Nigeria: Army Accused of Killing Hundreds After 'Islamists' Attack Barracks — Amnesty International Claims 600 Killed, Half Civilians

Body is dragged away after Nigerian Army retook Giwa
barracks after an attack by Boko Haram. (Screen capture
from YouTube video)

By BBC
Nigeria's army killed some 600 people after a recent attack by Boko Haram militants on a barracks, Amnesty International has said.

Quoting eye-witnesses, it said that after the raid in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, detainees who had escaped were rounded up and killed.

The army has not yet commented on the allegations but has denied previous reports of abuses.

The conflict has killed some 1,500 people this year, according to Amnesty.

Half of those killed were civilians, the organisation said.

Hundreds of militants were said to have taken part in the 14 March attack on the Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, which BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross described as a particularly brazen assault.

At the time, the Nigerian military said the attack was successfully repelled and many attackers were killed by the air force and ground troops...

Amnesty says satellite images have revealed three possible mass graves around the city.

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