Nigeria: No Justice For Kaduna Killings

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http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/07/nigeria072203.htm

(Abuja, July 22, 2003) – Not a single member of the Nigerian police or security forces has been charged with dozens of killings during the “Miss World” riots in Kaduna last November, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

The 32-page report, “The ‘Miss World riots': continued impunity for killings in Kaduna,” provides detailed eyewitness accounts of how soldiers and police killed people in cold blood between November 21 and 23, during an operation intended to restore law and order.

One of the most serious cases described in the report is the November 22 execution of eight men by a group of police and military, led by a member of a local defense force. Eyewitnesses told Human Rights Watch how the perpetrators picked out their victims one by one, tied them together, led them to a rubbish dump by a riverside and shot them dead at close range.

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