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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Nobody: 4:06pm On Jun 12, 2017
DanseMacabre:
But I don't understand. Will he be repatriated to face trial, or will the trial be in absentia?

And if he's found guilty, will he be repatriated to serve punishment, or will it be here in Nigeria?
This one is a civil case, meaning if found guilty he will only pay damages. It is ICC that sends people it convicts like Charles Taylor, Milosevic, and others to jail.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Alariwo2: 4:06pm On Jun 12, 2017
See them.. mumu people spilling trash on the thread

Buratai can kill as many terrorists as he likes.. It's his constitutional duty. The day these Biafrans understand that their movement is unlawful is when their eyes will clear

BTW US will have to defend her military action in Syria and other war torn countries first before they can query our armed forces and their actions.
Nonsense!

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by akpamuomenka: 4:08pm On Jun 12, 2017
NLandIsHypocrit:
This time it won't be business as usual, already there's enough evidence on ground so is not the question of I didn't do it, or I'm not aware. Buratai thought he would have been the super hero the moment he kills innocent, armless and law abiding IPOB members for hate and frivolous reasons. We hope that Justice will surely prevail because those killed are more humans than their killers. Even Justice fails to come through this Chanel, one thing is undisputable, all those who participated in the killings of innocent IPOB members either directly or indirectly must surely pay a heavy price, anyone of them who escaped the physical nets will never escape the spiritual nets.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by yaki84: 4:09pm On Jun 12, 2017
Tkester:


Maybe they forgot their juju when ICJ ruled in favour of Cameroon over Bakassi peninsula

best reply of the year.


Seunmsg give this bobo small bottle of orijin.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by bobowaja(m): 4:09pm On Jun 12, 2017
abbey621:
These monkeys are always embarrassing themselves! No U.S court has jurisdiction over matters such as these as long as it did not happen on U.S soil and does not involve U.S citizens, I could understand International Criminal Court but a U.S district court, pathetic!

Just so funny, I don't know how some people will still believe this even in this 21st century. Or how can a sovereign society dictate to another sovereign society how to make their government. The best the US can do if at all they want to get involve with this is to manipulate the international bodies like UN, ICC and ICJ not some courts that is not even popular in their country.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by amdoyin82(m): 4:09pm On Jun 12, 2017
Homeboiy:
let me soak my chaplet in hot water


I pray buratai goes down
Burutai will not go down. He only did is job.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by bauer36(m): 4:10pm On Jun 12, 2017
education is power

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by DanseMacabre(m): 4:11pm On Jun 12, 2017
fineboynl:
the united state can declared him wanted. that means if Nigeria refuse to hand over him to the USA Nigeria will face problem with international relationship. and he will not be able to travel out to any country outside Nigeria if he is wanted. the charges if documentation is valid is international crimes.


That's any country that maintains diplomatic ties with the USA. Thanks for the enlightenment.

*Modified* But on second thought, the crime wasn't commited in the US, so do they still have any locus standi?

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by ernieboy(m): 4:11pm On Jun 12, 2017
fineboynl:
the united state can declared him wanted. that means if Nigeria refuse to hand over him to the USA Nigeria will face problem with international relationship. and he will not be able to travel out to any country outside Nigeria if he is wanted. the charges if documentation is valid is international crimes.
u people should shut up. Nigeria is a sovereign state not under the jurisdiction of another state. this is just the futile effort of a desperate and dying campaign.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by bobowaja(m): 4:12pm On Jun 12, 2017
Hizzy:

but the court accepted to handle the case so what ar u sayin

That doesn't mean they can handle it. I just the reason the kind weed that judge that approved it smoked........ It will be good for prescription.
Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by TheKingdom: 4:12pm On Jun 12, 2017
Alariwo2:
See them.. mumu people spilling trash on the thread

Buratai can kill as many terrorists as he likes.. It's his constitutional duty. The day these Biafrans understand that their movement is unlawful is when their eyes will clear

BTW US will have to defend her military action in Syria and other war torn countries first before they can query our armed forces and their actions.
Nonsense!

