The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has inaugurated a five-man panel to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the clash between the Nigerian Army and members of the Shiite Islamic sect in Zaria.
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Members of the Nigeria Senate adhoc committee on Zaria killings would meet with the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, Daily Trust reported.
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The rights group, which put the toll at over 1,000, said the Nigerian military had secretly buried hundreds of bodies in the graves after storming the house of the Shia cleric.
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The New York-based group says the army’s version “just doesn’t stack up”, the Associated Press reported.
“In an internal military document seen by Human Rights Watch, the army said protesters appeared to be taking up positions near the back of the convoy”.
Rather than yield to entreaties by army officers to open the road, the sect’s followers, perhaps mindful of the harsh crackdown of the security forces on their members in the past took hostile measures which the Army read as an attempt on the life of their chief, Buratai.
Another 191 suspects have been charged with offences including obstruction of highways, possession of weapons and attacking security agents, he said. He also said the Abuja government troops destroyed a school and a shrine belonging to the movement on Monday.
A visit to the website – www.courtofappeal.gov.ng- will redirect you to a cached page, which has on it, a message from the hackers to the Nigerian government and other governments “killing Muslims and innocent people”.
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“The history of the circumstances that engendered the outbreak of militant insurgency in the past – with cataclysmic consequences that Nigeria is yet to recover from – should not be allowed to repeat itself”, said a statement from the sultan, who is president of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.
