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World human rights body, Amnesty International, has claimed that evidence abounds that could make the International Criminal Court probe senior Nigerian military officers for war crimes in their battle against the Boko Haram militants.
It announced the case against five senior officers on Wednesday in a new 133-page report based on hundreds of interviews, including military sources and leaked defence ministry documents.
The allegations were predicated on thousands of people which the body claimed were extra-judicially murdered by the security forces and its civilian vigilante allies, as well as crimes against those held in military custody.
“In the course of security operations against Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria, Nigerian military forces have extra-judicially executed more than 1,200 people; they have arbitrarily arrested at least 20,000 people, mostly young men and boys,” the report said.
It added that Nigerian forces “have committed countless acts of torture; hundreds, if not thousands, of Nigerians have become victims of enforced disappearance; and at least 7,000 people have died in military detention as a result of starvation, extreme overcrowding and denial of medical assistance”.
AI called for army commanders based in the northeast to be “investigated for potential responsibility for war crimes of murder, enforced disappearances and torture,” and that top service chiefs in Abuja “should be investigated for their potential command responsibility for crimes committed by their subordinates given that they knew or should have known about the commission of the crimes, and failed to take adequate action”.
Hague-based ICC has opened a preliminary investigation into the Boko Haram conflict, which Amnesty claimed has led to the death of no fewer than 17,000 people since 2009. The tribunal has previously said there was insufficient evidence tying Nigeria’s military to systematic and orchestrated atrocities targeting civilians.
The report, which includes new claims on specific acts of murder committed by Nigerian soldiers in the northeast, however noted that, “Amnesty International believes that the evidence contained in this report and submitted separately to the (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor is sufficient to reopen this issue.”
Amnesty International went on to state that it had separately shared its evidence with the ICC prosecutor’s office.