Nigeria: Trapped in the Cycle of Violence

Author:
Amnesty International
Publisher:
Amnesty International
Publication Date:
1 November 2012
Tags:
Nigeria, Arms and Military Affairs, Conflict, Peace and Security, Governance, Human Rights

Since 2009, acts of violence by the Islamist armed group known as Boko Haram have been carried out across northern and central Nigeria with increasing sophistication and deadliness. Nigeria’s security forces have perpetrated serious human rights violations in their response and hundreds of people accused of links to Boko Haram have been arbitrarily detained without  charge or trial and others have been extrajudicially executed or subjected to enforced disappearance.

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