Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday told Nigerian government to urgently address its failure to protect and provide education to an entire generation of children in the Northeast. A 91-page chilling report released to DAILY POST said the region has been devastated by 'years of Boko Haram atrocities and gross violations by the military'. The document
Amnesty International on Wednesday told Nigerian government to urgently address its failure to protect and provide education to an entire generation of children in the Northeast.
Joanne Mariner, Acting Director of Crisis Response at Amnesty International, lamented that the past decade of bitter conflict between Nigerian military and Boko Haram has been an assault on children. Citing the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, AI decried that Boko Haram continues to force parents to hand over boys and girls, under threat of death; continues to forcibly “marry” girls, young women, and continues to murder people who try to escape.
On military detention, the report said the United Nations told AI it had verified the release of 2,879 children from military detention since 2015, although it previously cited a higher figure of children detained between 2013 and 2019. It bemoaned that tens of thousands of detainees have been held in these conditions and that the situation, “so extreme that they constitute the war crime of torture”, remains the same even after mass releases in late 2019 and early 2020.
He added that 25 of them were repatriated to Niger Republic, while “603 clients are due to pass out in June 2020.”
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