Human Rights Commissions say that as many as 1,000 Shias might have been killed earlier this week in by Nigerian troops.

In its report, The Human rights commission report said that the army has dug mass graves and has been putting the dead bodies of the massacre committed over the weekend.

It based its claim on photographs and testimonies that prove the army has buried hundreds of bodies after attacking Shias in Zaria, Kaduna state, last week.

The NGO's chairman, Massoud Shadjareh exclaimed appallingly that the international community cannot sit back and do nothing anymore.

The African Union, United Nations and the Commonwealth were asked to suspend Nigerian membership and privileges and to demand the release of all those detained.

The Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria said that Nigerian troops buried the bodies of hundreds of victims of a military massacre of Shia Muslims on Wednesday.


According to the Press Herald, details of the weekend violence in Zaria have been hardly uncovered because the three attacked areas of the northern town have been on lockdown with no one allowed to enter or leave.

Shia spokesman Ibrahim Musa claimed that soldiers took the bodies from the mortuary of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital and buried them in mass graves on Wednesday, without specifying the source of his information.

“The Nigerian army has desecrated our dead,” He said. “We hereby demand the location of the mass burial, and the interrogation of those who ordered the operation.”

Musa added further that on Monday soldiers had carried away around 200 bodies from around Zakzaky’s home without depositing them at the hospital mortuary.

The fate of Sheikh Ebrahim Zakzaky, the Leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement, is still unknown ever since he was forcibly detained from his house last week. It was reported that Sheikh Zakzaky suffered four bullet wounds while being detained.

According to Sahara Reports who had contacted Sheikh Zakzaky’s son for answers, Sheikh Zakzaky’s family have not heard from him ever since he was detained on Sunday. However, the latter said that a military official assured the family that their patriarch is “safe and well”.

This son is the only one of Sheikh Zakzaky’s children who is not imprisoned nor dead, were three of his brothers have been killed earlier.

Also, in an interview with Press TV, Nusaiba Zakzaky, daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, said that the death toll could be around 450 people. However she added that it was rising and could get to around 1,000.

Later on the daw of Saturday, Boko Haram gunmen launched an attack on the hometown of Nigeria's army chief, triggering a fierce gun battle with the troops with no casualties. This caused people living there to flee to Miringa, taking shelter in a primary school according to locals, says AFP.

Nigeria has suffered from Boko Haram, which had declared its affiliation to ISIS, ever since 2009. Their terrorism has killed some 17,000 and displaced around 2.6 million people since then, according to AFP numbers.

December 31, has been given by the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to the military as a deadline to crush this uprising.


Source: http://ahtribune.com/human-rights/276-shia-mass-graves-nigeria.html

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GEJ is killing the North and bla bla bla. Who is killing the north now? Thank God those who voted the change are also feeling the heat of the economy and the high rate of human right abuse.

Austin4lif:
GEJ is killing the North and bla bla bla. Who is killing the north now? Thank God those who voted the change are also feeling the heat of the economy and the high rate of human right abuse.

must we all repeat d same mistakes over nd over again?
d news up dia did nt even tell u dat it was Buhari dat carried d gun.
lets learn nt to point blaming fingers all d time

OMG! My pity
GEJ has set precedence
Human life is no longer valued
The army are as brutal as when K. Minimah was COAS
Total disregard and abuse to human rights.
NG Military needs re-orientation

Hmmmm, nawa o. I tire for this country, Lord have mercy.

oyatmicah:

must we all repeat d same mistakes over nd over again?
d news up dia did nt even tell u dat it was Buhari dat carried d gun.
lets learn nt to point blaming fingers all d time

who is commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces and why has he been criminally silent over this genocide ? A thousand people murdered at midnight just because they blocked main road earlier in the morning. It's Shiites today, yesterday it was IPOB, tomorrow it might just be you. Just be patient my brother

hmm...
my God