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| Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian army accused of 7,000 deaths |
| 2015-06-04 |
| [BBC] More than 7,000 men and boys have died in Nigerian military custody during its fight against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... over the last four years, They are among more than 20,000 people who have been tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! during operations against the Islamist Lion of Islams, the rights group says. The military has rejected the allegations, calling the report biased and the statistics "spurious". At least 17,000 people have died in the conflict since 2009, says Amnesty. That means around 40% of all deaths have been in military custody. About 1.5 million people have also been displaced and hundreds more kidnapped since Boko Haram launched its violent uprising to impose Islamic rule in 2009. The report comes as Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari makes his first foreign trip since taking office - to Niger - to discuss regional operations against Boko Haram. 'Deliberately starved' BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups have accused Nigeria's security forces of carrying out many atrocities before. But this report goes further as the UK-based rights group names several senior officers - including major generals and brigadier generals - and calls on them to be investigated for murder, torture and enforced disappearance, he says. |
| Posted by:Fred |