Monrovia — Human rights activist, Rev. Torli Krua, a Liberia native of Boston, Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit towards america Authorities in search of a court docket to declassify illegal and racist secret message from Washington, DC in 1990 to the US Embassy in Monrovia ordering visa denial to all Liberians.
Rev. Krua can also be in search of a full refund in tens of millions of {dollars} to Liberian visa candidates denied visa since 1990 and restoration of US visa waiver to “all individuals born in Liberia”, in step with Article 1 of the Liberian Structure of 1824.
The lawsuit additionally seeks a court docket order compelling Congress to mitigate the primary “Apartheid Legislation in fashionable historical past, the March 26, 1790 act of Congress dominated by white supremacists and slave masters, which made the colour of the pores and skin of a human being the requirement of US citizenship.” The regulation was signed by the primary US President George Washington, proprietor of tons of of slaves, who by no means freed a single certainly one of his slaves in his lifetime.
The lawsuit additionally seeks a brand new regulation particularly crafted to mitigate American Colonization of March 3, 1819, that licensed the US Navy to facilitate establishing an American Colony-Liberia in West Africa and appropriated $100,000 American taxes to construct barracks for the Navy within the new colony.
Rev. Krua, a celebrated human rights activist is a local of Liberia based mostly in Boston, Massachusetts. In recognition of his immense contribution to refugees and minority teams within the US, the Metropolis Council of Boston declared Could 10, 2015 as Torli Krua Day.
In a dwell press convention, Rev Krua, talking to a gaggle of Liberian journalists by way of video stated “September 22, 2021, will go down in historical past as Emancipation Day for the American colony of Liberia and everybody born in Liberia!”
He stated the phrases of liberation of all Liberians at dwelling and overseas can not be decided by the American colonizers or corrupt Liberian politicians turned millionaires underneath the safety of American passports and American inexperienced playing cards, who’ve thrived for 2 centuries outdoors the authority of American legal guidelines.
In line with him, skyrocketing unemployment, ritualistic killings, endemic corruption, decimated infrastructures, lack of alternatives in Liberia exacerbate the horrific remedy of over 6000 Liberian Refugees underneath a ‘digital dying sentence’ in America with no entry to humanitarian help and no permits to work;
“… this humanitarian disaster present in America underneath the glare of the American Media won’t ever finish till we carry it to an finish! I name on everybody born in Liberia to unite and declare our freedom now! We should demand reparations and fast cost with pursuits of our cash stolen via unjust enrichment schemes, “non-refundable ” visa charges, wage theft, and ongoing damages in the course of the previous 200 years of secret American Colonization which was licensed by Congress and hidden from the American public,” he stated within the assertion.
American Colonization, like every western colonization, he stated, was mired by ‘unspeakable horrific human rights abuses, torture, massacres, and exploitation’ underneath the Flag and navy power of america and the clone of the Flag of america.
“In 2021, American taxpayers incentivize corruption and violence in Liberia, evidenced by extreme salaries and advantages of Liberian politicians, (greater than American public servants) together with many with American passports and inexperienced playing cards.” Rev. Krua stated in an announcement to all Liberians.
Making some historic reference resulting in his lawsuit, Rev. Krua stated on September 22, 1862, US President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation releasing all slaves within the Accomplice States efficient January 1, 1863.
It took two and a half years earlier than the information of freedom reached many Blacks in Texas. On June 19, 1865, Juneteenth (quick for “June Nineteenth”) US federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take management of the state and be certain that all enslaved folks be freed. The troops’ arrival got here a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Equally, he stated it’s the case for over 6,000 Liberian Refugees affected by years of neglect and abandonment in america with out work permits and with out entry to humanitarian help and over 4 million Liberians crushed and trapped in poverty within the American Colony of Liberia, whereas corrupt Liberian politicians turned millionaires with American Passports and entry to alternatives in America.
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He stated his lawsuit can also be based mostly on the Colonial Structure of 1824. Article 1 of the first structure of the American Colony of Liberia, ‘in a bid to lure extra African People away from the USA, “Land of Alternatives” and entice extra European Immigrants’, granted equal alternatives to all individuals born in Liberia.
“All individuals born in Liberia are entitled to all privileges loved by residents of america of America.”
Almost 200 years later, Krua, a former Liberian refugee, minister of the gospel, and human rights activist has filed a lawsuit in search of a refund in tens of millions of {dollars}, he claimed unlawfully exploited by the US Embassy in Monrovia from Liberians, the liberation of over 6,000 Liberians within the USA denied work permits in a lethal pandemic, declassification of the key illegal message from Washington ordering discrimination towards Liberian visa candidates however preferential remedy of Lebanese and Indians, demanding unjust enrichment and wage theft by American missionaries, firms, and people.
