Human Rights Watch on Wednesday morning said the army attack on Shia members in Zaria was unjustified and asked for an independent and impartial probe of the incidence.
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Nigerian soldiers killed “at least 300” members of the radical Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) earlier in December when they fired “without any provocation”, said the New York-based rights watchdog in a statement.
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“The Nigerian military’s version of events does not stack up”, the organization’s Africa director, Daniel Bekele, said in the report.
The Shiite group’s leader, Iran-influenced Ibraheem Zakzaky who dresses like an ayatollah, suffered four bullet wounds, according to the family doctor, and is among scores detained.
It further stated that Human Rights Watch interviewed 16 witnesses to the killings and five others, including local authorities, who said that Nigerian army soldiers fired on Shia Muslim members of the group at three locations in Zaria, in northern Nigeria.
As many as 1,000 people may have been killed over December 12-14.
The Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria warned on Tuesday that Nigerian Shiites wounded in military raids are dying in military and police detention because they are being denied medical care.
Describing the silence of the Presidency on the matter as shocking, the HRW said Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai following the incident immediately announced the establishment of a state judicial commission of inquiry to look in to the clash.
Another 191 suspects have been charged with offences including obstruction of highways, possession of weapons and attacking security agents, he said.
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He said they had made attempts to meet with leaders of the sect but to no avail as they could not trace any of them, saying they even sent a delegation of members to Zaria for that goal but in vain.
