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Nigeria: No Secret Graveyards in Northeast - Defence HQ
Leadership, 2 August 2019
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has debunked a report of a secret cemetery for soldiers killed by Boko Haram in the North East zone. Read more »
Nigerian Army Denies Secretly Burying 1,000 Soldiers
Defence Headquarters has dismissed reports that the military secretly dumped the remains of fallen heroes of the Boko Haram war in unmarked mass graves. U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal - citing diplomatic sources, a senior government official, families of some dead troops and a soldier stationed at Maimalari Barrack in Borno State - said the soldiers were buried in unmarked graves at night.
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Nigeria: Military Denies U.S. Newspaper Report On Secret Burial of Soldiers
Premium Times, 1 August 2019
The Nigerian military on Thursday pushed back against a report by the Wall Street Journal that the military had been secretly dumping the remains of fallen heroes of Boko Haram war… Read more »
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Nigeria: Atiku Reacts to Report On 'Secret Burial' of Nigerian Soldiers
Premium Times, 1 August 2019
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has expressed his shock over a report published by the Wall Street Journal that at least 1,000 Nigerian soldiers killed by the Boko… Read more »
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Nigeria: Alleged Soldiers' Secret Burial - Don't Dramatise Wall Street Journal Report, NDF to Atiku
Vanguard, 2 August 2019
The National Democratic Front (NDF) has asked Atiku Abubakar not to make a show of the Wall Street Journal report, alleging that thousands of soldiers were killed and buried… Read more »
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Nigeria: Atiku Calls for Probe As Military Denies Burying 1,000 Soldiers in Maiduguri Secret Graveyards
Vanguard, 2 August 2019
The Military High Command, yesterday, decried what it described as a figment of Wall Street Journal's imagination, its report that over one thousand soldiers killed in the… Read more »
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Its decade-long insurgency has continued to devastated the country. It has cost at least 27,000 lives, displaced about two million people and spawned an affiliate of the Islamic ... Read more »
