{"id":76961,"date":"2020-11-21T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76961"},"modified":"2020-11-21T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:59:00","slug":"buratai-orders-army-to-treat-all-nigerians-as-boko-haram-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buratai-orders-army-to-treat-all-nigerians-as-boko-haram-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Buratai\u00a0Orders Army To Treat All Nigerians As Boko Haram Suspects\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai has ordered troops involved in counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast to swiftly attune themselves to war mode, Peoples Gazette can report, lamenting a slack in personnel performance that has prolonged the war.<\/div>\n
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An internal army correspondence seen by the Gazette, titled: \u201cCOAS Special Order-01 Change to War Mode,\u201d also directed soldiers deployed in \u2018Operation Lafiya Dole \u2014 a special anti-terrorism combat squad \u2014 to treat all individuals in the troubled region as Boko Haram suspects until properly identified.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll persons must be treated as suspects unless fully identified and cleared especially in isolated, high threat areas, when on clearance operations and check point duties,\u201d the November 20, 2020, directive said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not in peacekeeping operations, internal security operations or deterrence actions,\u201d the\u00a0memo added. \u201cThis is real war fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

OPLD theatre commander Farouq Yahaya also conveyed a follow-up from Mr. Buratai to the soldiers, directing them to \u201cquickly identify\u201d and \u201cimmediately neutralise\u201d all confirmed terrorist elements.<\/p>\n

Rights activist Emeka Umeagbalasi worries that the new methodology deployed by the chief of army staff portends grave consequences for human rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that directive is implemented, we are going to witness human rights abuses on an industrial scale,\u201d Mr. Umeagbalasi told the Gazette Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nigerian Army\u2019s counterinsurgency operations should be done within the confines of international best practices. Superior intelligence and crime detection must be applied considering Boko Haram\u2019s asymmetrical style of operations. Everyone in the Northeast can\u2019t be labeled as terrorists,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Nigerian Army did not return a request seeking comments about the human rights implications of the fresh directive.<\/p>\n

Military authorities had repeatedly assured since 2015 that the decade-long war against insurgency had been won, and the Nigerian Army was merely executing a mop up operation to extinguish remnants of Boko Haram in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

Weighing in on the purported degradation of the terrorist sect, which has killed thousands of citizens and displaced millions from their homes, President Muhammadu Buhari told the BBC in 2015: \u201cI think technically we have won the war (against Boko Haram).<\/p>\n

\u201cBoko Haram as an organised fighting force, I assure you, that we have dealt with them,\u201d Mr. Buhari said, while the sect has nonetheless remained a major threat to Nigeria\u2019s national security, having tweaked its strategies and stayed on the offensive.<\/p>\n

The insurgents also still control vast swathes of Nigerian territories, prompting the military to initiate\u00a0a fresh campaign to reclaim the lands<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n

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