The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to investigate the crimes committed by the Boko Haram Sect and Nigerian Military in the North-Eastern part of the country.
Al-Hussein said he had seen allegations of mass executions, rape and amputations of children committed by Boko Haram sect.
Al-Hussein said “Civilians in northeast Nigeria have been living through horrifying acts of cruelty and violence by Boko Haram. These include wanton killings, summary executions, forced participation in military operations – including the use of children to detonate bombs, forced labour, forced marriage and sexual violence, including rape.
“We have reports of children who were suspected of theft and had their hands amputated, of a man stoned to death on accusations of fornication, mass executions of captives whose hands and legs were bound and who were dumped into rivers and wells.
“At least 1,000 people, possibly many more, were brutally killed by Boko Haram in Mararaba Madagali in Adamawa State in late 2014.
“When the villagers gathered, the insurgents opened fire. The U.N. Human Rights Office has also received a video recording of an execution, allegedly of a girl who refused to convert to Islam.
“The man said he spent five days without food or water, as detainees drank the urine of others to quench their thirst. He claimed that there was an average of five deaths per day in the facility.
Amnesty International had earlier released a report titled “Stars on their Shoulders, Blood on their Hands,” the report accused commanders of the Nigerian military of human rights abuse in the war against Boko Haram and called for their prosecution at the War Crime Tribunal in The Hague.
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