FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
I WROTE ON 15TH FEBRUARY 2010:
MORE HUMAN BARBARITY.
THIS IS ALSO A SIGN OF APOCALYPSE.
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
STIGMATIST
SANT?ELPIDIO A MARE, (ITALY)
15TH FEBRUARY 2010
SHOCKING VIDEO: NIGERIA ? ARMY SLAUGHTERS INNOCENT CIVILIANS
Wednesday 17th June 2009.
How can Italy and ENI run business with a country whose army slaughters innocent civilians? ? Video Shock: Nigeria. The massacre of innocent civilians carries on. Nigerian soldiers are filmed while they kill 2 civilians. Mend: ?it is a war crime?.
A video of Nigerian soldiers executing two unarmed brothers in the Niger Delta has sparked outrage and condemnation worldwide with Nigerian main rebel group calling it a ?war crime? and demanding international inquiry.
Meanwhile, the attacks on oil facilities by the rebel group continue. On Monday, Chevron has confirmed damages to the Utonana-Makaraba-Abiteye pipeline and a fire at the Makaraba Jacket 5 plant in the state of Delta. Yesterday, militants bombed the Abiteye station still managed by Chevron, "causing another problem to the systems resulted in a huge fire that is consuming the entire facility," said a statement of MEND. An independent review was not possible at this stage, in the absence of an official communiqu? by the company.
In the video airing on Internet video site, Youtube, a young man is seen lying on the floor of a naval patrol ship beside the lifeless body of his brother. The man pleads for his life while about 20 Nigerian soldiers prance around and barks questions at him.
One of the soldiers asks him to look at the camera. Another soldier in bare feet and riffle then asks, ?Who you be?? Meaning who are you? The terrified man is seen tapping the lifeless body of his brother with his right hand.
The Nigerian soldier repeats the order ?who you be??
The man answers ?Boma?
?Where are you from?? The soldier asked
?Bonny? the man answers.
?Boom, boom? The soldier shoots him on the head and the man dies instantly.
Thetimesofnigeria.com has not been able to verify the circumstance surrounding the death of the other victim.
In its reaction, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) is calling for the International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch to conduct a judicial inquiry into what it called a ?War crime.?
In a petition sent to the organizations and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, MEND said:
?You must have seen the tape of a callous extra judicial killing of two brothers recently in the Niger Delta. This practice is done with impunity and denied by the Nigerian army and government.
?No day passes without an incident such as what you have witnessed. The wanton destruction of property and indiscriminate bombing of civilians by the ill-trained military can best be left to your imagination.
?It is in the midst of this brutality that oil majors conduct their business. This is the real definition of blood oil, which the world must condemn.
?We are calling on the United Nations and the International community to investigate this war crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
?We want an international commission headed by the UN to conduct an investigation into the war crimes against our people by the Nigerian state.?
The statement was signed by Jomo Gbomo.
