(c) Mob justice

This scene Mob Justice has gradually become a normal way of life in Nigeria.

A new worrying trend is the killing of detainees during attempts to escape from prison, and the phenomenon of mob justice.

If passed into law it would introduce jail sentences and fines for perpetrators of mob justice and the communities where the violence takes place.

It also carried out sensitization campaigns on mob justice, international human rights standards, sexual violence, IDPs and election related issues.

The tragic deaths of the students now known as the Aluu4 have caused outrage and plenty of online discussion about the serious problem of mob justice in Nigeria.

Now we know that there are no dependable statistics or numbers regarding Mob Justice occurrences in Nigeria, but what we do know is that has been happening for years.

And for years we have complained, we have cried and we have watched, but nothing has changed as Mob Justice still occurs with its perpetrators largely going unpunished.

The independent expert was informed of 96 cases of violation of the right to life as a result of mob justice most of the cases 72 occurred in Muyinga, Cankuzo and Karuzi provinces.

In Karuzi province, where the problem was especially acute, HRD held a sensitization session on mob justice attended by some 500 residents, including a traditional healer.

In an email interview, Kathleen Ndongmo, a Cameroonian citizen based in Lagos, Nigeria who has been active in the campaign, describes how they hope to inspire more action against mob justice

What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

In total, more than 550 violations of the right to life, including as a result of mob justice , were reported by ONUB human rights observers during the period under review.

On October 5, 2012, four students of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria were beaten and burnt to death by a lynch mob, for allegedly stealing a Blackberry phone and a laptop.

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ONUB also documented at least 30 cases of mob justice, in which suspects were beaten to death, burnt alive and their houses burnt down or destroyed, indicating the extent of discontent with and mistrust of the justice system within the population.

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You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

The kids died without any justice.

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Mobs shouted at Tunisian women demonstrators to go back to the kitchen where they belong.

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For, while it is true that there can be no peace without justice, it is equally true that without peace, there will be no justice.

The Internet can foster more demagoguery than sober analysis.

(p) Take effective measures, including judicial measures, to prevent mob justice

Frontier justice was swift.

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In the absence of the rule of law, the rule of man, mob rule or the law of the jungle will prevail.

10 See Adalah's 2004 Annual Report of Activities, Adalah The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, April 2005, pp. 15 16.

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Yellow is the color of Thai royalty, and the Palace was believed to be sympathetic to the mobs.

Greater burden sharing was a rote American demand.

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It is also likely that some radical hot heads wanted to overthrow the government by mob action.

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

There is no justice in the world. There is some justice in the world. The world is just.

Members would also be selected so as to ensure equitable regional representation.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.