Social:Jungle justice
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Short description: Form of extrajudicial punishment or killing
Jungle justice or mob justice is a form of public extrajudicial killings which can be found in Nigeria and Cameroon, where an alleged criminal is publicly humiliated, beaten and summarily executed by vigilantes or an angry mob.[1][2][3] Treatments can vary from a "muddy treatment", where the alleged criminal is forced to roll in mud for hours[4] to severe beatings followed by execution by necklacing. This form of street justice occurs where a dysfunctional and corrupt judiciary system and law enforcement have "lost all credibility. European principles of justice have likewise become discredited."[5][6]
Notable examples include the Bakassi Boys[5] and the Aluu four lynching.
See also
- Frontier justice - Extrajudicial killings in the American Wild West
References
- ↑ Cameroon's predicament, Peter Tse Angwafo, p 119
- ↑ Nigeria's vigilante 'jungle justice', BBC News
- ↑ Jungle Justice: A Vicious Violation if Human Rights in Africa, Amara Onu
- ↑ Cable thief given muddy treatment in Anambra (Graphic Photos), Pulse
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Bakassi Boys: fighting crime in Nigeria, Johannes Harnischfeger, The Journal of Modern African Studies
- ↑ Human Security and the Problem of Jungle (Mob) Justice in Cameroon, Samah, 2006[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
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