I guess they can start with you, yes, you may be the terrorist that is.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by PastorAji(m): 4:12pm On Jun 12, 2017
Buratai can't be tried in the US
highest is extradiction order
Tkester:



Bro don't swear on it. The international recognition is mind boggling. What IPoB is doing is a modern way of freedom fighting. Imagine if the court finds brutai guilty of mass murder, do you actually know the damage it will have on Nigeria? In fact the US/Nigeria relationship will go into limbo and Biafra would gain a lot of sympathies just as they are having now all over the world.
Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by yaki84: 4:13pm On Jun 12, 2017
chuksanambra:
Okay, my people have added Buratai to the fight. I hope that when the Hausas start dealing with those ones in the north, they won't call Buratai to epp them.

Let them call Fayose and Fani Kayodo as the Commanders in Chief of the Biafran forces.
by their facial drawing aka marks u know them.

If he speaks, reason, act like afonja then he must be an aF0njA.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by abbey621(m): 4:13pm On Jun 12, 2017
Hizzy:

but the court accepted to handle the case so what ar u sayin

You obviously have no idea how U.S district courts operate, they will accept any case since it's a common district court, in the end they either refer the case to the proper court or dismiss it.

http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by jumobi1(m): 4:14pm On Jun 12, 2017
excanny:
Does this court has the jurisdiction to try human rights abuse?

This should be better filed at the International Court of Justice.

They do because the victim is in the United States. Ex, if a US citizen was the victim of torture abroad, the US courts has to somehow redress the issue to protect it's citizens. I don't know how they'll enforce their judgment if the defendant has no interests/property in the US.

Google the "Torture Victims Protection Act" and "Alien Tort Claims Act"

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by pastorcyrus(m): 4:14pm On Jun 12, 2017
Akissani:
Mtcheew......y are people still talking about biafra na? Just pack ur things and leave our land before we chase u

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by fineboynl(m): 4:15pm On Jun 12, 2017
ernieboy:

u people should shut up. Nigeria is a sovereign state not under the jurisdiction of another state. this is just the futile effort of a desperate and dying campaign.
you should shut up

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Alariwo2: 4:16pm On Jun 12, 2017
bauer36:
education is power

Tell them..

Lack of education is really killing those potopoto people. They are too dull, myopic and extremely gullible a tribe in this 21st century

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by akpamuomenka: 4:17pm On Jun 12, 2017
Tkester:


Maybe they forgot their juju when ICJ ruled in favour of Cameroon over Bakassi peninsula


You should have reminded him with a slap.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by ernieboy(m): 4:18pm On Jun 12, 2017
yaki84:

best reply of the year.


Seunmsg give this bobo small bottle of orijin.
the ICJ only had jurisdiction because Nigeria is a signatory to its charter, any country can withdraw from its jurisdiction and it cannot enforce its decision on those states.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by ExInferis(m): 4:20pm On Jun 12, 2017
Tkester:
Things are gradually escalating... I blame buhari for all these.

Once foreigners most especially westerners start getting involved in biafran issues then know it is a game over for Nigeria. This is because a lot of mercenaries will bring investment into it and will ultimately want to reap from it.

Keep daydreaming.

Which group of people has the wstern world assisted to violently gain independence in recent history?

America is retreating towards isolationism.

Or what did you think Trump meant by America First?

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by akpamuomenka: 4:20pm On Jun 12, 2017
chuksanambra:
Okay, my people have added Buratai to the fight. I hope that when the Hausas start dealing with those ones in the north, they won't call Buratai to epp them.

Let them call Fayose and Fani Kayodo as the Commanders in Chief of the Biafran forces.

No region has monopoly of violence.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by vanderbolt: 4:21pm On Jun 12, 2017
Akissani:
Mtcheew......y are people still talking about biafra na? Just pack ur things and leave our land before we chase u
fool fore ever. Fight for yourself first. Desert without water.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by yaki84: 4:21pm On Jun 12, 2017
ernieboy:

the ICJ only had jurisdiction because Nigeria is a signatory to its charter, any country can withdraw from its jurisdiction and it cannot enforce its decision on those states.
ayam not understanding......

