army soldiers in October 2015.

In a September 24, 2017 petition, CNN African Journalist Award winner, Ahaoma Kanu, filed a petition to the ICC calling for an investigation and prosecution of the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai and all members of the Nigeria Army involved in the extrajudicial killings of the IPOB members during the Operation Python Dance exercise.

Dillon stated that,” Under Article 53 of the Rome Statutes, the Prosecutor must consider whether there is reasonable basis to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court have been committed, the gravity of the crimes, whether national systems are investigating and prosecuting the relevant crimes, and the interests of justice.”

He went further to say that “Analysis will be carried out as expeditiously as possible, but please be aware that meaningful analysis of these factors can take some time,” promising to provide reasons for any decision reached by the court to proceed with the investigation.

The petitioner said he is very optimistic that the court will reach a decision to go ahead with an investigation because of the weight of evidence attached on a memory stick attached to the petition.

“I have no doubts that very soon the people responsible for turning the Nigeria Army into a killer squad which exterminates her citizens will be brought to justice. This is the second correspondence I am getting from the court and will be ready to assist the investigations as we have hard evidences to show to the investigators when the time comes. This will go a long way to show soldiers that use their weapons to shoot innocent people in Nigeria that the world is watching and justice will always catch up with them.”

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/264769/operation-python-dance-icc-to-investigate-killings-of-ipob.html

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by horsepower101: 1:51pm On Mar 26, 2018
Lalasticlala. This is front page material

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by escodotman: 1:52pm On Mar 26, 2018
Harmless and defenseless IPOB branded ''terrorists'' and quickly attacked by Buhari...whereas, his brothers-arms Miyetti Allah boasted of genocide in the middle belt and duely carried out and still carrying out their threats, killing people on a daily basis were not branded terrorists in Nigeria despite the international community branding them as the 4th most deadly group in the world just behind boko haram and ISIS. Buhari should also be investigated.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by doublewisdom: 1:54pm On Mar 26, 2018
Buhari will likely die in jail.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by taylor89(m): 1:56pm On Mar 26, 2018
Wow

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by taylor89(m): 1:58pm On Mar 26, 2018
doublewisdom:
Buhari will likely die in jail.

Not Is heaven for him










He's going for 12 months internship in hell










Before going to jail
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by midolian(m): 2:07pm On Mar 26, 2018
A thread to masturbate on by the naturally bitter ones..
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 2:09pm On Mar 26, 2018
doublewisdom:
Buhari will likely die in jail.
Not in a thousand lifetimes. Some of you are ignorant as to how the ICC works. The preliminarily investigation the ICC intends to carry out is to see whether there was a direct order given to willfully kill civilians, and if it is established that there was, next would be to determine if the Nigeria's legal system is incapable of addressing the abuses. We all know that the miscreants who got shot in Aba were not innocent civilians, but members of IPOB a proscribed terrorist organization under Nigerian law. They attacked the army with dangerous weapons in a bid to prevent the army from carrying out a legitimate internal security operation. Let's see how it turns out
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by zionmade1: 2:49pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
Not in a thousand lifetimes. Some of you are ignorant as to how the ICC works. The preliminarily investigation the ICC intends to carry out is to see whether there was a direct order given to willfully kill civilians, and if it is established that there was, next would be to determine if the Nigeria's legal system is incapable of addressing the abuses. We all know that the miscreants who got shot in Aba were not innocent civilians, but members of IPOB a proscribed terrorist organization under Nigerian law. They attacked the army with dangerous weapons in a bid to prevent the army from carrying out a legitimate internal security operation. Let's see how it turns out
sharrap there
Wat do u mean they were not innocent?
what did they do?
who did they kill?
what happened to arresting and prosecuting them?
did army find them with weapons?
if that guy that opened his shop on a normal morning to sell his goods but was shot while sitting in front of his shop was innocent, then may death visit u in that manner, then we will analyze if u were innocent or not


I guess there is no need for all this. The number of people that were killed in abia are not even up to half of the people that supported the wickedness who are dying in their numbers in both the north and the other side of the south. one thing I know if boko haram.don't help us retaliate, Fulani herdsmen will do the job
the evil that men do must surely come after them

