Kid from Death Row lives to tell a tale

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Mr Kiki Francis lived in a fishing village near the Obalende market on Ikoyi island, Nigeria. Police arrested him for no apparent reason on Sep 17, 1984 and he was convicted in 1988. No appeal was permitted under the Robbery and Firearms Tribunal set up by Decree 5 of 1984. The trial was full of irregularities and biased against the convicts. Executions were planned in Aug 1990 by the military governor of Lagos, Colonel Raji Rasaki. Beko Ransome-Kuti of the Campaign for the Defence of Human Rights got a court order suspending the executions.

Laws, regulations and rules, Imprisonment, Human rights workers, Human rights activists, Lagos, Nigeria (City), Executions and executioners, Execution (Punishment), Executioners, Lagos, Nigeria

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Liberians flee 'peace-keeping' offensive

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The National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) has taken the coastal city of Greenville and the 15,000 residents have run off into the bush, many, including women and children, having been killed by indiscriminate fire. This has come from Nigerian gunboats and also from air raids. The Front is led by Charles Taylor and is thought to number around 20,000. He is being pressurised to disarm and sign a peace plan put together by the 16 countries of the West African Economic Community.

Political aspects, Liberia, Military policy, National Patriotic Front (Liberia)

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Thousands flee Nigeria's hidden war

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There is civil war between the Jukuns and Tivs within the eastern state of Nigeria, Taraba. About 5,000 have been killed and there are tens of thousands of refugees. Many villages and homesteads have been burned. Batanji was attacked on Feb 12 1992 spreading the war to other ethnic minorities. The Jukuns are a fishing people and the Tivs a farming people. Both claim that they are the true indigenous race of the Wukari region.

Military aspects, Civil war

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