{"id":85675,"date":"2018-09-29T23:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=85675"},"modified":"2018-09-30T23:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:26:20","slug":"black-thursday-sierra-leoneans-demonstrate-against-bios-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=85675","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Black Thursday\u2019 Sierra Leoneans Demonstrate Against Bio\u2019s Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, the 27<sup>th<\/sup> September, 2018, has been declared Black Thursday by thousands of Sierra Leoneans living in the diaspora as they set to demonstrate against the oppression and terror perpetrated by the Sierra Leone People&#8217;s Party (SLPP) government of the former junta leader, Julius Maada Bio. The demonstration, which is set to hold today in New York at the United Nation\u2019s General Assembly summit, where world leaders are gathered, is geared towards sending a clear message to the world about the oppression and terror the less than six months old SLPP government is subjecting its citizens to.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizers of the demonstration, who referred to themselves as \u2018\u2019Concerned Sierra Leoneans\u2019\u2019, their action came is as a result of the insistent bastardization of the country\u2019s constitution, the rampant abuse of human rights, the unabated violence targeted on opposition members especially women and children, the killing of innocent citizens almost on a daily basis, the rampant arbitrary dismissals of thousands of citizens from their work places as a result of their regional, political and tribal affiliations and a host of many other atrocities perpetrated by Bio led government. They furthered that they cannot sit by as Sierra Leoneans and watch the former junta leader destroy the peace and democracy this country has enjoyed for the two decades now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Thousands of Sierra Leoneans from all over the world will be here today to join us save our country from the clutches of Bio\u2019s tyranny\u2019\u2019 they stated adding that, everything is in place for the said event. \u2018\u2019We called this day a Black Thursday because we are going to dress in black in order to mourn the death of our country\u2019s democracy and we expect every well-meaning Sierra Leonean to do same where ever they are\u2019\u2019 they concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ibrahim Alusine Kamara <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, the 27th September, 2018, has been declared Black Thursday by thousands of Sierra Leoneans living in the diaspora as they set to demonstrate against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[23094,935,21498,3069,5948,21512],"class_list":["post-85675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-black-thursday","tag-democracy","tag-featured","tag-julius-maada-bio","tag-political-violence","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85677,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675\/revisions\/85677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}