The Presidential Investigation Panel to Review Compliance with Human Rights Obligations and Rules of Engagement by the Nigerian Armed Forces has indicted the military for rape and extra-judicial killings in the course of fighting insurgents in the north-east.
In one of its reports, Amnesty International alleged that the military committed several human right abuses while battling Boko Haram insurgents. The report noted that some of the allegations raised by Amnesty International tallied with evidence given “by other petitioners and confirmed the existence of some abuses of both international humanitarian law and human rights obligations by the Nigerian military as already found in those specific cases by this panel.”
iv. Reports and findings of such independent investigators should be made public for timely redress and apportioning of responsibility and accountability for breach of human rights.” “Failure to examine some of these allegations will also leave those who may have been victims of such abuses without any recourse to justice. And if history has taught us anything, it is that the failure of our justice system to adequately respond to crisis is usually a recipe for greater conflict.’
To the best of my knowledge, there actions would have been ordered by a superior authority. Don't blame the Soldiers. They were train to follow orders. Why not investigate the source of there orders. My opinion
We have been sad whenever military is been killed, bur not knowing they are busy harvesting tomatoes.
body is rotten. For ur information, a masterpiece can not be cut out of a rotten wood.
Presidential what?, panel on election rigging or military thuggery?. The president has no moral authority to set up panel, to investigate anybody or any institution. He himself is corrupt to the bone marrow, and don't forget that if the head is rotten, it means that the whole
How is that a violation of their license? Are they not licensed for all these?
Militare Nigeriani assassini.
So,what next?Any justice or compensation for the victims?
how do we refocus and professionalize our army. It is sad 80% inecnigeria failings are traced to law enforcement. Shame
this is a situation were law enforcement is the culprit, is the perpetuator. This has become a hopeless situation
army were fingered in more snatches of ballot boxes than thugs themselves. Army killed more people than cult groups
how do we reduce crime in law enforcement? Troubling, a ballot box snatching army. Army conducted a parallel election in rivers