Boko Haram is occupying more than 130 villages and towns
in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, Human Rights Watch
said yesterday.
The sect killed an estimated 3,750 last year, the global
rights body said.
It claimed that 1,200 civilians were killed last year in the
crises between nomadic pastoralists and farming
communities in some states in the North-Central.
These disclosures were contained in the HRW World Report
2015, which was released to the media.
The report said: “In April, Boko Haram’s abduction of nearly
300 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok focused
unprecedented global attention on the group’s abduction of
women and girls.
“It continues to seize and control territory in Borno, Yobe,
and Adamawa states, where it holds more than 130 villages
and towns. In responding to the group, government security
forces have been implicated in grave violations of human
rights and international humanitarian law. An estimated
3,750 civilians were killed by Boko Haram attacks in 2014.
“Boko Haram has indiscriminately killed civilians, abducted
women and girls, forcefully conscripted young men and
boys, and destroyed villages, towns, and schools, Human
Rights Watch said.
“The conflict has resulted in the deaths of thousands of
civilians and the displacement of 981, 416 residents within
Nigeria as well as more than 150,000 people who have
become refugees in neighboring countries.”
The HRW faulted the military for not investigating alleged
killing of 600 detainees who fled during the attack on Giwa
Military Barracks in Maiduguri.
“During a Boko Haram attack in March on the Giwa Military
Barracks and detention facility in Maiduguri, security forces
allegedly killed more than 600 detainees who fled during the
attack.”No member of the security forces has been brought
to justice for these and previous violations of human rights,
including the massive deaths and destruction of property
from a military raid in Baga, Borno State in April 2013.
Despite repeated pledges by the military, these incidents are
yet to be investigated.
“Government security forces have responded to the Boko
Haram violence in a heavy-handed way, leading to serious
human rights violations.
“ Suspects are routinely abused, tortured, and held
incommunicado in abusive detention conditions without
charge or trial.
“Local vigilante groups assisting Nigerian security forces
were allegedly implicated in the recruitment and use of child
soldiers, and ill-treatment, and unlawful killing of Boko
Haram suspects.”
The report said more than 1,200 people were killed in the
clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farming
communities in some states in the North-Central in 2014.
The report added: “In the North Central states of Nigeria,
communal violence, fuelled by competition for power and
access to land between nomadic pastoralists and farming
communities, killed more than 1,200 people in 2014.
“Nigerian authorities made scant effort to investigate or
prosecute those responsible for the violence.”
The Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch, Mausi
Segun, said: “With elections around the corner, citizens
should ensure that Nigeria’s human rights challenges are at
the centre of the political discourse.
“Unmitigated violence is a threat to the nation’s stability
and to the well-being of all Nigerians, not just those in the
North.”
“Nigerians should be putting pressure on their government
in this election season to halt the endemic violence.
”Nigeria’s leaders should be as focused on the rights of all
residents as they are on winning the battles of party
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