The allegations come amid fears that the violent clashes between the Shiite group and Nigeria’s army will unleash a new Islamic threat in a country still battling Boko Haram militants.
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The protesters carrying placards and banners raised slogans against the Nigerian government and appealed worldwide human rights organizations and United Nations to take note of the massacre of the Muslims.
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Lemm, 45, lived in suburban West Harrison with his wife, Christine, and two children, a teenage daughter and a young son. Louis Bonacasa of Manorville, New York, was on his fourth tour of duty, his mother told CNN.
“It is the highest act of cruelty that despite killing hundreds of people in cold blood, their grieving families were neither allowed access to the bodies nor allowed to give them proper burial”.
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The New York-based group says the army’s version “just doesn’t stack up”, the Associated Press reported. “At best it was a brutal overreaction and at worst it was a planned attack on the minority Shia group”, the Human Rights Watch has said.
The HRW claimed its findings were derived from interviews granted by 16 witnesses to the killings and five others, including local authorities, who said the soldiers fired on the sect’s members at three locations in Zaria.
Nigerian Shia Muslims wounded in military raids earlier this month are dying in detention due to a lack of medical care, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) says.
The HRW said Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has announced the establishment of a state judicial commission of inquiry into the incident while the president has been silent over the deaths of the Shia members.
Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, charged Kaduna state government has taken over from the military in destroying property of the movement, estimated to have 3 million followers.
“Igbo Mandate Congress views with outrage a situation whereby out of eightchildren of a religious leader, six were killed by the Nigerian Army over incidences which patience and dialogue could have resolved”.
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Boko Haram re-emerged as a much more violent entity after security forces attacked their mosque and compound and killed some 700 people in 2009.
