Open Letter to President of Nigeria from PGA on Ending Impunity for Boko Haram through ICC

Dr. Jonathan has been President of Nigeria since May 2010.
Dr. Jonathan has been President of Nigeria since May 2010.

June 11, 2014 | New York / The Hague / Accra / Buenos Aires / Islamabad / Kampala / London / Montevideo / Paramaribo / Santo Domingo / Stockholm / Wellington

H.E. President Goodluck Jonathan, The President of the Republic of Nigeria Abuja , Republic of Nigeria

Dear Mr. President Goodluck Jonathan,

We are writing to you today in our capacity as the Members of the Executive Committee of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), a network of over 1100 democratically-elected individual legislators from 140 countries worldwide, to express our heartfelt sympathies with the Nigerian people, for the terrible kidnapping and enslavement of over 200 Nigerian girls from a school in Chibok in April this year by Boko Haram.

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