Did misunderstanding lead to horrific mob killings?
On October 5, four University of Port Harcourt students, Chiadika Biringa, Ugonna Obuzor, Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah left campus for the village of Aluu. According to Biringa's mother Chinwe, Obuzor was owed some money and he asked his three classmates to accompany him to the village to collect on the debt. Within minutes of their arrival, a rumor spread that the students were not there to collect but to steal. An enraged mob stripped them naked while beating them with sticks and rocks then wrapped car tires around their necks -- a form of torture known as "necklacing." As the four men sat on the muddy ground dazed and pleading for their lives, someone doused them with gasoline, lit a match and set them on fire.
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Chiadika Biringa
Overall Sentiment: -0.022493
Relevance: 0.90513
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| -0.120735 | "I want the world to know how our security failed us. I want the world to know that my son and his three friends are innocent of what they said they did," Biringa said. ... |
| -0.299085 | "Ain't No Love in the City" -- a title she now says ... |
| -0.292683 | "It's almost as if they knew they were going to die," Biringa said. ... |
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Emmett Till
Overall Sentiment: 0.0437271
Relevance: 0.584679
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| 0.219717 | "If justice is done, then I will be happy," she said. ... |
| 0.08319 | "If justice is done, then I will be happy," she said. "Because I know my son died a hero. He paid the price for Nigerian students in generations to come." |
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Eric Guttschuss
Overall Sentiment: -0.550291
Relevance: 0.418144
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| 0 | "Vigilante justice and mob justice generally takes place when there is a culture of impunity for crimes and in Nigeria, the Nigerian authorities have failed to crack down on this culture of impunity," Guttschuss told ... |
| -0.0590537 | He told CNN: "Generally if you are the victim of a crime and you go to the police, you are asked to fund the criminal investigation. If you don't have the money to fund it and meet the incessant bribe to the police the case is often dropped. On the other hand, the criminal suspect, if he or she has the financial means, can simply pay off the police." |
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Ugonna Obuzor
Overall Sentiment: -0.234595
Relevance: 0.384003
Steven
Overall Sentiment: -0.189174
Relevance: 0.298593
Tekena Elkanah
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.296271
Lloyd Toku
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.287242
Frank Mba
Overall Sentiment: -0.139826
Relevance: 0.268626
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| -0.114886 | Frank Mba says while Nigeria's police is not perfect, the police "are committed to improving our competency through training and retraining and to improve our service, deliver to protect law and order and to stabilize democracy in Africa's largest country." |
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Organization: Nigerian police
Overall Sentiment: -0.189444
Relevance: 0.684315
Organization: Human Rights Watch
Overall Sentiment: -0.143663
Relevance: 0.331957
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Company: CNN
Overall Sentiment: -0.131505
Relevance: 0.302096
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Company: Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.349565
Country: Nigeria
Overall Sentiment: -0.398407
Relevance: 0.580588
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Country: United States
Overall Sentiment: -0.0548059
Relevance: 0.320984
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City: Aluu
Overall Sentiment: -0.0640665
Relevance: 0.407557
GeographicFeature: Tallahatchie River
Overall Sentiment: -0.0438643
Relevance: 0.357091
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Facility: Port Harcourt
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.347534
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