NANS Drags South Africa To ICC

                         

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned in its totality the acts of inhumane killing of non citizens by South Africans.

A statement issued by the Zone D public relations officer, Comrade Olatinwo Jeremiah 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 noted that from 2001 till date, South Africans have been cruel to foreign nationals in their country, describing the act as barbaric and uncivilized.

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.

“We give these international judicial institutions a 7-day ultimatum to do this as Nigerian students all over the world will mobilise and occupy South African establishments and high commissions if they failed to do so. In Nigeria, businesses will

be stalled in all South African firms and their products will not be welcomed on our campuses.

We believe the South Africans should have gotten over the paranoia and post traumatic effect of their servitude in the apartheid era of 1948-1990. Enough is enough. Notwithstanding, we urge Nigerians in South Africa to be calm and stay away from volatile areas. Aluta continua, Victoria ascerta,” NANS warned.

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