A coalition of human rights and pro-democracy organization has alleged that there has been silent genocide in Nigeria in the last 17- year old second republic, in which about 101, 500 defenceless Nigerians were killed extra-judicially.
The South East based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) made this allegation yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra state during a briefing to mark this year’s 68th anniversary of the declaration of human rights.
Chairman of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the International Society for the Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) Nze Emeka Umeagbalasi, who spoke for the group said the high political terror and militarization policies of the Muhammed Buhari administration has led to the emergence of 18 new armed opposition groups and upsurge in the inflow of illicit small arms and light weapons in non-state actor hands, which has risen to an all high of 5million in 2016.
The group described killing outside the law to include killing people who were taken into detention alive, killing of unarmed and defenseless citizens engaging in church vigils and street protest and processions as well as electoral killings.
Other killings, according to the group, include “military invasion and massacre of unarmed and defenseless villagers, raiding and killing by security forces of unarmed and defenceless persons in their homes,churches, mosques, and markets, any form of killings of civilians or non-combatants by armed opposition groups in war and peace times, killings arising from inter-communal and religious violence particularly as they concern unarmed and defenceless citizens.
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