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 2:55pm On Mar 26, 2018
zionmade1:

sharrap there
Wat do u mean they were not innocent?
what did they do?
who did they kill
?
what happened to arresting and prosecuting them?
did army find them with weapons?
if that guy that opened his shop on a normal morning to sell his goods but was shot while sitting in front of his shop was innocent, then may death visit u in that manner, then we will analyze if u were innocent or not


I guess there is no need for all this. The number of people that were killed in abia are not even up to half of the people that supported the wickedness who are dying in their numbers in both the north and the other side of the south. one thing I know if boko haram.don't help us retaliate, Fulani herdsmen will do the job
the evil that men do must surely come after them
When you try to prevent a law enforcement agent from performing his lawful duties you cannot be said to be innocent. This is exactly what those Aba boys did. The ICC investigators will establish this and throwout the case to the dustbin

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by zionmade1: 3:01pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
When you try to prevent a law enforcement agent from performing his lawful duties you cannot be said to be innocent. This is exactly what those Aba boys did. The ICC investigators will establish this and throwout the case to the dustbin
SHARRAP!
so the guy sitting in front of his shop looking for his daily bread was preventing the army from doing their duties abi? U were very far from Aba and u already know Wat happened.
let me break it down for u in case the same death visit u
the army started shooting sporadically in the night in Aba, up till morning, they came openly at a major junction to shoot people at sight. People who never knew Wat was happening in umuahia where kanu resides. Tell me exactly Wat the victims in Aba did. Don't worry Nigeria have not started experiencing bloodshed it will still happen. U can't kill innocent people like that and go Scot free

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by highqueen(f): 3:03pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
When you try to prevent a law enforcement agent from performing his lawful duties you cannot be said to be innocent. This is exactly what those Aba boys did. The ICC investigators will establish this and throwout the case to the dustbin
all these gworo chewing abokkis

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Ngokafor(f): 3:07pm On Mar 26, 2018
Good Development...The day of reckoning for these fulani terrorists be they herdsmen ,in Government or in the Army is drawing near....Buhari and Buratai will never get away with their atrocities against IPOB members,no matter how long it takes.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 3:13pm On Mar 26, 2018
zionmade1:

SHARRAP!
so the guy sitting in front of his shop looking for his daily bread was preventing the army from doing their duties abi? U were very far from Aba and u already know Wat happened.
let me break it down for u in case the same death visit u
the army started shooting sporadically in the night in Aba, up till morning, they came openly at a major junction to shoot people at sight. People who never knew Wat was happening in umuahia where kanu resides. Tell me exactly Wat the victims in Aba did. Don't worry Nigeria have not started experiencing bloodshed it will still happen. U can't kill innocent people like that and go Scot free
Calm down and think straight. I don't believe the army were given any direct orders to kill innocent bystanders. If indeed there were some civilians harmed as a result of the exchanges, then it is highly regretted and needs to be addressed. However as for those IPOB miscreants who confronted the army at Kanu's house, it would be fair to say they got what they deserved

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 3:15pm On Mar 26, 2018
highqueen:

all these gworo chewing abokkis
I don't think you belong in the politics section, isn't there some thread in romance needing your attention? Eh inyamiri girl?
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by conehead2018: 3:17pm On Mar 26, 2018
zionmade1:

sharrap there
Wat do u mean they were not innocent?
what did they do?
who did they kill?
what happened to arresting and prosecuting them?
did army find them with weapons?
if that guy that opened his shop on a normal morning to sell his goods but was shot while sitting in front of his shop was innocent, then may death visit u in that manner, then we will analyze if u were innocent or not


I guess there is no need for all this. The number of people that were killed in abia are not even up to half of the people that supported the wickedness who are dying in their numbers in both the north and the other side of the south. one thing I know if boko haram.don't help us retaliate, Fulani herdsmen will do the job
the evil that men do must surely come after them
please stop replying the Fulani slave who his chains are now interwoven with his D.N.A......He will not be there when buhari will spend the rest of his miserable life in the Hague.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by plessis: 3:21pm On Mar 26, 2018
midolian:
A thread to masturbate on by the naturally bitter ones..

Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by zionmade1: 3:21pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
Calm down and think straight. I don't believe the army were given any direct orders to kill innocent bystanders. If indeed there were some civilians harmed as a result of the exchanges, then it is highly regretted and needs to be addressed. However as for those IPOB miscreants who confronted the army at Kanu's house, it would be fair to say they got what they deserved
always try to check for say anything
my good friend was trapped in an uncompleted building for over 12hrs. a guy was shot down close to the building he was in, assuming he was the one, people like u will open mouth and say he was ipob. Neva mind the blood of those innocent people will keep crying and for those soldiers who are northerners, the peace that has left that region for some years now will never return there. The northerners will reap their wickedness to the very end of it.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by conehead2018: 3:25pm On Mar 26, 2018
doublewisdom:
Buhari will likely die in jail.
This is a welcome development and the likes of buratai,the governors of IMO,abia,rivers,and anambara should be joined in the suit to clear there innocences.
The beauty of this is that there is enough incriminating evidence against Nigeria which will indicte her and the judgement used for reference on. the future debate on Biafra.
I expect the middle belt,the ogonis and every other aggrieved sections of Nigeria to follow suit with there evidence and let's see why and how buhari and his co demons not cool off in jail.
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 3:31pm On Mar 26, 2018
zionmade1:

always try to check for say anything
my good friend was trapped in an uncompleted building for over 12hrs. a guy was shot down close to the building he was in, assuming he was the one, people like u will open mouth and say he was ipob. Neva mind the blood of those innocent people will keep crying and for those soldiers who are northerners, the peace that has left that region for some years now will never return there. The northerners will reap their wickedness to the very end of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with 'northern wickedness' it is Nigerian state policy to crush groups like IPOB and boko haram that poise a threat to the security of the country. Also what your friend went through is regrettable, but the right people to blame are IPOB who started the confrontation in the first place

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by CAPSLOCKED: 4:17pm On Mar 26, 2018
escodotman:
Harmless and defenseless IPOB branded ''terrorists'' and quickly attacked by Buhari...whereas, his brothers-arms Miyetti Allah boasted of genocide in the middle belt and duely carried out and still carrying out their threats, killing people on a daily basis were not branded terrorists in Nigeria despite the international community branding them as the 4th most deadly group in the world just behind boko haram and ISIS. Buhari should also be investigated.




WASTE OF TIME.
AFTER THE INVESTIGATIONS NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

ICC WILL NOT ERASE THIS MESS CALLED APC.
BUT OUR PVC'S WILL.

