Baroness Caroline Cox of the British House of Lords More signatories have joined the petition to the Prosecutor of the International C...
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| Baroness Caroline Cox of the British House of Lords |
More signatories have joined the petition to the Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court (ICC) initiated by Nigerians in the
Diaspora.
“A member of the British House of Lords just signed today
and people from across Nigeria too have signed. The petition has now been
signed by people from three continents and several Nigerian and American
states. We welcome the signature of Baroness Caroline Cox of the British House
of Lords, a consistent and outspoken champion of global human rights and
religious freedom,” one of those behind the petition, Barrister Emmanuel Ogebe,
said on Tuesday.
Ogebe in a statement e-mailed to News Express from his base
in Washington, DC, USA, quoted House of Lords member, Lord DAVID Alton, as
equating “the gory images from last week’s Southern Kaduna massacres to images
from Darfur.”
He quoted Lord Alton as saying: “July 27th: At least 21
killed in latest attacks in southern Kaduna. A friend told me that she was
struck by the similarity between the pictures from Kaduna and those which came
from Darfur during the genocide. I visited Darfur during that period and agree
with her.
“Today I came across a picture of the victims of the latest
massacre of returning farmers in Darfur by militia men and was struck by its
similarity with pictures I have been receiving over the past few weeks of mass
burials in southern Kaduna. This is not the first time the similarity of the
two situations have come to mind. Southern Kaduna is almost like watching
Darfur in slow motion, or at its outset.”
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