Three hundred Jewish adherents arrested by government forces in Rivers State – a region of Biafra in Nigeria, will face secret execution, ...
Three hundred Jewish adherents arrested by government forces
in Rivers State – a region of Biafra in Nigeria, will face secret execution,
Mr. Nnamdi Kanu – leader of the secessionist group Indigenous People Of Biafra
said on Friday, citing sources of the Nigerian army.
Dozens of Igbo Jewish adherents and members of the Nigerian
separatist group were killed in a raid by Nigerian government forces on Oyigbo
and other communities in Rivers State after irate youth protesting police
brutality across the country touched police stations following the killing of
protesters by policemen during the protest.
At least six (6) synagogues were razed by government forces
who also arrested hundreds of people in the raid that began last month October
2020.
Mr. Kanu, who had expressed his displeasure at the
destruction of synagogues and the massacre, revealed that military sources said
the detained Biafran Jews “have been taken to the Army base at Obinze, Imo
State, from where they will be secretly taken to the North to be slaughtered.”
Meanwhile, many Nigerians have demanded that the United
States of America, the United Kingdom and other international communities place
a visa ban on Mr. Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State who ordered burning
of synagogues and the horrific massacre of Jewish adherents and members of the
IPOB who he claims to be “terrorists”.
“Besides the visa ban, Nyesom Wike should face a criminal
offense of genocide for ordering the execution of the Igbos and their Jewish
adherents in Rivers State. What he did was a crime of crimes, which is the
greatest crime under international law,” Lawrence Peter, an international law
and human rights expert told Africa Guardian.
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