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Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by AnonymousIP: 9:23am On Mar 26, 2018
@VIVIANGIST

Read a letter sent to me ... How true ..??


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.”

by VIVIANGIST - https://viviangist.com/news/operation-python-dance-icc-investigate-killings-ipob-members/

cc - Lalasticlala

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by highqueen(f): 9:25am On Mar 26, 2018
zoogeria in troublegrin

lalasticlala.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by doublewisdom: 9:25am On Mar 26, 2018
IPOB is smarter than Buhari. He allowed his hatred for SS and SE cloud his reasoning while his ass guzzlers cheered him on.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by dunkem21(m): 9:33am On Mar 26, 2018
I have repeatedly said that the blood of those innocent people murdered coldly will cry for vengeance on the land.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by eagleeye2: 9:36am On Mar 26, 2018
What I read there is "analysis of this nature will take time".
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by chichar1(f): 9:37am On Mar 26, 2018
ICC is too slow,what is taking their time, as for buhari, he must go the way of Liberia ex leader, Charles Taylor

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by kcjazzy: 9:37am On Mar 26, 2018
Bihari the coin is now rolling back, under no circumstances will you get away with killing

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by magoo10(m): 9:45am On Mar 26, 2018
Buhari sent soldiers to shoot live bullets at peaceful protesters while he continues to pamper and rob the palms of terrorist herdsmen and boko haram criminals. The world will surely see the truth as no evil can be hidden under the Sun.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by saaron(m): 9:51am On Mar 26, 2018
All participants of Python dance will soon dance and face the music for their actions starting from terrorist buhari.
No peace for the wicked!

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by coluka: 9:52am On Mar 26, 2018
The Nigerian government must be made to pay for the injustice they did against IPOB and The Shi'ites. How can a supposed national army turn itself into a Hausa Fulani militia? God will punish both Buhari and all those involved in the shedding of the blood of innocent and unarmed IPOB members and Shiites. May God also punish all those who stayed in their homes or hid behind their keyboards to support this act of wickedness and barbarity. The same way tears were brought to the eyes of the families of those killed, Tragedy and tears will also be brought to their own lives. AMEN

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by yarimo(m): 9:55am On Mar 26, 2018
Mtcheeew when will ICC investigate GEORGE BUSH former president of America over the killings in IRAQ? Nonsense undecided embarassed
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by CSTR2: 10:00am On Mar 26, 2018
yarimo:
Mtcheeew when will ICC investigate GEORGE BUSH former president of America over the killings in IRAQ? Nonsense undecided embarassed
Iraqis are not citizens of America.

You are not ashamed for comparing a president killing hostile foreigners in a foreign war zone to another killing his own citizens in his own country because they disagree with him.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by yarimo(m): 10:07am On Mar 26, 2018
CSTR2:

Iraqis are not citizens of America.

You are not ashamed for comparing a president killing hostile foreigners in a foreign war zone to another killing his own citizens in his own country because they disagree with him.
and people in IRAQ are not human being?
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by CSTR2: 10:14am On Mar 26, 2018
yarimo:
and people in IRAQ are not human being?
It is a war zone in a foreign country.

Bush can not dare in America what he did in Iraq .

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by gidgiddy: 10:22am On Mar 26, 2018
Buhari and Burutai will one day pay dearly for the act of terrorism they perpetrated in Igbo land in the name of Python dance

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Omololu2121: 12:15pm On Mar 26, 2018
yarimo:
Mtcheeew when will ICC investigate GEORGE BUSH former president of America over the killings in IRAQ? Nonsense undecided embarassed
buhari really messed up with the way he handle the iPod issue,what's stopping him from crushing Fulani herdsmen terrorist the way he crushed iPod members,he is a stupid bigot.


This is one of the reason I hope this country collapse someday

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by xcolanto(m): 12:19pm On Mar 26, 2018
Good news!

Justice must prevail!

Although the arm of the law seems short, it is long enough to catch up with prepatrators of evil and unlawful activities that contradict the principles of human right, freedom of association and religion.

The buhari led administration must be made to pay for the wastage of lives by the army on innocent shitte and IPOB members.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by kernel505: 12:20pm On Mar 26, 2018
yarimo:
Mtcheeew when will ICC investigate GEORGE BUSH former president of America over the killings in IRAQ? Nonsense undecided embarassed


Son of a terroyrist, backward clan.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by plessis: 1:51pm On Mar 26, 2018
Why has this thread not hit the front page?

yarimo:
Mtcheeew when will ICC investigate GEORGE BUSH former president of America over the killings in IRAQ? Nonsense undecided embarassed

Headslammer grin

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Nobody: 1:53pm On Mar 26, 2018
Let them investigate all they like and it still wont bring about the coming of Biafra. Kanu ordered his boys to attack the army with dangerous weapons and so the army acted in self defense case closed.
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Nobody: 2:02pm On Mar 26, 2018
gidgiddy:
Buhari and Burutai will one day pay dearly for the act of terrorism they perpetrated in Igbo land in the name of Python dance
Oga quit fooling yourself. The case is going nowhere. It is an uphill task trying to prove an allegation of crimes against humanity, also there was never any direct order given to the military to deliberately attack civilians. The IPOB miscreants who got shot that day attacked the army with dangerous weapons in a bid to prevent them from carrying out a legitimate internal security operation
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Ikechuob: 3:12pm On Mar 26, 2018
plessis:
Why has this thread not hit the front page?

