{"id":10063,"date":"2014-07-26T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:17:36","slug":"shaykh-zakzaky-they-killed-us-while-we-have-never-armed-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/shaykh-zakzaky-they-killed-us-while-we-have-never-armed-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaykh Zakzaky: They killed us while we have never armed ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leader of Nigeria\u2019s Shia community\u00a0Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, whose three sons were killed yesterday by Nigerian troops in Zaria said the Shia\u00a0were without arms\u00a0and never armed themselves in their history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zakzaky said in a brief telephone interview: \u201cWe were armless during our procession, and they shot us after we ended our procession, the whole world knows our history, we have never armed ourselves. We are now waiting for the lies that they will tell.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just helpless while the soldiers shot us with impunity; we have children, women and even the aged in our procession. We had this procession in many parts of the country, and nothing happened and for almost 40 years we have been doing this.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThey shot our brothers and sisters; my son Mahmud, who came from a university in Beirut, was shot in his stomach and died on the way to the hospital. They came back and arrested three of my sons alive and killed two while in their custody. How did they arrest my children without resistance? Our submission to the Nigerian authority is not in doubt hence they took them away. And so what lies are they telling?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThey took Ahmad, Hameed and Ali with them; Ahmad and Hameed are chemical and neurotics engineering students in China. It was my fourth son there, Ali, who had a gun wound that confirmed that the soldiers have killed his two brothers, and they were all arrested alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that, the action of the soldiers was premeditated and clearly clearly extra-judicial killing: \u201cIf you are accusing someone of committing an offense, you must carry out prosecution according to the law of the land, but why kill \u00a0people with impunity? Even if you say we have breached the law, then you must look for the leader and try him in an open court. \u00a0What have we done?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy appeals to all our brothers and sisters to be calm and I will soon address the press and you will receive our stand, thank you and wish you the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Sahara Reporters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leader of Nigeria\u2019s Shia community\u00a0Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, whose three sons were killed yesterday by Nigerian troops in Zaria said the Shia\u00a0were without arms\u00a0and never armed themselves in their history. Zakzaky said in a brief telephone interview: \u201cWe were armless during our procession, and they shot us after we …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,282,1425,1167,52,163,1166],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-khomeini","tag-nigeria","tag-palestine","tag-quds-day","tag-shia","tag-ticker","tag-zakzaky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10067,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions\/10067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}