Navy killed 150 seasoned-Biafra activists –Amnesty

Owerri - The contemporary reviews of the Amnesty international (AI) have revealed how no fewer than a hundred and fifty pro-Biafra protesters within the South East were killed
with the aid of the Nigerian protection forces led with the aid of the military.

The organization, in a press statement on Wednesday, based its discern on analysed 87 videos, 122 pictures and 146 eyewitness tales relating to demonstrations and different amassed among August 2015 and August 2016.

The statement study: ‘’The Nigerian safety forces, led via the army, launched into a chilling marketing campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting within the deaths of at least one hundred fifty non violent pro-Biafra protesters within the south east of the us of a," according to an research with the aid of Amnesty international.


To be had records continuously confirmed that the Nigerian army fired live ammunition with little or no warning to disperse crowds.

AI additionally said it discovered proof of mass extrajudicial executions with the aid of safety forces, inclusive of at the least 60 people shot lifeless inside the space of  days in connection with occasions to mark Biafra Remembrance Day.

“This deadly repression of pro-Biafra activists is similarly stoking tensions within the South-east of Nigeria. This reckless and trigger-satisfied technique to crowd manipulate has brought about as a minimum 150 deaths and we worry the actual general is probably far better,” stated Makmid Kamara, intervening time Director of Amnesty global Nigeria
.

“The Nigerian authorities’s decision to ship within the navy to respond to pro-Biafra activities seems to be in massive component guilty for this immoderate bloodshed. The government need to without delay release an impartial investigation and produce the perpetrators to e book.”