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NIGERIA: War Crimes Probe Rejected

NIGERIA: War Crimes Probe Rejected The army exonerates retired officers indicted by Amnesty International.Nigeria's military has rejected a call for senior army officers to be investigated for possible war crimes in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists.Amnesty International named six serving or retired army officers whom it said should be probed to establish whether they were responsible for murder, torture and disappearances.It alleged that more than 1,200 people had been extra‐judicially killed and thousands more arbitrarily arrested during the bloody, eight‐year conflict.But the army's chief of civilian‐military affairs, Major General Nuhu Angbazo, told reporters in Abuja on June 14th there was “no evidence” against any of the named commanders.Angbazo said the findings were contained in the report of a board of inquiry, comprising seven military officers and two lawyers, which was set up to look into the claims.Their report has not been published in full.Amnesty's allegations were contained in a 133‐page report “Stars on their Shoulders. Blood on their Hands”, published in June 2015.Similar allegations made in the past have typically been dismissed but President Muhammadu Buhari, who was just one month into office at the time, vowed to look into the claims.Separate claims from Human Rights Watch (HRW) of extra‐judicial killings, rape and sexual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2017.07745.x
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Abstract

The army exonerates retired officers indicted by Amnesty International.Nigeria's military has rejected a call for senior army officers to be investigated for possible war crimes in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists.Amnesty International named six serving or retired army officers whom it said should be probed to establish whether they were responsible for murder, torture and disappearances.It alleged that more than 1,200 people had been extra‐judicially killed and thousands more arbitrarily arrested during the bloody, eight‐year conflict.But the army's chief of civilian‐military affairs, Major General Nuhu Angbazo, told reporters in Abuja on June 14th there was “no evidence” against any of the named commanders.Angbazo said the findings were contained in the report of a board of inquiry, comprising seven military officers and two lawyers, which was set up to look into the claims.Their report has not been published in full.Amnesty's allegations were contained in a 133‐page report “Stars on their Shoulders. Blood on their Hands”, published in June 2015.Similar allegations made in the past have typically been dismissed but President Muhammadu Buhari, who was just one month into office at the time, vowed to look into the claims.Separate claims from Human Rights Watch (HRW) of extra‐judicial killings, rape and sexual

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2017

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