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Report Bundu Waterfront Genocide

Report Bundu Waterfront Genocide, PORT HARCOURT, october 2009

Bundu Waterfront Genocide

Interim report on
12 October 2009 Bund Waterfront Genocide
By the Government of Rivers State

This Report is on the recent Genocide at Bundu Waterfront in the Township axis of Port Harcourt in the Rivers State of Nigeria. The Report is presented by the National Union of Tenants of Nigeria and based, not only on newspaper publications, but more on the personal experiences by officials of the union who visited the scene and equally had interviews with leaders of the affected community who confirmed the incident and gave useful information to the union.

» Report Bundu Waterfront Genocide

Amnesty International public statement

13 October 2009
Nigeria: Security forces use violence against demonstrators

Amnesty International condemns the excessive use of force by some members of the security forces in Bundu waterfront community, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 12 October. At least three people were killed and eleven seriously injured when combined troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) and police used firearms to disperse a crowd.

» Amnesty International public statement

The International Alliance of Inhabitants is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods. The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights.