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Genocide for Oil in the Niger
Delta
The
Nigerian Government has ordered the killing of 20 million people
representing
the entire population of the Niger Delta so that the North and West
population
can live in peace.
Since
13.05.09 Nigerian military has been on the rampage, killing civilian
population,
burning down houses and creating a humanitarian disaster in Niger Delta
villages. The worse is yet to come.
An
eye witness information has today (27.05.09) confirmed to us that nine
villages have been destroyed and that he heard Nigerian
soldiers
boasting that they killed men, women and children and
that those
who were able to escape were driven into the bush where snakes and
other
dangerous animals killed them.
Children
who could not run but turned to
them for protection, they the soldiers injected with chemicals so that
they
will go and die later thus, preventing them growing up to become
militants.
This eye
witness account collaborates Amnesty
International’s report on the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the
Niger Delta
being enacted by the Nigerian Government
This
tragedy is being enacted by the Nigerian Government on the pretence of
ridding
the region of militant youths so that the rest of the country can live
in
peace. The reality is the desire to exterminate human life from the oil
producing
region in order to end agitation for the protection of lives and
environment,
education, electricity, pipe borne water, affordable health care;
employment;
basic infrastructure, end to the militarism in the region; right to
participate
in electoral process, right to a just society amongst other basic human
right
amenities.
Since
13 May 2009 the people of the Niger Delta, particularly women and
children, have
continued to bear the brunt of the anger and destruction being visited
on the
region by the Nigerian Government through the Joint Task Forces
composed of the
country’s security forces
According
to Amnesty International the Nigerian military Joint Task Force has
been
conducting land and air strikes on communities across the Warri South
and South
West Local Government perceived as the base for armed groups. Hundreds
of
people are now feared dead.
The
Nigerian military’s Joint Task Force continues to use helicopters
equipped with
machine guns against civilian population and attacking communities
within the
Delta. According to Amnesty International report, on 15.05.09 around
500 people
who gathered to participate in a yearly festival were attacked by
Nigerian
forces.
This
military attack by the Nigerian Government
of women and children to prevent future militancy amounts to ethnic
cleansing
and the killing of Jews in Ardorf Hitler’s
Please
join Women Of Africa to
condemn the
on-going slaughter of human lives and property in the Niger Delta by: -
- Writing to your Member of
Parliament, Member European Parliament to condemn this genocide against
the women and children of the oil rich Niger Delta
- Asking them to recognize
the rights of Niger Deltans to safe habitation in
- Asking them to call the
Nigerian Government to account for its crimes against humanity and war
crimes.
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ALL FOR YOUR
SUPPORT
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