According to Human Rights Watch: “Human Rights Watch interviewed two police officers separately who witnessed a soldier summarily execute an unarmed man at the Laranto Divisional Police Headquarters. The incident took place on the morning of Friday, November 28. One of the police officers described to Human Rights Watch what he saw that day: “I was assigned to the police station by the Katako market. A police inspector arrested a Hausa man and brought him to the front of the police station. One of the soldiers asked the inspector what the man had done. The inspector said that he had found him with a cutlass. The soldier then shot him in the chest. This happened on Friday around 11 a.m. I saw it. The acting DPO [divisional police officer] was also present. After shooting the man, the soldier said, “Anybody you see with a cutlass, you shoot him.” [+]
Publication Date | Publisher | Publication Title | Access Date | Archive Link |
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July 2009 | Human Rights Watch | Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces: Submission to the Investigative Bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 Violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria | 27 September 2018 |