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Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by zionmade1: 4:37pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
This has absolutely nothing to do with 'northern wickedness' it is Nigerian state policy to crush groups like IPOB and boko haram that poise a threat to the security of the country. Also what your friend went through is regrettable, but the right people to blame are IPOB who started the confrontation in the first place
yeah I will blame ipob because the Hausa soldiers don't have any training and are full of hatred. u guys should always try making urself happy by using the phrase "boko haram and ipob" Wat I know boko haram is a sure payback for all the atrocities the north has committed. 50 yrs ahead the war winners are now refugees in their own land
as for threat to security, u guys will forever keep enjoying the security-friendly herdsmen
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by SakuraSimiola: 7:25pm On Mar 26, 2018
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Lipscomb(m): 7:55pm On Mar 26, 2018
Breaking ko dab ni wonder what ICC goanna do even if Nigeria government found guilty.
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by kanubiafra: 8:20am On Mar 27, 2018
NOW THIS IS GETTING MORE SERIOUS EVERYDAY
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by kanubiafra: 8:28am On Mar 27, 2018
GoroTango:
Not in a thousand lifetimes. Some of you are ignorant as to how the ICC works. The preliminarily investigation the ICC intends to carry out is to see whether there was a direct order given to willfully kill civilians, and if it is established that there was, next would be to determine if the Nigeria's legal system is incapable of addressing the abuses. We all know that the miscreants who got shot in Aba were not innocent civilians, but members of IPOB a proscribed terrorist organization under Nigerian law. They attacked the army with dangerous weapons in a bid to prevent the army from carrying out a legitimate internal security operation. Let's see how it turns out
GUY THAT ATTACK WAS DONE BEFORE THAT ILLEGAL TERRORIST TAG. WHICH WAS EQUALY CONDEMED BY THE WHOLE WORLD. LAST TIME I CHECK BUHARI COMMANDS THE ARMY IN NIGERIA AND THERE WAS THIS ORDER TO CRUSH IPOB BY HIM. WHICH MADE KANU TO SAY BUHARI SHOULD NOT TRY TO DEFEAT HIM BY FORCE OF ARMS BUT BY ARGUEMENT
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by AustineE1: 9:22am On Mar 27, 2018
No matter how long it takes,nobody can stop an idea who's time has come,either you change by it or the wind of change will carry you into irrelevancy.....God bless the Land of the rising sun,it must set forth at dawn!
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by kanubiafra: 12:37pm On Mar 27, 2018
GoroTango:
This has absolutely nothing to do with 'northern wickedness' it is Nigerian state policy to crush groups like IPOB and boko haram that poise a threat to the security of the country. Also what your friend went through is regrettable, but the right people to blame are IPOB who started the confrontation in the first place
TO CRUSH YOUR OWN CITIZENS IS A CRIME MY BOY ITS AGAINST THE UN POLICY ON HUMAN RIGHTS. UNSC. THE EU ITS AGAINST THE STATUTES OF ROME ITS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AGAINST DUE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT TO SHOOT AN ARMED MAN WHO HAS DROPPED HIS WEAPONS NOT TO TALK OF AN UNARMED ONE. FURTHERMORE ITS EVEN A CRIME TO ATTACK A MAN FROM BEHIND EVEN WHEN HE IS ARMED. BUT FOOTAGE SHOWS NIGERIAN ARMY SHOOT IPOB WHILE THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY IN ABA. THE ICC CAME IN COS THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION BY NIGERIAN IN THE FIRST PLACE. NIGERIA IS IN TROUBLE NOW WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD ONLY DIPLOMACY CAN TAKE NIGERIA OUT OF THE MESS BUHARI PUT HER IN
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by kanubiafra: 12:48pm On Mar 27, 2018
GoroTango:
When you try to prevent a law enforcement agent from performing his lawful duties you cannot be said to be innocent. This is exactly what those Aba boys did. The ICC investigators will establish this and throwout the case to the dustbin
WHEN DOES KILLING OF UNARMED CIVILIAN BECOME LAWFUL DUTY? BEFORE YOU SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE THE AMNESTY REPORT WILL BE USED AGAINST NIGERIA THE AU FINDINGS WILL BE THERE THE CASE AT ECOWAS COURT IS STILL THERE AND WILL BE LOOKED INTO. THE EU HAS INTEREST IN THIS CASE. THE US COLUMBIA COURT WILL ALSO BE LOOKED INTO NIGERIA CAN ONLY RUN BUT CAN'T HIDE. AND LEST I FORGET US PRESIDENT HAS AN AXE TO GRIND WITH BUHARI OVER PH KILLINGS ON 20TH JANUARY 2016 ADD TO THE FACT THAT NIGERIA VOTED AGAINST US IN UNGA OVER JERUSALEM
Re: Breaking news:Operation Python Dance: ICC to investigate killings of IPOB member by Nobody: 12:54pm On Mar 27, 2018
kanubiafra:
WHEN DOES KILLING OF UNARMED CIVILIAN BECOME LAWFUL DUTY? BEFORE YOU SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE THE AMNESTY REPORT WILL BE USED AGAINST NIGERIA THE AU FINDINGS WILL BE THERE THE CASE AT ECOWAS COURT IS STILL THERE AND WILL BE LOOKED INTO. THE EU HAS INTEREST IN THIS CASE. THE US COLUMBIA COURT WILL ALSO BE LOOKED INTO NIGERIA CAN ONLY RUN BUT CAN'T HIDE. AND LEST I FORGET US PRESIDENT HAS AN AXE TO GRIND WITH BUHARI OVER PH KILLINGS ON 20TH JANUARY 2016 ADD TO THE FACT THAT NIGERIA VOTED AGAINST US IN UNGA OVER JERUSALEM
Until you learn how to type in lower case letters just like everyone else, I will never read a single word of what you have to say. Bye

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