Amnesty Int’l Indicts Nigeria Military On Rights Abuses
December 11, 2020
3:30 am
Amnesty International has accused the Nigeria Military for human right abuses indicating that at least 10,000 civilians have died in Nigerian military custody since 2011.
The civilians were mostly those detained in connection with the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
Amnesty International in its report said that many of the deaths were recorded at the ‘infamous Giwa Barracks’ in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state.
…‘In April 2017 alone, 166 corpses were transferred from Giwa to the mortuary,’ the report said.
‘Severe overcrowding, scarce food and water, extreme heat, infestation by parasites and insects,
