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Un Warns Of Crimes Against Humanity by labamo07(m): 3:49pm On Jan 12, 2012 |
Geneva - Members of Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram could be guilty of crimes against humanity if they carried out systematic attacks on religious targets, the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned on Thursday. "Members of Boko Haram and other groups and entities, if judged to have committed widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population - including on grounds such as religion or ethnicity - could be found guilty of crimes against humanity," said a statement from Pillay. Any "deliberate acts leading to population cleansing on grounds of religion or ethnicity would also amount to a crime against humanity", added the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Recent religious violence, most of it blamed on Boko Haram, has sparked fears of a wider religious conflict and even civil war in a country roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south. Pillay stressed that there "must be no impunity for any acts of violence, including those committed in retaliation for earlier attacks". She also urged the government to speak out against the violence, saying that Nigerian leaders must "avoid falling into the trap of calling for, or sanctioning, retaliation or making other provocative statements”. "It is essential that the country's leadership, and especially its Muslim and Christian leaders, join forces to unequivocally condemn all violence, including retaliation, and encourage their followers to identify and help arrest all those involved in killings and other acts of violence that have been taking place," she added. |
Re: Un Warns Of Crimes Against Humanity by AfroBlue(m): 4:06pm On Jan 12, 2012 |
Where was the U.N.'s voice when Black Africans were being slaughtered in Libya last year? Black Libya City Said to Fall to Rebel Siege [img]http://www.uruknet.info/pic.php?f=17libyan-rebels-guard-black-libyans-.jpg[/img] Western-backed rebels have made good their vow to "purge slaves, black skin," with their reported capture of Tawurgha, a black Libyan city, after a long siege. Elsewhere, just 30 miles from the capital city of Tripoli, NATO bombed 85 civilians to oblivion. Facing a September 27 United Nations deadline on its "humanitarian" mission, "NATO has resorted to terror bombing to clear the way for the rebel advance." "President Obama has, in effect, been arming a racist lynch mob and calling them freedom fighters." The mostly black town of Tawurgha has fallen to NATO-backed rebels after a long siege, according to al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based media mouthpiece for the rebels. It is an event only racists could celebrate, a triumph of hate and Euro-American arms and money over an enclave of dark-skinned Libyans descended from Africans once sold in the town’s slave market. As the Wall Street Journal reported on June 21, the road to Tawurgha (sometimes spelled Ta-wer-gha), 25 miles from the port of Misurata, is punctuated by rebel graffiti vowing to "purge slaves, black skin." Previously, Benghazi-based rebels methodically cleansed Misurata’s black neighborhoods, warning residents never to return to their jobs or classrooms. Rebels claimed Tawurgha’s defenders used civilians as "human shields" during the final assault – the stock phrase deployed to justify massacres of non-combatants. President Obama has, in effect, been arming a racist lynch mob and calling them freedom fighters. Government forces earlier claimed to have recaptured Misurata, itself, along with other battlefield victories, reports that are mirrored by rebel boasts of progress in encircling the capital city, Tripoli, and its 1.5 million people. The pace of military activity has quickened, dramatically, with the September 27 expiration of the Euro-American "mandate" in Libya approaching. NATO has stepped up bombing of pro-government towns along a wide front, throwing every available unit of feuding rebel forces into the fray in hopes of achieving regime change before the deadline. Rebels claims to have captured the town of Brega are in dispute. According to the rebel high command, the oil port was once defended by a brigade of "Chadian" soldiers – another "black African" threat that Amnesty International and other outside observers found to be totally fictional. The rebellion appears to run on Africanophobia. |
Re: Un Warns Of Crimes Against Humanity by hollandis(f): 4:09pm On Jan 12, 2012 |
May God punish UN,were they not the ones encouraging weakjonathan all along,and like u rightly said 'the black community that was massacred by libyans why didn't UN mention it |
Re: Un Warns Of Crimes Against Humanity by AfroBlue(m): 4:13pm On Jan 12, 2012 |
kcuF the UN Remnants of Libyan city of Sirte bombed by NATO warplanes / PHOTO |
Re: Un Warns Of Crimes Against Humanity by labamo07(m): 4:41pm On Jan 12, 2012 |
They secretely initiate mayhems by financing opposition party against the present government, thus they will use their multimedia platform to broadcast it, They will eventually roar to the world to save humanity from terrors |
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