NANS Drags South Africa To ICC

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has dragged South African to International Criminal Court (ICC) in the acts of inhumane killing of non citizens by South Africans. Comrade Olatinwo Jeremiah issued a statement on behalf of NANS on Monday reads:

 “As students of history, we recall physical assaults on immigrants from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique living in the Alexandra township for several weeks in January 1995 when armed gangs identified suspected “undocumented migrants” and marched them to the police station in an attempt to ‘clean’ the township of foreigners in a campaign known as “Buyelekhaya” (go back home) blaming foreigners for crime, unemployment and sexual attacks.

“September 1998 witnessed a Mozambican and two Senegalese being thrown out of a train. The assault was carried out by a group returning from a rally that blamed foreigners for unemployment, crime and spreading AIDS. Seven foreigners were killed on the Cape Flats in year 2000 over a five-week period in what police described as xenophobic murders possibly motivated by the fear that outsiders would claim property belonging to locals.”

NANS further called on the African Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to sanction the government of the Republic of South Africa over xenocidal crimes perpetrated by its citizens based on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Banjul Charter), the international human rights instrument.