240 people,
babies and children included, who were arbitrarily detained by the Nigerian
military while they were fleeing from Boko Haram, have died in detention
during
the year 2016, Amnesty International alleges.
In it's
2016/2017 report, Amnesty International revealed that the security forces in
Nigeria continually violate human rights and engage in extrajudicial executions
and arrests in the process of trying to fight the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
According to
the report, men, women and children were arrested as they fled towns captured
by Boko Haram and were detained without access to their families or a lawyer
and were not brought before a court either. While in detention, 240 of them
died, of which there were 29 children and babies aged 0 to 5 years.
The report
also made other allegations, some of them being that children and young girls
were detained in overcrowded facilities without proper sanitary provisions,
that the army participated in unlawful killings of over 100 pro-Biafra
supporters, and that the army sexually exploited women in IDP camps in exchange
for favours.
Meanwhile,
Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, responded to the
allegations by Amnesty International, saying it was fabricated. In a statement
signed by Brig. Gen. Abubakar, he described the report as a continuation of
Amnesty International's “series of spurious fabrications aimed at tarnishing
the good image of the Nigerian military.”
See
screenshots of part of the report by Amnesty International below...
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