An independent investigation committee set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has cleared the military of an allegation that it conducted forced abortion on thousands of women in the north-east.
byAn independent investigation committee set up by the National Human Rights Commission has cleared the military of an allegation that it conducted forced abortions on thousands of women in the north-east.
However, the panel indicted some soldiers for setting ablaze a woman and three children in Borno state in 2016.The findings of the committee led by Abdu Aboki, a former supreme court justice, was sequel to reporting that the military forced women to have at least 10,000 abortions between 2013 and 2021.
“For the abortion assault, the panel did not find evidence that the Nigerian Armed Forces committed a systematic, secret or policy driven abortions in north-east to the tune of 10,000,” Ogbonna said.“For smother and poison, the panel did not find the military culpable for the massacre of children, but the panel found the military culpable of infabticide and the killing of community members in a village in Marte LGA of Borno on the 16th of June 2016.
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