So you aren't aware that APC bought off Seun and his miscreants. Have you not noticed that all mods on this forum are Apc erats or apologist.

They'll try as much as they can to hide this fact from the public. As if hiding it will somehow stop ICC investigation.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Ikechuob: 3:15pm On Mar 26, 2018
I knew when that Igbo man became the president of icc that this was coming. No real igbo excluding the greedy animals pretending to be Igbo leaders in that shithole, will look past that and not want to lock up every bastard involved. I hope they include igbo governors and ohaneze in it as well. They are just as guilty in my opinions

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by plessis: 3:18pm On Mar 26, 2018
Ikechuob:


So you aren't aware that APC bought off Seun and his miscreants. Have you not noticed that all mods on this forum are Apc erats or apologist.

They'll try as much as they can to hide this fact from the public. As if hiding it will somehow stop ICC investigation.
I wonder why people sell their souls for just a pot of porridge.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by xcolanto(m): 3:49pm On Mar 26, 2018
Ikechuob:


So you aren't aware that APC bought off Seun and his miscreants. Have you not noticed that all mods on this forum are Apc erats or apologist.

They'll try as much as they can to hide this fact from the public. As if hiding it will somehow stop ICC investigation.


My guy the thing tire person o!

Biased religious and political mods all around the forum..

Funny enough they hide under alternate monkiers to accomplish their religious fanaticism and political ass licking!

Its so open that even the blind can see because they don't bother to hide it again.

Am sure this deal was struck from the lie Mohammed section of the government as most of the mods are confirmed BMC members that earn 39k based on their ability to silence opposition at the snap of a finger or a click of the report button.

We are watching you seun!
The way your mods are sectional, tribal and pro government is not the best for a business like this.

The end shall not justify the means in this case.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by gidgiddy: 3:53pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
Oga quit fooling yourself. The case is going nowhere. It is an uphill task trying to prove an allegation of crimes against humanity, also there was never any direct order given to the military to deliberately attack civilians. The IPOB miscreants who got shot that day attacked the army with dangerous weapons in a bid to prevent them from carrying out a legitimate internal security operation

The Army has no legitimate operation in an area where there is no armed conflict or violence. Anyone who sends armed Soldiers to an area where there is no armed group has already broken the rules of engagement. I dont know anywhere in the SE that there was armed conflict.

Secondly, everyone heard the unbelivable story of the Army that they were peacefully passing and unarmed IPOB decided to block their way and attack them with sticks and stones. So a group of Soldiers, armed to the teeth with guns and tanks, were passing by peacefuly and unarmed IPOB decided to attack them? This sort of crazy story deserves an award.

Burutai is going down, may be not right now but he is drfinitely going down

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by nwabobo: 3:55pm On Mar 26, 2018
AnonymousIP:
@VIVIANGIST

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.”

by VIVIANGIST - https://viviangist.com/news/operation-python-dance-icc-investigate-killings-ipob-members/

cc - Lalasticlala

Buratai will definitely share a room with Charles Taylor.

NB: An Igbo man is the president of ICC.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Nobody: 3:56pm On Mar 26, 2018
gidgiddy:


The Army has no legitimate operation in an area where there is no armed conflict or violence. Anyone who sends armed Soldiers to an area where there is no armed group has already broken the rules of engagement. I dont know anywhere in the SE that there was armed conflict.

Secondly, everyone heard the unbelivable story of the Army that they were peacefully passing and unarmed IPOB decided to block their way and attack them with sticks and stones. So a group of Soldiers, armed to the teeth with guns and tanks, were passing by peacefuly and unarmed IPOB decided to attack them? This sort of crazy story deserves an award.

Burutai is going down, may be not right now but he is drfinitely going down
It seems you are ignorant of the laws that regulate the deployment of the army for internal security operations. Go and learn before you and I can even begin to discuss this matter. Yes IPOB tried to prevent the deployment of troops and that's what brought about the confrontation
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by unohbethel(m): 4:27pm On Mar 26, 2018
GoroTango:
It seems you are ignorant of the laws that regulate the deployment of the army for internal security operations. Go and learn before you and I can even begin to discuss this matter. Yes IPOB tried to prevent the deployment of troops and that's what brought about the confrontation
i wud av joined this discussion but the person i am quotin is an irredeemable zombie! cos on matter wat u reason with him, the tot of 30k monthly will not allow sense to enter.

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Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by Nobody: 4:40pm On Mar 26, 2018
unohbethel:
i wud av joined this discussion but the person i am quotin is an irredeemable zombie! cos on matter wat u reason with him, the tot of 30k monthly will not allow sense to enter.
Call me whatever name you like it dosent move me. The fact of the matter is that IPOB started the confrontation with the army that got them killed during the operation python dance. The ICC investigators can easily establish that
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by CrtlAltDel: 4:43pm On Mar 26, 2018
Nigeria will take ICC serious when they investigate Putin & Assad or US for invasion of Libya and Iraq(birth of ISIS) grin grin grin
[img]https://politicsofjustice.files./2012/02/world-justice-icc.jpg[/img]
Re: Operation Python Dance: ICC To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members by CrtlAltDel: 4:43pm On Mar 26, 2018
grin

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