The army says it carried out the raids after Shias set up roadblocks during a religious ceremony three days earlier, stopped the convoy of Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai and attempted to assassinate him.
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“At best it was a brutal overreaction and at worst it was a planned attack on the minority Shiite group”.
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The trouble began Saturday, when thousands of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, a pro-Iranian Shia group, held a march in Zaria, in Kaduna State, to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed. Ibrahim Musa, the IMN spokesman, said 40 of the wounded, including its leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, risk losing their lives in police and military custody, where they are being denied medical treatment.
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A statement quoting Daniel Bekele Africa director at Human Rights Watch said: “the killing of hundreds of Shia Muslim members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), by Nigerian army soldiers from December 12 to 14, 2015, appears to have been wholly unjustified”.
Multiple witnesses interviewed separately by Human Rights Watch at different locations in Kaduna and Zaria, on December 17 and 18, said that without any provocation, the soldiers fired on people coming out of the mosque, initially killing an estimated five people and injuring others, including children attending classes at the center.
Another 191 suspects have been charged with offences including obstruction of highways, possession of weapons and attacking security agents, he said.
“At least 300 Shia sect members, and likely many more, were killed and hundreds more injured, according to witnesses in at least two of the sites and a hospital source”, the group said.
He also said the Abuja government troops destroyed a school and a shrine belonging to the movement on Monday.
Solomon Arase, the Inspector-General of Police, has revealed when and how Shitte Muslims in detention in connection with the recent violence in Zaria, Kaduna state, can be visited by their friends, relatives and lawyers.
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Militant Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in its pursuit of an Islamic state, and has attacked the IMN.
