Greetings Family,

It is with great sadness and anger we send this appeal. We are calling for everyone within our community to get involved in supporting the African community in Birmingham. Last night up to three hundred African men and women launched a mass protest in an effort to launch a national boycott of Asian businesses. This action is in direct response to the recently alleged horrific gang rape of a young fourteen year old African girl by nineteen Asian men.

We must state that this story has not been confirmed as the family has yet to make a formal complaint. Nonetheless the national media seems to have deemed this story insignificant with coverage by the BBC and other major media institutions being almost non existent making it almost impossible to verify 'officially'.

Regardless of this we are calling for everyone in the African British community to boycott Asian businesses in support of our Birmingham cousins until the Asian community breaks the ‘wall of silence’ it has erected hiding the truth or protecting the paedophiles involved in this alleged heinous crime.

If we find the substantive facts of this story to be incorrect then the Ligali Organisation unreservedly apologises in advance for any inconvenience we may have caused. Anyone with information on this matter please contact us at news@ligali.org

You can read full and current details on the story by clicking here.

Finally, please spare a thought and prayer for our African communities in the Caribbean facing Hurricane ‘Wilma’. It is said to be transforming into a powerful storm and has already claimed a life in Jamaica.

Peace and Revolution

www.ligali.org

*African British is the name now used to describe the community previously mislabeled as Afro-Caribbean, Black British, UK Black, Coloured, Black other and Black. It embraces all British nationals with antecedents originating directly from Africa or indirectly via African diasporic communities, such as those in the Caribbean and South America.