Fein
& DelValle, PLLC
300
New Jersey Avenue NW, Suite 900
Washington,
D.C. 20001
Tele:
202.465.8727
Fax:
202.347.0130
Bruce E. Fein, Esquire Email: [email protected]
W. Bruce DelValle, Esquire* [email protected]
*Admitted
to practice in Florida and
the
District of Columbia.
PRESS RELEASE
August
4, 2018
Washington,
D.C.
CONTACT:
FEIN &
DELVALLE LAW FIRM ASKS UNITED STATES JUDGE TO RECONSIDER DISMISSAL OF LAWSUIT TO
REDRESS NIGERIAN PRESIDENT BUHARI’S MASS KILLINGS AND TORTURE OF UNARMED &
DEFENSELESS BIAFRANS
Today, the law
firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC asked a federal district court to reconsider
and reverse its prior MEMORANDUM OPINON AND ORDER dismissing a lawsuit to
redress the Nigerian Government of President Muhammadu Buhari’s mass killings
and torture of unarmed and defenseless pro Biafra activists peacefully
protesting their religious and ethnic persecution. In filing a MOTION TO RECONSIDER in the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia in DOE 1, ET AL. v. TUKUR YUSUF BURATAI, ET AL,
Civil Action No. 17-1033 (DLF), Fein & DelValle underscored that the
MEMORANDUM OPINION’S counter-textual, counter-historical, counter-logical
interpretation of foreign-official immunity for crimes against humanity, i.e.,
extrajudicial killings and torture, makes the Torture Victims Protection Act a
dead letter. The MEMORANDUM OPINON
rewards President Buhari’s authorized murders and torture of pro Biafra
activists by blessing these twin universal crimes with foreign-official
immunity. The MEMORANDUM OPINON will
embolden the Nigerian Government headed by President Buhari to further engage
in human rights outrages against unarmed and defenseless pro Biafra citizens. It will instruct other tyrants in Eritrea,
Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, Burma, and
elsewhere to equal or better Buhari’s example as regards extrajudicial killing,
torture and terror.
In sum, the District Court’s crabbed
interpretation of the TVPA promotes rather than deters government-sponsored
crimes against humanity in Nigeria and globally. It makes the law and engine of injustice
rather than a paladin of justice. Mr.
Fein stated: “This MEMORANDUM OPINION will not stand. It is a dagger in the back of human rights
law that rejected a ‘following orders’ defense to crimes against humanity in
the trials of Nazi War criminals at Nuremberg and Adolph Eichmann in
Jerusalem.”
Our Law Firm, Fein and Delvalle PLLC, thanks the doggedness
and resilience of the EKWENCHE Group, Chicago and other partners based
here in USA and in Nigeria. For purpose of records and clarity, our law
firm is hired and retained by the EKWENCHE Group which also pays for our
professional services in the named suit and related others or other matters
thereto.
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