R u sure u dey get our gist?
Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Nobody: 4:21pm On Jun 12, 2017
amaechi2020:
A United States (U.S.) District Court for the District of Columbia has granted leave to 10 Biafran plaintiffs to sue Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and 13 others for complicity in the 2016 torture and extra-judicial killings under colour of Nigeria law to retaliate for peaceful Biafran protests against ethnic or religious oppression.

Brought under the Torture Victims Protection Act and Alien Tort Claims Act Complaint, the plaintiffs are seeking millions of dollars as damages to compensate for their grievous losses and suffering.

The suit, John Doe, et al vs. Tukur Yusuf Buratai et al, with Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-01033, has been assigned to United States District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, who was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton.
The court further ruled that the “plaintiffs alleged that identifying plaintiffs or decedents 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.”

Counsel to the plaintiffs, Attorney Bruce Fein of Fein & DelValle PLLC, and W. Bruce DelValle, said, among others: “This landmark lawsuit is about justice and the rule of law coming to rescue Igbo, Biafrans and their political supporters who are persecuted, because of their Christian religion, ethnicity and political viewpoints since Nigeria’s independence from its colonial master Great Britain in October 1960.”

http://guardian.ng/news/buratai-13-others-taken-to-u-s-district-court-over-biafra-protests/

Dead on arrival. Will be thrown out for lack of Jurisdiction. Plaintiffs won't be able to prove harm or persecution at the hands of the Government. They won't be able to prove that their situation is not "normal" in a Nigerian society and so on and so on.

Just another well paid day for the law offices of Attorney Bruce Fein of Fein & DelValle PLLC, and W. Bruce DelValle.

Idiocy at its finest.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Edu3Again: 4:23pm On Jun 12, 2017
IbnSultaan:
Waste of time

No worry when ein dey Hague prison we go know. grin

FiguratvelySpkn:


Dead on arrival. Will be thrown out for lack of Jurisdiction. Plaintiffs won't be able to prove harm or persecution at the hands of the Government. They won't be able to prove that their situation is not "normal" in a Nigerian society and so on and so on.

Just another well paid day for the law offices of Attorney Bruce Fein of Fein & DelValle PLLC, and W. Bruce DelValle.

Idiocy at its finest.

there are videos

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by babutime: 4:25pm On Jun 12, 2017
UncleJudax:
grin

Nothing will happen to Buratai. Igbos are just frusturated individuals. OCT 1 is loading, why court again? Show your skills again like u did in 1967
Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Nobody: 4:27pm On Jun 12, 2017
abbey621:
These monkeys are always embarrassing themselves! No U.S court has jurisdiction over matters such as these as long as it did not happen on U.S soil and does not involve U.S citizens, I could understand International Criminal Court but a U.S district court, pathetic!

Not entirely true. The Alien Tort claim act offers some sort of relief to individuals in incidents that happened outside U.S soil; think the case of Ken-Saro Wiwa's descendants v Shell. However, the circumstances have to be "exceptional". Besides, the requirements to be met before relief can be granted are exceptionally high.

On the face of it, this seems to me like a waste of the court's time.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by ernieboy(m): 4:28pm On Jun 12, 2017
yaki84:
ayam not understanding......
R u sure u dey get our gist?
was responding to the guy who made reference to the ICJ, quoted u wrongly sorry.
Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by Odingo1: 4:29pm On Jun 12, 2017
Akissani:
Mtcheew......y are people still talking about biafra na? Just pack ur things and leave our land before we chase u
Cowards,let FG grant them Biafra,then you can chase them,you cant eat your cake and have it

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by tope56(m): 4:30pm On Jun 12, 2017
Do u know how many times they sue Obasanjo and IBB in America and nothing happen. America lack jurisdiction to entertain what is happening in Nigeria unless they take it to international court of Justice in Hague. pls don't fool yourself , what is in south east that will interest America nothing unlike Niger Delta. that have oil.

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Re: Buratai, 13 Others Taken To U.S. District Court Over Biafra Protests. by haqueurate(m): 4:31pm On Jun 12, 2017
lol
BIAFRA, nigerias longest commedy series.
season 3 "IPob goes to america-special feature, buratai the snake lord"

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