The Nigerian government’s authorisation of the massacre of people in the Niger Delta’s Gbaranmatu kingdom suggests that it has no intention of reaching a peaceful settlement in the region, the Niger Delta Civil Society Coalition has said. Human rights abuses perpetrated by government and military task forces have reached a level that the international community can no longer ignore, NDCSC suggests. At present, ‘human needs are continually being frustrated on a large scale by illegitimate fede...read more
The Nigerian government’s authorisation of the massacre of people in the Niger Delta’s Gbaranmatu kingdom suggests that it has no intention of reaching a peaceful settlement in the region, the Niger Delta Civil Society Coalition has said. Human rights abuses perpetrated by government and military task forces have reached a level that the international community can no longer ignore, NDCSC suggests. At present, ‘human needs are continually being frustrated on a large scale by illegitimate federal and state regimes in the Niger Delta’, the group says. NDCSC blames the current cycle of violence on the structural violence of the state in response to a peaceful agitation by the Ogoni social movement. Peace lies in putting the people of the region at the heart of a process of sustainable development.
