| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa Subsaharan |
| Rights Group Urges Boko Haram to Stop Attacking Civilians |
| 2013-11-30 |
| [An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Friday called for 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... to stop targeting ordinary Nigerians, claiming the banned Islamist group had kidnapped scores of women and girls and used children as young as 12 in fighting. The organization also called on the Nigerian government to investigate the forced disappearances of hundreds of men and boys at the hands of security services, as well as "credible" claims of torture and death in jug. "Many Nigerian families have suffered, even lost loved ones, at the hands of both Boko Haram and the security forces," said the Africa director at the global rights monitor, Daniel Bekele. "Boko Haram must desist from waging war on ordinary Nigerians, while the government should take urgent steps to hold to account soldiers who have tortured, disappeared and killed, regardless of rank." |
| Posted by:Fred |