According to Human Rights Watch: "Human Rights Watch interviewed a witness who described seeing two soldiers beat and rape a woman, who was his neighbor, during a night raid in the Kaleri neighborhood of Maiduguri on July 9, 2011. He said the alleged rape occurred after soldiers had burned homes and vehicles and shot and killed men in the neighborhood, including the woman’s husband: I saw two soldiers beat a woman in her compound. They then raped her—one after the other. It was very close to where I was hiding…. She lay there until the morning when people came to carry her to hospital. They have since taken the woman to the village for treatment. Because of shame she can’t come back." [+]
Publication Date | Publisher | Publication Title | Access Date | Archive Link |
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11 October 2012 | Human Rights Watch | Spiraling Violence: Boko Haram Attacks and Security Force Abuses in Nigeria. | 27 September 2018 |