The Nigerian military has accused human rights organisation, Amnesty International (AI), of fabricating its latest report about extrajudicial killings and torture of 240 people in the country's north-east and 177 pro-Biafran agitators.
In a statement signed by acting director defence information, Rabe Abubakar, a brigadier general, the military described the report as a continuation of AI's "series of spurious fabrications aimed at tarnishing the good image of the Nigerian military."
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