Socio-Financial Rights and Accountability Mission (SERAP) has urged Mr Karim A. A. Khan, Prosecutor, Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) “to urgently concern a proper ‘preventative assertion’ in relation to the continued violence, illegal killings, crimes in opposition to kids and different violations of worldwide legislation in Plateau State of Nigeria.”
SERAP additionally urged Mr Khan “to undertake preliminary examination into the state of affairs in Plateau State and to open an investigation or lengthen any present investigations to cowl the continued state of affairs within the state.”
The Group urged Mr Khan “to go to Plateau State to indicate the dedication by your Workplace to ship significant accountability and justice for the victims of the Plateau assaults and to deploy assets from the Belief Fund that your Workplace has established with a view to guarantee entry of victims to efficient treatments together with reparations.”
This was disclosed in a letter dated Saturday and signed by SERAP deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
Recall that over 190 individuals had been reportedly killed, tons of injured and a number of other others lacking because of the current disaster in Plateau.
The petition learn partially: “There’s a cheap foundation to consider that crimes below worldwide legislation and throughout the jurisdiction of the ICC have been dedicated within the ongoing violence in Plateau State.
“These allegations are additionally sufficiently grave to warrant a proper assertion and preliminary examination by your Workplace.
“Your intervention within the state of affairs in Plateau State would show your oft-repeated promise to strengthen the rule of legislation on the worldwide degree to the advantage of everybody.
“The give attention to victims offered for within the Rome Statute creates an vital platform for advancing human rights in Plateau State by the ICC.”