The International Society for Civil Rights and Rule of Law (Intersociety) presented a report alleging that security forces and local vigilante groups killed over 32,300 unarmed civilians in southeastern Nigeria over the past nine years. The report also claims that security forces extorted about N3 trillion from roadblocks during this period. The report, titled 'Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In Eastern Nigeria', highlights numerous human rights abuses including unlawful detention, torture, forced disappearances, and the displacement of thousands of people.
A civil rights group, the International Society for Civil Rights and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has alleged that security forces and local vigilante groups killed over 32,300 unarmed civilians across the South-East within the past nine years. The group while presenting a special report also claimed that security forces extorted about N3 trillion at roadblocks within the same period.
It said that over 300 Igbo communities were raided within the same period and 6,000 civilian houses were razed, 180,000 displaced, one million frightened and forced to abandon their homes and flee.
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