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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: -
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Writing to your Member of Parliament, Member European Parliament to
condemn this genocide against the women and children of the oil rich
Niger Delta
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Asking them to recognize the rights of Niger Deltans to safe
habitation in
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Asking them to call the Nigerian Government to account for its
crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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