{"id":62352,"date":"2018-05-24T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62352"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:54:30","slug":"amnesty-international-accuses-nigerian-soldiers-of-raping-boko-haram-escapees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/amnesty-international-accuses-nigerian-soldiers-of-raping-boko-haram-escapees\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Accuses Nigerian Soldiers of Raping Boko Haram Escapees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerian soldiers and self-defense forces have raped women who were<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">rescued from the Boko Haram extremist group, Amnesty International alleged<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">in a new report Thursday that Nigeria\u2019s military swiftly dismissed as<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cfalse.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The report alleges that thousands of women and girls were separated from<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">their families in camps in northeastern Nigeria and abused. Some were<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">raped in exchange for food and others were beaten and called \u201cBoko Haram<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">wives,\u201d the report says.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The report is the latest allegation of human rights abuses by Nigeria\u2019s<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">security forces as they try to combat the Islamic extremist group that has<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">displaced millions of people over the years and killed or abducted tens of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">thousands.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Amnesty International report, based on more than 250 interviews as<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">recently as April, says the alleged abuses occurred as Nigeria\u2019s military<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">pushed to reclaim territory from Boko Haram starting in 2015.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Thousands of civilians freed during the operations were ordered into<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">displacement camps where thousands of people died between late 2015 and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">late 2016 from lack of food, water and health care, the human rights group<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">says.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">That situation improved once aid groups began raising the alarm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMany of these women and men said that they had suffered brutally under<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Boko Haram and were hoping to be rescued, only to find themselves attacked<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">by the military,\u201d the report says. \u201cWomen have been affected in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">disproportionate and gender-specific ways and continue to face ongoing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">discrimination and violence.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria\u2019s government rejected the Amnesty report as \u201cshort on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">credibility,\u201d while the military in a separate statement called it part of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">a \u201cmalicious trend\u201d by the human rights group.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Boko Haram continues to carry out deadly attacks in northeastern Nigeria<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">despite repeated claims by the government and military that its insurgency<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">has been crushed. The extremist group\u2019s attacks often are carried out by<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">women or children who have been kidnapped and indoctrinated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Amnesty International report says hundreds of women and girls have<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">been detained \u201cin deplorable conditions\u201d and often without charge in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">military barracks in Maiduguri city, the birthplace of the Boko Haram<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">insurgency, as suspicions among authorities remain high against people<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">freed from territory held by the extremists.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Washington Post<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian soldiers and self-defense forces have raped women who were rescued from the Boko Haram extremist group, Amnesty International alleged in a new report Thursday that Nigeria\u2019s military swiftly dismissed&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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