... 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...
myrmidons, two months after nearly 200 others were freed after security screening.
Human rights groups have repeatedly accused the military of arbitrary detention of civilians in the country's northeast, which has been wracked by Islamist violence in the last six years.
Senior commanders have strongly rejected claims of wrongful imprisonment, torture, ill-treatment and even extra-judicial killings of prisoners.
A batch of 182 detainees was released in early July and on Wednesday 128 more -- 109 men, seven women and 12 boys -- were handed over to the Borno state governor Kashim Shettima in Maiduguri.
All had been locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
across the state as part of counter-insurgency operations, said Nigeria's highest-ranking army officer, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, who was at the ceremony.
They were declared "clean" after screening from military intelligence officers, the police and members of the Department of State Security or secret police, the chief of army staff added.
"This is (a) clear manifestation that the army is clearly professional," Tukur said at the handover.
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
to probe senior Nigerian officers for war crimes because of the treatment of detainees.
At least 20,000 mostly young men and boys have been arrested during the conflict while hundreds of people were unlawfully killed and thousands more died in military custody, the group alleged.
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein echoed Amnesty's concerns.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who has made defeating Boko Haram a priority and vowed to review military rules of engagement to try to end concerns about rights violations, has promised to probe the claims.
Last month he gave his new team of military three months to defeat the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group-allied rebels, whose insurgency has left at least 15,000 dead and displaced more than two million since 2009.