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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria Army Fighting Boko Haram May Be Abusing Rights: Watchdog |
| 2013-07-02 |
| [BUSINESSWEEK] Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission said it received credible allegations security forces have been involved in human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, including rape, in their fight against the 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... Islamist group. According to the allegations, the Joint Task Force, which is fighting the Death Eater group, has carried out "summary executions, torture, arbitrary detention amounting to internment," the government's human rights watchdog said in a report released yesterday. "In particular, we have received persistent and credibly attested allegations of indiscriminate disposal of dead human remains" by JTF personnel and the northeastern Borno state Environmental Protection Agency, the Abuja-based agency said. Nigerian authorities have been battling Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in gun and kabooms across Nigeria's north and Abuja, the capital, since 2009, while fighting to establish an Islamic state in Africa's top oil producer. At least five wards in the town of Baga in Borno state were "completely razed by the soldiers," as they responded to an April 16 attack by Boko Haram that killed a soldier, the commission said, citing a police report. Local officials and residents in Baga, a town near Lake Chad, say at least 185 people were killed and more than 2,000 houses were burnt town. "Properties worth millions of naira were lost" amid the fire which burned more than 30 vehicles, 57 cycle of violences and 100 bags of beans and maize, the commission said, citing the police report. 'Thresholds of Killing' The military said only six non-combatants were killed, while one soldier and 30 Boko Haram fighters died in fighting. They said 30 thatched houses were burned due to incendiaries set off by weapons used by Boko Haram. Defense Headquarters front man Chris Olukolade in Abuja declined to comment on the report when contact today by phone for comment by Bloomberg News. "The impression has been created in the controversy that has followed this incident that certain thresholds of killing may be permissible as long as they are made to appear low enough," the commission said. "Tragically, Government has not done enough to discourage this impression." |
| Posted by:Fred |
#3 Did you protest when Boko Haram killed thousands? Of course they didn't. Boko Haram would kill them. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-07-02 09:38 |
| #2 Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission is the watchdog ? All I've got to say about the watchdog is: |
| Posted by: Clavish Hatrack2624 2013-07-02 08:58 |
| #1 Attention Nigeria's Human Rights Commission: Nigerian authorities have been battling Boko Haram, which has killed thousands Did you protest when Boko Haram killed thousands? If not, then STFU. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-07-02 00:18 |