11,000 Christians killed, 13,000 churches and 1,500 Christian schools destroyed

2.6 million Christians internally displaced, 1.3 million forced to flee

United State based lawyer, Bruce Fein, and his partner W. Bruce DelValle say they are in pos- session of enough evidence of alleged mind-boggling atrocities committed by the Nigerian government against the Igbos, days after their trip to Nigeria during which they gathered evidence in connection with the suit lodged by 10 pro-Biafra activists.

“We are convinced that Nigeria is the most dangerous country in the world for Christians. They routinely defile the sanctity of churches by killing children hiding their tiny bodies in pews. In violation of Nigeria’s professed secular constitution, Nigeria has joined the Organization of Islamic Unity (sic) and twelve northern states have adopted sharia law”, they alleged.

Orient Daily gathers that the two senior lawyers who interviewed their clients and other witnesses during their trip to Enugu are already talking tough, expressing confidence of victory in their legal battle against some indicted Nigerian state actors including governors of Abia and Anambra states, Okezie Ikpeazu and Willie Obiano.

The legal experts disclosed this in a statement they issued in Washington, D.C. over the weekend after their fact-find- ing mission to Nigeria August 19 - 24, 2017. The mission was in respect of the Torture Vic- tims Protection Act (TVPA) lawsuit they filed in the United States District Court on behalf of their 10 anonymous plaintiffs against sixteen (16) individual defendants for alleged extraju- dicial killings and torture per- petrated under Nigerian law and motived by the Igbo eth- nicity, Christian faith, and polit- ical viewpoints of the victims.

The case is filed under the registration name of John Doe, et al v. Turkur Yusuf Buratai, et al, Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-0133.

The statement read in parts: “Plaintiffs are seeking compensatory and punitive damages to secure justice for the Igbo people, to give them hope for the future, and to deter genocide, ethnic cleansing or the extermination of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamic Hausa-Fulani terrorists in Northern Nigeria.

According to the lawyers, the Christian Open Door Report of 2015 found that Boko Harem, the northeast Islamic terrorist organisation, had killed 11,000 Christians, destroyed 13,000 churches and 1,500 Christian schools; had created 2.6 million internally displaced persons, and forced 1.3 million Chris- tians to flee.

“On July 11, 2017”, the statement said that a northern “(Arewa) Youth Consultative Forum (ACYF) issued an odious, chilling and genocidal threat to plunder the proper- ties and evict, by force and violence, eleven (11) million Igbo peacefully residing in Northern Nigeria if they do not vacate the region by October 1, 2017. The Government of Nigeria and nineteen northern states have tacitly endorsed the ACYF threatened genocide of twice the number who was exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust! The federal and state governments in northern Nigeria have refused to arrest even a single ACYF member.

“In our Buratai suit, the District Court issued an order granting the plaintiff’s motion to proceed anonymously because they reasonably feared lethal retaliation against them- selves or families if their identities were known.

“The actions of the defendants were crimes against humanity that can be prosecuted in any jurisdiction in the world. Indeed, the Convention Against Torture mandates that signatory nations like the United States and Nige- ria prosecute the crimes of tor- ture or extrajudicial killings.

“Fourteen of the individual defendants are federal officials and two are state governors in the Southeast. One of the two, governors, Willie Obiano of Anambra state has already apologised for the brutal killings of plaintiffs that he admits were perpetrated under his aegis. The other defendant governor is Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state.

“The defendants have yet to answer. Several are in default for failure to respond within 21 days of the service of the sum- mons and complaint. We are optimistic about our chances of victory at trial or earlier.

“Defendants are represented by a small Nigerian law firm in California thousands of miles from the venue of the litigation in the District of Columbia. The defendants’ representative law firm said they have been con- tacted by the government of Nigeria, not by the individual defendants.

“We salute the courage of our ten anonymous plaintiffs and their brave supporters throughout Igboland. We are unified in our insistence on obtaining justice for the Igbo people through peaceful and lawful means that disavow the lawless savagery of their persecutors. They should tremble when they reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.”

source: https://orientdailynews.com/nigeria-most-dangerous-country-forchristians-us-lawyers/
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