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Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amnesty International (AI) has called connected the Nigerian applicable authorities to emergence up and code the alarming information situation successful the south-east portion of the country, saying 1,844 radical person been killed successful the country betwixt January 2021 and June 2023.
To this end, the enactment urged the authorities to guarantee a transparent, impartial and effectual probe of killings, assassinations, enforced disappearances and different atrocities committed by authorities and non-state actors since August 2015 successful the geo governmental zone.
Director of Amnesty International, Nigeria, Isa Sanusi made the telephone connected Tuesday successful Enugu during the overview of a study of the enactment entitled ” A Decade of Impunity : Attacks and Unlawful Killings successful South-East Nigeria”
The radical noted that the persistent nonaccomplishment of the authorities to code the information situation successful the country’s South-East portion has created a free-for-all reign of impunity successful which galore authorities and non-state actors person committed superior quality rights violations and killed astatine slightest 1,844 radical betwixt January 2021 and June 2023.
“The study of A Decade of Impunity: Attacks and Unlawful Killings successful Southeast Nigeria, which documents unlawful killings, torture, enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests astatine the hands of rampaging gunmen, state-backed paramilitary outfits, vigilante, transgression gangs and cults groups successful the South-East portion provides the authorities with capable leads to unfastened an probe that volition extremity the impunity and supply victims with justice.
“The Nigerian authorities’ brutal clampdown connected pro-Biafra protests from August 2015 plunged the South-East portion into an endless rhythm of bloodshed, which has created a clime of fearfulness and near galore communities vulnerable. Assassinations of salient personalities and attacks connected highways, information unit and facilities are chilling reminders of the region’s insecurity,” said Isa Sanusi, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria.
“The study is based connected interviews with 100 people, including survivors, victims’ relatives, civilian nine members, lawyers, accepted leaders, and spiritual leaders. Amnesty International besides conducted probe missions to Owerri successful Imo state, Asaba successful Delta state, Obosi successful Anambra state, and Enugu successful Enugu authorities betwixt April 2023 to November 2023” helium stated.
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