According to Amnesty International: "On Friday 14 March, at 7 am Boko Haram members attacked the Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, Borno state and opened the cells to release the more than 1,000 detainees, who were arrested under suspicion of being members or sympathisers of Boko Haram. A video released by Boko Haram shows gunmen entering the Giwa military barracks, setting ablaze scores of vehicles in the compound, before releasing hundreds of people, including women, children. Many of those released looked frail and were barefooted. [snip] A human rights defender interviewed by Amnesty International said the detainees told him that after their cells were opened by Boko Haram, the detainees were given the option of either joining the attackers or going home. Many of the detainees decided to go home. Boko Haram is said to have taken some of their members who were detained and then left Maiduguri. Another resident at Jiddari Polo, in Maiduguri told Amnesty International that many of the detainees were unable to walk. He said many looked starved and frail. Mallam Ibrahim and one other resident in Mairi told Amnesty International that, less than an hour after the detainees left the barracks, two Hilux trucks filled with government soldiers came to the scene where the 56 former detainees were gathered. Mallam Ibrahim said:“[The soldiers] asked all of us to leave the area. The former detainees were all in the classroom. They started screaming ‘we are not Boko Haram. We are detainees!’ I and my other neighbours saw the soldiers take the former detainees to a nearby place called ‘no man’s land,’ behind the University of Maiduguri. We stood there and watched while the soldiers opened fire and killed the 56 people we had just given fruits and water. They were shot and killed in front of us. All of them. Just like that.” According to Mallam Ibrahim, among the 56 people executed by the army was a 15 year old boy. He said the boy told them he was arrested in May 2013 with sixteen other young boys between the ages of 15 and 19 years. He said: “The boy told us he was the only survivor to have come out [among the 17] of Giwa as all his colleagues had died in detention. He had just finished giving me the name and address of his mother when the soldiers arrived. He was killed with the others. I don’t know if I should tell his parents or not.”" ^[+]