The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has advised the Southeastern youths to end the war against security operatives in the region.

DAILY POST reports that scores of security operatives in the region have been killed recently following the face-off between the operatives and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Several security formations and other government properties, including some offices belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and court buildings have been destroyed.

However, in a statement on Sunday, HURIWA urged the assailants to embrace peace stressing that “only an insane child will put his father’s house on fire over certain grievances caused by external forces who stay far away from his father’s house”.

“Can we in all honesty identify those causing the destruction of strategic assets built in the South East which are there to serve the interest of the South East of Nigeria? Can we all work to put an end to this insanity of killing police officers who are mostly our own people? Can we stop the destruction of government facilities which belong to the South East of Nigeria?”

The statement also condemned the alleged mass arrest of youths by the Imo State Police Command at the scene of crime particularly when the unknown gunmen attacked a certain area in the state.

HURIWA described the arrest as “outrageous, reprehensible, despicable and intolerable”.

The rights group lamented that in the twenty-first century, the Commissioner of Police who ought to be a professionally trained operative, can be heard confirming that indeed he sent out his armed operatives to the market square to round up any able-bodied men and boys seen within the vicinity of the crime scene in which two operatives of the Air Force were killed in an unprovoked and callous manner.