Amnesty International has said that Boko Haram has killed many aged citizens at disproportionate levels due to their feeble state to flee attacks.
In a 67-page report it released titled 'My heart is in pain: Older people's experience of conflict, displacement, and detention in Northeast Nigeria', the organisation disclosed that older people were killed both in the hands of Boko Haram and the Nigerian military.
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