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The Nigerian Army has vehemently refuted the report by a British newspaper which stated that 4000 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect had died in military custody.
A report credited to a British newspaper, Daily Independent, had claimed that Nigerian soldiers committed war crimes by terrorising local residents in areas worst-hit by Boko Haram insurgency.
In a terse rebuttal posted on its website on Monday, the Defence Headquarters accused the British newspaper of disdain and bias against Nigeria.
The statement read in part, “The report credited to the British Newspaper, Daily Independent, UK in which it claimed that Nigerian government “committed war crimes by terrorising some of its citizens in the war against insurgency” is to say the least, unduly judgmental and quite consistent with the disdain and bias with which a section of the western media reports Africa.
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Source: #PUNCH
A report credited to a British newspaper, Daily Independent, had claimed that Nigerian soldiers committed war crimes by terrorising local residents in areas worst-hit by Boko Haram insurgency.
In a terse rebuttal posted on its website on Monday, the Defence Headquarters accused the British newspaper of disdain and bias against Nigeria.
The statement read in part, “The report credited to the British Newspaper, Daily Independent, UK in which it claimed that Nigerian government “committed war crimes by terrorising some of its citizens in the war against insurgency” is to say the least, unduly judgmental and quite consistent with the disdain and bias with which a section of the western media reports Africa.
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Source: #PUNCH
