In international human rights law, a forced disappearance(or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

According to theRome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as acrime against humanityand, thus, is not subject to astatute of limitations. On 20 December 2006, theUnited Nations General Assemblyadopted theInternational Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Often, forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case isabducted, illegallydetainedand often tortured during interrogation, and killed, with the body hidden. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of to escape discovery so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder hasplausible deniability, as nobody can provide evidence of the victim's death.

"Disappearing" political rivals is also a way for regimes to engender feelings of complicity in populations. The difficulty of publicly fighting a government that murders in secret can result in widespread pretense that everything is normal, as it did in the dirty War in Argentina.

Human rights law

In international human rights law, disappearances at the hands of the state have been codified as "enforced" or"forced disappearances" since the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. For example, the Rome Statute establishing the international Criminal Court defines enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity, and the practice is specifically addressed by the OAS's inter american Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons. There is also some authority indicating that enforced disappearances occurring during armed conflict, such as the Third Reich's Night and Fog program, may constitute war crimes.

In February 1980 the United Nations established the working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, "the first United Nations human rights thematic mechanism to be established with a universal mandate." Its main task "is to assist families in determining the fate or whereabouts of their family members who are reportedly disappeared." In August 2014, the Working Group reported 43,250 unresolved cases of disappearances in 88 different States.

The international Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2006, also states that the widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearances constitutes a crime against humanity. It gives victim's families the right to seek reparations, and to demand the truth about the disappearance of their loved ones. The Convention provides for the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance, as well as the right for the relatives of the disappeared person to know the truth. The Convention contains several provisions concerning prevention, investigation and sanctioning of this crime, as well as the rights of victims and their relatives, and the wrongful removal of children born during their captivity. The Convention further sets forth the obligation of international co-operation, both in the suppression of the practice, and in dealing with humanitarian aspects related to the crime. The Convention establishes a Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which will be charged with important and innovative functions of monitoring and protection at international level. Currently, an international campaign of the international Coalition against Enforced Disappearances is working towards universal ratification of the Convention.

Disappearances work on two levels: not only do they silence opponents and critics who have disappeared, but they also create uncertainty and fear in the wider community, silencing others who would oppose and criticise. Disappearances entail the violation of many fundamental human rights. For the disappeared person, these include the right to liberty, the right to personal security and humane treatment (including freedom from torture), the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel and to equal protection under the law, and the right of presumption of innocence among others. Their families, who often spend the rest of their lives searching for information on the disappeared, are also victims.

[b]Where is Nnamdi Kanu?[\b]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3793223858

Who ever is using these tactics against the IPOB members or people from the south East Is an old man whose committing an international crime and doesn't know it has been outlawed by the UN.

6 Days ago Bruce Fein wrote this

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59cd2b79e4b0149549227e1e

amnesty international has also reported about the kidnappings and killings of the Nigerian Government

http://saharareporters.com/2017/08/30/nigerian-government-forcibly-kidnap-hundreds-instill-fear-among-populace-says-amnesty

a couple of months back a governor said this about the Nigerian military police

http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/13/police-operatives-responsible-kidnapping-armed-robbery-rivers-wike/

the Nigerian government has killed & buried so many people in the south east but the most prominent is Nnamdi kanu and his family and if they don't provide him on October 17th the world will ask them.

I THOUGHT IPOB WAS READY FOR WAR MILITARY JUST PLAY PASS YOUR AREA UNA THEY COMPLAIN

richeeyo:
I THOUGHT IPOB WAS READY FOR WAR
MILITARY JUST PLAY PASS YOUR AREA UNA THEY COMPLAIN

when did IPOB tell you something like that, what news do you listen to?

please be serious.

richeeyo:
I THOUGHT IPOB WAS READY FOR WAR
MILITARY JUST PLAY PASS YOUR AREA UNA THEY COMPLAIN

guy answer me

The southeast people will never fall into the temptation of carrying guns,terrorism is not in their DNA .

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nnorth-east/245010-army-chief-commissions-human-rights-office-maiduguri.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Channel your grievances to this New Human Rights Office Commissioned by Buratai in Maiduguri

diegwu01:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nnorth-east/245010-army-chief-commissions-human-rights-office-maiduguri.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Channel your grievances to this New Human Rights Office Commissioned by Buratai in Maiduguri

this is in maiduguri.

cooldrinks:


this is in maiduguri.

I know, its just 21hrs away from the south east by road

hmm

magoo10:
The southeast people will never fall into the temptation of carrying guns,terrorism is not in their DNA .

True. The Nigerian terrorist organisation called the Nigerian Army hoped to use operation Python dance to provoke our people into taking up arms but they failed woefully

gidgiddy:


True. The Nigerian terrorist organisation called the Nigerian Army hoped to use operation Python dance to provoke our people into taking up arms but they failed woefully

they have failed,they want to turn the southeast to Northeast that have been deliberately ravaged by boko haram.

2 days to go

These IPOB terrorists will not just rest, isn't it obvious to them already that their IPOB Biafra is already defeated or do they want Nnamdi kanu himself to come and tell them?

Yyeske:
These IPOB terrorists will not just rest, isn't it obvious to them already that their IPOB Biafra is already defeated or do they want Nnamdi kanu himself to come and tell them?

egbe eligwe gbagbue GI onye iberibe

Long story. You would have to provide proof that the army abducted him first, as at now the official position is the dilector is in hiding

adeolakemi:
egbe eligwe gbagbue GI onye iberibe

Are you that pained?

GoroTango:
Long story. You would have to provide proof that the army abducted him first, as at now the official position is the dilector is in hiding

End of discussion, kanu played into Buhari's trap.

Yyeske:
End of discussion, kanu played into Buhari's trap.

what about Tuesday

Yyeske:
These IPOB terrorists will not just rest, isn't it obvious to them already that their IPOB Biafra is already defeated or do they want Nnamdi kanu himself to come and tell them?

Isi gi can never be flat ...only isi oka will reason like you

Igbo wanna be....November 18th on my mind

this is the dday

ghis is the dday