OGONI SELF RULE not GOVERNORSHIP: “The experience from World War II, Nuremberg trials of about 22 Nazi Germans supporters of Hitler paved way for the United Nations (UN), which is helping with serious sovereign and organizational constrains to modify and redefine or redirect the affairs of the world. One of such serious issues the UN has worked on is International Human Rights; the Rights of Indigenous Peoples such as the Ogoni, and the need to individually and collectively not harm but protect the global environment. Youd agree sovereignty was only in a person before modern state structure took root in Europe. Today countries have sovereignty, yet such has increasingly weaken compared to decades back, though a sovereign remain the most powerful entity, followed by trans or multinational corporations. [Modern international law breaches (overrides) national sovereignty when certain human rights such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide are committed by a state against its people]. Note that right to self-determination as guaranteed and protected under international law or United Nations Resolution 1514 of 1960, which Nigeria illegally used alongside about other 17 African nations to premise its independence is the basis for Ogoni Political Autonomy (OPA) so declared. Yet such declaration isnt an end in itself, but a process by which the end shall come if properly managed and not denied by same people seeking such autonomy as provided in the OBR. Self-determination applies also to precolonial nations or nationalities such as Ogoni that formed part of the Southern Protectorate amalgamated in 1914 with the Northern Protectorate to signal the artificial and unbar-gained country Nigeria. Instructively, not even the British conquest of the early 1900 stopped Ogonis from demanding and pursuing their (our) right to self determination or self-rule. See Ogoni self-determination quest and approval under the leadership of Ogoni SUN, Naakuu Timothy Paul Birabi in 1947.” ~BEN IKARI (USA 2012)
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:42:16 +0000
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