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Amnesty International has said that the Boko Haram insurgents have killed many aged citizens at disproportionate levels due to their inability to flee attacks.

It noted that many villages in areas under Boko Haram control are populated by older people who are unable to flee or who choose to stay and continue working their land.

In a 67-page report titled, ‘My heart is in pain: Older people’s experience of conflict, displacement, and detention in North-East Nigeria’, the organisation disclosed that older people were killed both by the terrorist group and the military.


The report released on Monday, also revealed that humanitarian response got to them only as “an afterthought.”

The global human rights group said it reviewed more than 120 images of corpses brought from the barracks to a local mortuary, and spoke to individuals with insider knowledge who estimated that “15-25 per cent of those who have perished are older men.”

“This is disproportionately high, as older men appear to for no more than 4 per cent of the population in North-East Nigeria. In April 2017 alone, 166 corpses were transferred from Giwa to the mortuary,” the report stated.


It further noted that humanitarian agencies estimate that older people for around 150,000 of the 2.1 million people displaced by the conflict in North-East.

The research, carried out between November 2019 and October 2020, involved 62 older women and 71 older men affected by the conflict.

The Director of Crisis Response at Amnesty International, Joanne Mariner, said, “When Boko Haram has invaded towns and villages, older men and women have often been among the last to flee, leaving them particularly exposed to the armed group’s brutality and repression – amounting to war crimes and likely crimes against humanity.


“This has included torture, being forced to witness killings and abductions of their children, as well as looting resulting in extreme food insecurity.”

Speaking on the alleged killings by the military, she stated, “Nigeria’s military, in turn, has repeatedly shot older people to death in their own homes during raids on villages in Boko Haram-controlled areas.

“Thousands of older people have been denied dignity in hellish conditions in military detention, with many hundreds of them dying in squalor. These, too, amount to war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity.”


The report read, “In these villages, older people face threats from all sides. Boko Haram loots their property and often restricts older women’s movement, making it harder for families to earn money and feed themselves.

“Boko Haram also abducts or kills their children and grandchildren, and sometimes tortures or kills the older people themselves.”

Narrating her ordeal, an 80-year-old woman from a village in Michika local government area, Adamawa State, said, “Boko Haram asked why I was still around when others had run away… I told them it was my house and I was not scared of dying. Some of them said instead of killing me, they’d put me in permanent pain. They brought out their knife and stabbed me in my foot, leaving a big gash.”


Amnesty International said it found that many older people with limited mobility were unable to flee and have been shot and killed or seriously injured when soldiers sprayed bullets through houses.

“Others have burned to death inside their homes when the military torched villages perceived to Boko Haram,” the report added.

The military had yet to respond to the allegations as calls to the Defence Headquarters spokesman, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, on Tuesday, rang out.

He had yet to respond to an SMS seeking his reaction to the report.

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"Amnesty International said it found that many older people with limited mobility were unable to flee and have been shot and killed or seriously injured when soldiers sprayed bullets through houses.

“Others have burned to death inside their homes when the military torched villages perceived to Boko Haram,” the report added...."

The military is killing them while BH with their warped fanatical ideology does not even respect the elderly too hence they can shed their blood and kill them with no iota of remorse.Yet these are the killers government is granting amnesty.It's so painful.

The hands of Nigeria police and military are filled with innocent blood ! Lie mahammad will start calling it fake news...

Amnesty don come again.


Endsars no sell now na Boko Haram Dem come back for.....

Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright.. ...
The aged always at the receiving end of it all

Terrorism affects them ....even this Corona viruses affects the older people more
May God protect the aged

At this rate are boko and naija military not the same?!

Ok

Very bad

Do you know that most people in Adamawa are Christians? And this maybe same faith with Borno. Someone from there told me that in his community that only one family is a Muslim..

Hope the Fulanis are not giving Adamawa people Benue treatment?

last last everybody na scam. BH na scam, Army na scam, Amnesty na Scam

One day, and one bad news about the military.

Let me guess how they will spin this.
Lai will say they are not old but bedridden people who couldn't run.
Garba Shehu will say they are people with high BP who suffer heart attack when BH attacks
Femi Adesina will say they could have died 5 years ago if not for the grace of Buhari.
Zulum will say they died at a higher rate before Buhari came to power.
Buratai will say they could have died more if not for the religious seminars on doctrines they are giving the foot soldiers.
The Arny twitter will say AI is technically not part of Nigeria again as they have been expelled.

It's not today they started

okay

You are so blind to the reality engulfing this country call Nigeria.

Kyase:
Amnesty don come again.


Endsars no sell now na Boko Haram Dem come back for.....

I am confused right now @arrewa @thatfairguy, I thought Zulum and Northerners said the north is safe and Boko haram has been defeated? Also heard that those beaheaded were not farmers but Boko haram informant and now this news from A.I?

Who's telling the truth? If the North truly isn't safe then why do Northerners claim the North is safe? Are they sympathetic to the cause of Boko haram?

Nawa o

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it.

It just made me family friends I lost in mubi 2014

cynthia500:
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it.

Iberiberism

Between the military and Boko Haram I don't know who kills more than the other

Are this boko haram not Northerns,because am not understanding.




I thought northerns love themselves.

Dblaiz:
last last everybody na scam. BH na scam, Army na scam, Amnesty na Scam

I dey tell u my sista who we go believe

What's the difference between the two of them, they both leave the same trademark; sorrow, tears and blood. But Buhari love and value one more than the other. " Both of them are zombies".
Las Las this country na setup.

waleadeagb:
You are so blind to the reality engulfing this country call Nigeria.

Okay