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Petition The Violations of Human and Civil rights of Ndi Igbo in the Federation of Nigeria (1966 - 1999): A Call for Reparations and Appropriate Restitution, A Petition to the Human Rights Violations Investigating Committee, by Oha-na-Eze (The Apex Organization of the Entire Igbo People of Nigeria) for and on Behalf of the Entire Ndi Igbo, October 1999 by Oha-na-Eze ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE 1. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1.1 Preamble 1.2 Historical Background 2. OVERVIEW OF MARGINALISATION IN NIGERIAN POLITY 2.1 Preamble 2.2 Marginalisation 2.3 Origins and Victims of Marginalisation 3. VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF NDI IGBO DURING THE IMMEDIATE PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD 3.1 Preamble 3.2 Misplaced Aggression 3.3 Waves of Pogrom 3.4 International Law 3.5 Genocide 3.6 The Cost 3.7 The Refugee Problem and Federal Government Insensitivity. 3.8 Prayers 4. VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF NDI IGBO DURING THE CIVIL WAR 4.1 Preamble 4.2 Continuation of Genocide 4.3 Land War: Concentration on Civilian Targets 4.4 Bombing: Concentration on Civilian Targets 4.5 Scorched Earth Policy 4.6 Rapes 4.7 Maltreatment of War Prisoners 4.8 Hunger as Nigeria’s Weapon of War 4.9 The Final Solution 4.10 Prayers 3 5. VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF NDI IGBO IN THE IMMEDIATE POST-WAR ERA 5.1 Preamble 5.2 Social Strangulation 5.2.1 Physical Liquidation 5.2.2 Continuation of Starvation Policy 5.2.3 Mass Dismissal of Igbo Public Servants 5.2.4 Destruction of Education 5.2.5 Social Ostracism 5.3 Economic Strangulation 5.3.1 Denial of Pre-War Savings 5.3.2 Exclusion from the Commanding Heights Of the Economy 5.3.3 Abandoned Property Policy 5.3.4 No Reconstruction 5.3.5 Denial of Source of Livelihood to Poor Igbo Traders 5.3.6 Excision of Igbo Mineral-Rich Areas From Igboland 5.4 Political Strangulation 5.4.1 Exclusion from Political Apex 5.4.2 Political Manipulation of Census Figures 5.5 Prayers 6. VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF NDI IGBO IN THE LATER POST-WAR ERA - TO 1999 6.1 Preamble 6.2 Political Disempowerment 6.2.l Creation of States 6.2.2 Exclusion from Political Apex 6.2.3 A New Height in Marginalisation in Obasanjo’s Regime 6.3 Social Disempowerment 6.3.1 Employment in the Federal Sector 6.3.2 Racial Discrimination 6.4 Economic Disempowerment 6.4.1 Denial and Delay of Infrastructural Facilities 6.4.2 Petroleum Trust Fund: Conduit Pipe for Inequitable Resources Transfer 6.4.3 Discriminatory Industrial Policy 6.4.4 Revenue Sharing 6.4.5 Prayers 4 7. SUMMARY OF REMEDIES 7.1 Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndi Igbo During the Immediate Pre- Civil War Period 7.2 Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndi Igbo During the Civil War 7.3 Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndi Igbo in the Immediate Post-war Era 7.4 Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndi Igbo in the Later Post- war Era 7.5 Grand Total Monetary Compensation 8. CONCLUSION