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BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by EasternWind: 9:22am On Jun 11, 2017 |
BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial Killing Of Biafrans By Okechukwu Nwokoye | Sub Editor - June 10, 2017 The United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered an order on June 2, 2017 authorizing ten (10) Biafran Plaintiffs to sue fourteen Nigerian Defendants for complicity in the 2016 torture and extrajudicial killings under color of Nigerian law to retaliate for peaceful Biafran protests against ethnic or religious oppression. The next step in the litigation is to serve the Torture Victims Protection Act and Alien Tort Claims Act Complaint on the Nigerian Defendants. The Biafran Plaintiffs are seeking millions of dollars of damages to compensate for their grievous losses and suffering. The case name is John Doe, et al v. Tukur Yusuf Buratai et al, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-01033. It has been assigned to United States District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton. The District Court’s Order noted: “Each Nigerian Defendant allegedly committed crimes against humanity and, as regards each of the Decedents, extrajudicial killings actionable under the Alien Torts Act and Torture Victims Protection Act. The Complaint alleges that Defendants’ sole or substantial motivating force behind the extrajudicial murders and torture…was the ethnicity, religious and political beliefs of the victims which match those of each Plaintiff, i.e., Igbo ethnicity, Christian faith, and support of Biafran independence through peaceful means.” The District Court added that the “Plaintiffs’ allege that identifying Plaintiff’s or Decedent’s would expose them, their families, and relatives to an intolerable risk of death or serious bodily injury at the hands of Defendants or the Government of Nigeria.” Attorney Bruce Fein, of Fein & DelValle PLLC, who represents the plaintiffs with his partner W. Bruce DelValle, explained: “This landmark lawsuit is about justice and the rule of law coming to rescue Igbos, Biafrans and their political supporters who are persecuted because of their Christian religion, their ethnicity and their political viewpoints since Nigeria’s independence from its colonial master Great Britain in October 1960. “Nigeria’s decolonization violated the1960 United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Paragraph 2 declares, ’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.’ “Great Britain never allowed Biafrans to ‘freely determine their political status‘through a plebiscite or otherwise. “That stands in stark contrast to the self-determination vote Great Britain afforded the Scots in 2014. Biafrans are decidedly more distinct from other Nigerians in matters of democratic culture, history, religion, language and ethnicity than the Scots are from the English. “The time to remedy the flagrant decolonization injustice to Biafrans through peaceful means is long overdue,” Mr. Fein said. http://www.thetrentonline.com/buratai-slammed-biafran-protestors/? |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by Nobody: 9:24am On Jun 11, 2017 |
Biafuro sun sha wuya |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by STFUand4kMeHARD(m): 9:27am On Jun 11, 2017 |
xstry:Prepare yourself for the inevitable ... the hour is almost here. Be ready to shed blood since you hate us so much 3 Likes |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by Nobody: 9:31am On Jun 11, 2017 |
STFUand4kMeHARD:chest beater 2 Likes |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by okenwa(m): 9:32am On Jun 11, 2017 |
The Queen of England has been in power all these years from independence and she is still alive. It is high time she speak on all these contemporary issues as a colonial Master of Nigeria. Great Britain should be involved in this case of separation. Nigeria is due to be divided into 3 regional entity known as Oduduwa Republic, Arewa Republic and Republic of Biafra. The easiest way to life in Nigeria 1 Like |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by STFUand4kMeHARD(m): 9:34am On Jun 11, 2017 |
xstry:Chest owner ... just be prepared to fight, not with key board this time but with your life 2 Likes |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by carzola(m): 9:55am On Jun 11, 2017 |
okenwa:you forgot the niger delta republic.. Cause the last time I checked.. Ojukwu and igbos didn't treat non Igbo biafrans well |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by chemicalDisease: 10:00am On Jun 11, 2017 |
Winter is coming. |
Re: BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over Extra-judicial by YorubaMod(m): 10:10am On Jun 11, 2017 |
Buratai you never see anything, be ready to sell ur properties because after this court, you will be heading to another one in Germany .. |
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