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Incident between 8 June 2012 and 1 November 2012 [+] Print this page

Location: Maiduguri [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Violation types: Enforced Disappearance [+]

Location


This incident took place in Maiduguri, Nigeria [+]

Description


According to Amnesty International: "L.A., a tailor, was arrested by the JTF at his house in Bayan quarters, Maiduguri, on 8 June 2012. A family member told Amnesty International “I thought they took him to Giwa barracks. But he wasn’t there. I went to Crack. They said we haven’t seen him and suggested I go to another station. ... I’ve been looking for the past 10 days. I went to all the barracks. I went to Giwa three times. They kept telling me there is no one like him there... I have been going around with his ID. One policeman I know, I called on him, [to help me find out what happened]... he asked a friend who was within that team [that arrested L.A.], the policeman told me the man arrested that day, he and two others were taken very close to [the family’s] area, to Lambu (irrigation) area. They were fired [shot and killed]...he told us to go to the mortuary. I went there...the mortuary attendant said they don’t keep the bodies for more than 10 days and that they buried nine corpses the day before yesterday.” Several people, including members of the security forces, subsequently told the family, off the record, that L.A. had been killed but without a body the family say they cannot be certain that he is dead." [+]

Perpetrator units

Name Other Names Classification
Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order I [+] JTF
JTF ORO
JTF Operation Restore Order
JTF in Borno State
JTF in Maiduguri, Borno State
JTORO
Joint Special Task Force in Maiduguri
Joint TASK Force MAIDUGURI
Joint Task Force (JTF) tagged "Operation Restore Peace"
Joint Task Force in Borno
Joint Task Force in Borno State
Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State
Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order
ORO I
operation restore peace
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Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
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Police [+]
State Security Service (Internal Security) [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
01 November 2012 Amnesty International Trapped in the Cycle of Violence. AFR 44/043/2012. 27 September 2018