Jos — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that police and the army killed 133 people because of the shoot-at-sight order given to them by the Plateau State Governor David Jonah Jang during the November 2008 crisis that followed the local government elections.

The Human Rights Watch Researcher Eric Guttschuss yesterday told the Abisoye panel that," Majority of the alleged killing by military and mobile policemen took place on November 29, 2008 when Governor David Jang gave a shoot-at-sight order and we recorded 133 alleged arbitrarily killings by security forces that took place that day."

He advised the Federal Government to address the root cause of the violence and to get a bill banning all forms of discrimination against non indigenes on any matter, not directly related to traditional leadership and cultural activities.

Speaking in this same vein, the Secretary of the First Aid Group of Jama'atul Nasril Islam Jos North Local Government chapter Barrister Lawal Ishaq told the panel that 90 percent of the people who lost their lives during the crises was as a result of gun shots from security agents. Ishaq said bullets were extracted from the bodies of most of the victims and that they recovered empty shells of bullets and canisters which they handed over to the special investigation panel set up by the Inspector General of Police under the Force Criminal Investigation Department in Abuja for further investigation.