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Incident between March 2012 and 14 March 2014 [+] Print this page

Location: Giwa Barracks, Jere, Borno [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Violation types: Enforced Disappearance [+]

Perpetrator classifications: Military [+]

Location


This incident took place in Giwa Barracks, Jere, Borno, Nigeria [+]

Description


According to Amnesty International: "Musa Kankara (not his real name), a 30-year-old butcher from Maiduguri, was arrested by JTF soldiers in March 2012 during a cordon-and-search operation in the custom area of Maiduguri. The military took his younger brother, Ali, as well, the family told Amnesty International. Their parents went looking for them at Giwa barracks, but were told not to come back again. From time to time, his family heard from released detainees that they were still alive. Three months after their arrest, one of the released detainees told the family that Ali had died in detention. Musa returned home on 14 March 2014, having escaped after the Giwa barracks attack. However, according to his relatives, that same day, Civilian JTF members and then soldiers came to his house and re arrested him. A Civilian JTF member said that they took him to Sector 8, a military station in Maiduguri. His brothers went there but could not see him; the soldiers refused to give them any information." [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
02 June 2015 Amnesty International Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands. War crimes committed by the Nigerian military. 44/1657/2015. 27 September 2018