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Eugene

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Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:13 AM Feb 2016

Report: Nigeria Reinstates General Implicated in Mass Murder

Source: Associated Press

Report: Nigeria Reinstates General Implicated in Mass Murder

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria — Jan 31, 2016, 7:06 PM ET

Nigeria has reinstated a general implicated in mass murder, underlining the government's "monumental failure" to stamp out impunity for war crimes, Amnesty International said Monday.

The London-based rights group last year called for an investigation of nine senior commanders including Maj. Gen. Ahmadu Mohammed for possible criminal responsibility for war crimes including the deaths of more than 8,000 detainees since 2011. Mohammed was commanding officer when soldiers killed around 640 unarmed detainees after Boko Haram extremists attacked Giwa barracks in northeast Maiduguri city, according to Amnesty.

President Muhammadu Buhari in June promised to investigate the allegations and deal with all alleged abuses by the military, but nothing has been done.

Mohammed was the commander of the war theater when Boko Haram took control of a large swath of Nigeria's northeast where the extremists declared an Islamic caliphate, and when the insurgents kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok town. Dozens escaped on their own as the army failed to send a rescue mission. More than 200 girls remain missing.

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