BILIE recounted that the Igbos of Southeastern Nigeria which numbered up to 50million in population, predominantly Christians and believers in African Traditional Religion has over 67years been suffering innumerable genocidal killings of their kind as members of the Nigerian union. The group however noted that culturally, religiously and ethnically the Nigerian society has remained incongruous and violently conflicted. Nigeria like most other Black African countries is an artificial state entity that was cobbled together without recourse to the existing fundamental ethnic/religious or cultural differences. As a result very deep-rooted hatred and intolerance has bedeviled the country's population and led to the endemic killing of the ethnic Igbo people and others from the area called Biafraland by the rest of Nigerians. These consistent and unremitting persecution, murder, oppression, and looting of a people (in other words, crimes against humanity) according to this group dates back to 1945 when it began in forms of conflagrant riots, spanning through the civil war from 1967 to 1970 where about a recorded number to the tune of 3.1million Biafrans lost their lives. Nevertheless, it continued and up till this day and now under the appellation Boko Haram which is yet of the extraction that has posed the major persecutors of the Biafran people.
Excerpts from the source reads; "Today, the pace of suicidal bomb attacks of Igbo churches, homes, business places and town hall meeting places has increased. The Islamic attackers who have at various times manifested with different names presently go by Boko Haram. Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist group that has vowed to use jihad to Islamize Nigeria and turn it into a theocratic state. The group has continued to target the Igbo/Biafran ethnic people whom they consider the obstacle to their goal. The Islamic Boko Haram kill Igbo and other Biafrans in churches, marketplaces and any other place they can find them while the Nigerian government continues to demonstrate unwillingness to protect Igbo/Biafrans' lives and properties within Nigeria.
It is this state of hopelessness in the Nigerian government to provide them with security that has driven a group of Igbo/Biafrans known as Biafra Liberation in Exile (BILIE) to formally send a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Just as Ojukwu was moved in 1967 to declare independence to directly assume the responsibility of protecting his people from the genocidal killings, the group is asking ICC to intervene on their behalf before their kind are completely exterminated in Nigeria. BILIE through their legal representatives from Brimstone and Co. of Washington DC in the United States is requesting the Chief Prosecutor at ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to initiate investigations into the Islamic/ethnic/cultural killings of Igbo and other Biafrans in Nigeria. Anyone can follow the news by visiting BILIE's website at www.bilie.org and click on genocide. This request by BILIE compares with the recent declaration by Moreno-Ocampo while visiting Misrata, Libya. During the visit he announced that ICC would commence investigations into the alleged violent sex crimes (rapes) committed by forces loyal to the former Libyan leader Gadhafi against civilians during the Libyan conflict of 2011."
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