justice, morality and equity: within a very large population, what would be the criteria to identify the victims that deserve compensation? Why compensate someone and not compensate his neighbour? Based on which criteria should be determined the amount each victim would receive? Who would manage that one Billion Dollars? The meaning of this set of questions is to leave clear the impracticability of that solution. In case of human rights violations that affect undetermined number of victims or a very large population, as in the instant case, the compensation shall come not as an individual pecuniary advantage, but as a collective benefit adequate to repair, as completely as possible, the collective harm that a violation of a collective right causes. Based on the above reasons, the prayer for monetary compensation of one Billion US Dollars to the victims is dismissed” SERAP Vs NIGERIA - JUDGMENT N° ECW/CCJ/JUD/18/12. 165. In a similar vein where compensation was claimed for 1 million internally displaced persons, the Court held that “... Further, the plaintiff has not given the method of distribution of the damages nor has the plaintiff specified who the beneficiaries are or would be and how they are determined. In the circumstances, this court is not inclined to grant the damages sought and hereby declines to do so” SERAP &12 ORS V NIGERIA ECW/CCJ/JUD/19/16, PARAGRAPH 8.4.3. 166. The Court also reiterated its position in another case when it held that : “ “The Applicants have made claims for some compensation on behalf of the communities. The Court has no record of the details of the victims, their names, gender, age, address; the properties destroyed have also not been specifically identified nor their value indicated. In this wise, the Court is unable to award any monetary compensation.” REV FATHER 50

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