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Nigerian court orders UK to pay $572 million to families of miners killed during colonial rule
Enugu High Court ruled the British government liable for unlawful killings and ordered £20 million compensation per family with formal apologies and diplomatic engagement.
- On Thursday, Justice Anthony Onovo of the Enugu High Court ordered the British government to pay �20 million to each family of 21 coal miners, totaling �420 million, and to tender formal apologies.
- Workers at the Iva Valley Coal Mine protested harsh conditions and racial wage disparities by staging a 'go-slow' and occupying the mine, prompting colonial police and a colonial superintendent to shoot on 18 November 1949, killing 21 and injuring 51 coal miners.
- The Enugu High Court rejected a sovereign-immunity defence and ordered unreserved apologies to be published in Nigeria’s Daily Sun, Daily Independent, The Punch, and three UK newspapers, NAN reported.
- Justice Onovo ordered the Nigerian government to start diplomatic engagement with Britain within 60 days and set 60- and 90-day deadlines for publication and payment, with 10% interest until fully paid.
- Campaigners welcomed the ruling, which historians say helped galvanise Nigeria's independence and drew parallels with the U.K.'s Mau Mau settlement.
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A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay £420million in compensation to the families of 21 coal miners shot dead by colonial police more than 70 years ago
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The miners were killed at the Iva Valley coal mine while protesting harsh working conditions. They had occupied the mine when colonial police opened fire on them.
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Nigerian court orders UK to pay $572 million to families of miners killed during colonial rule
A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949.
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