The Nigerian military has burned and forcibly displaced entire villages in response to a recent escalation in attacks by the armed group Boko Haram, Amnesty International said today, based on interviews with affected villagers in Borno State and satellite data analysis.
Amnesty International interviewed 12 women and men forced to flee their homes on 3 and 4 January 2020 from three villages near the Maiduguri-Damaturu road, between Jakana and Mainok in Borno State. The organization also reviewed fire data from remote satellite sensing, which indicates several large fires burning on and around 3 January in that area. Satellite imagery of Bukarti, Ngariri, and Matiri shows almost every structure was razed.
The next day, on 4 January, soldiers went to Ngariri, a village across the main road from Bukarti, according to three residents of Ngariri. Soldiers assembled primarily older women and men, as younger adults had already fled to surrounding farmland, and forced them aboard a truck that took them to Maiduguri. Ngariri was then razed.
“Everything was burned, even our food – it could feed [my family] for two years,” said another man, around 30, who snuck back weeks later to see the destruction. “Our clothes, our food, our crops, our kettles. Even the trolley we used for getting water. Only the metal dishes are there, but everything else is burned.”
Amnesty is boko haram sponsors
Amnesty has come again! I have never heard them blame BH for their atrocities. What if the villagers are hiding the insurgents, won't they be complicit?
AmnestyNigeria is tacitly supporting insurgency in Nigeria.
The villagers harbored BOKO HARAM elements... Since you allow them to blend for gains, you share the pain .
This amnesty pple shld leave 🇳🇬, don't get how they can b silent when BH recks havoc but open their dirty mouths when Nigerian army does anything. AmnestyNigeria e go red for una soon
God dey...
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