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BREAKING: Buratai Slammed With Multi-million Dollar Lawsuit Over
Extra-judicial
By: magbytes120 Date: June 11, 2017, 4:22 am
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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.
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