He accused Laing of calling for a united Nigeria whereas Biafrans have been allegedly being killed by the Nigerian authorities.

 

Within the letter dated June 1, 2022, Fein requested the UK to file a swimsuit towards Nigeria within the Worldwide Court docket of Justice for denying “the folks of Biafra a self-determination referendum as required by Article I of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and an infinite variety of corresponding human rights treaties and resolutions.”

Within the letter, the US-based lawyer alleged that no Fulani has ever been prosecuted and punished for murdering a Biafran within the historical past of Nigeria.

He added that calling for self-determination isn’t a criminal offense.

A part of the letter learn, “I used to be astonished if not appalled by your Might 12 tweet. You voiced delight at assembly with Ambassador President Normal George Obiozor of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and different senior leaders from the South East. Why the delight or the assembly?

“Ambassador Obiozor is to Biafrans throughout their ongoing genocide by the Fulani what Lord Haw-Haw was to the British throughout the Nazi Blitz? Why would you meet with a quisling?

“Much more reprehensible was your tacit enthusiasm for a united Nigeria, indistinguishable from a suicide pact for Biafrans. As you understand, Nigeria was artificially created by the UK (UK) on the level of machine weapons in 1914.

“Following its signature divide-and-conquer colonization coverage, the UK compelled the Biafran folks, with a proper to self-determination, towards their will right into a flamable combination of incompatible ethnic teams underneath the umbrella of UK sovereignty. The UK decamped in 1960 leaving Nigeria poised to blow up like nitroglycerin. The 1967-1970 genocide of Biafrans, aided and abetted by the UK itself, was as predictable as Newton’s legal guidelines of movement.

“Previous to compelled unification in 1914, the British negotiated treaties with Biafra. A jus cogens norm of worldwide legislation endows the Biafran folks with a proper to self-determination towards a Fulani-controlled Nigerian authorities that has notoriously excluded all Biafrans however a handful of bribable defectors from the corridors of energy. One stark reality speaks volumes. No Fulani has ever been prosecuted and punished for murdering a Biafran within the historical past of Nigeria!

“Self-determination stands on the apex of all internationally acknowledged human rights as a result of it’s preservative of all others. Self-determination is a defend towards oppression by the tyranny of the bulk or the ruthless.

“The UK insisted on self-determination for Protestant Northern Eire to forestall possible persecution by the Roman Catholic Republic of Eire. It supported a 2011 South Sudan self-determination referendum to redress the persecution of the largely Black, Christian-Animist minority in Sudan by the Arab-Muslim governing majority.

“As a substitute of supporting a united, lawless, Nigeria confected by the British for ulterior motives, you need to be advocating a United Kingdom swimsuit towards Nigeria within the Worldwide Court docket of Justice for denying the folks of Biafra a self-determination referendum as required by Article I of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and an infinite variety of corresponding human rights treaties and resolutions.

“It’s the least that the UK can do to atone for its egregious crimes and sins towards the Biafran those who have persevered for greater than a century. There isn’t any statute of limitations on justice.

“I count on a substantive response at your earliest comfort. Self-determination is just too necessary to be left to temporizing or tergiversation.”