Amnesty International (AI) has for long criticised the Nigerian Army’s handling of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, alleging infringement of human rights in the soldiers’ activities in the country.
AI now says a report that will prove their claims is ready. The report, which the human rights group said would demonstrate widespread use of torture of the army will be released in Nigeria on 18th September, 2014.
The report titled, “Welcome to hell fire” chronicled torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria.
“Amnesty International will highlight in its upcoming report “Welcome to hell fire”: Torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria,” said Max Tucker, AI’s Global Campaigns and Thematic Issues Press Officer.
According to Tucker, torture in Nigeria was so prevalent that it was not even classified as a criminal offence in the country.
He stated that the report details an alarming array of torture techniques used against hundreds of Boko Haram suspects in the country as Nigeria’s military hunts for members of the armed group.
He said that use of torture was not restricted to the Nigerian Army alone as the “police force, plagued by endemic corruption and a lack of accountability, is also found to torture ordinary criminal suspects on an industrial scale – to extract a confession, extort money, or to target sex workers.”
Mac Tucker or what ever they call him and his AI should go to hell. Are BH animals obeying human rights? Did America obey human rights at Guatano Bay? They should go and preaach these rights to BH, for animals do not and can not posess human rights.
SHOT UP OH YE AMNESTY WAHALA. who made you a judge and advocate over us. Remove the logs of woods in your eyes before you try removing the specks in ours. I wonder what you really stand for. I wish it was one of you or your close associates that suffer what innocent Nigerians suffer in the hands of Bolo Haram. Please stay out of our issues, seeing that you do not prefer solutions but only criticize , blind criticism for that matter.