{"id":6319,"date":"2015-09-01T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2015-10-01T02:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:51:58","slug":"boko-haram-remains-a-deadly-threat-in-the-region-despite-military-advances-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6319","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram remains a deadly threat in the region despite military advances – AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amnesty\"<\/a>\u00b7 At least 1,600 civilians killed by Boko Haram in last 4 months
\n\u00b7 More than 3,500 civilians killed by Boko Haram in 2015
\n\u00b7 Nigeria yet to investigate military abuses
\n\u00b7 Almost 400 civilians and dozens of security personnel killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon since January 2014<\/p>\n

Despite advances by the military, attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger have claimed the lives of at least 1,600 people since the start of June, bringing the death toll to at least 3,500 civilians in 2015 alone, said Amnesty International as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) discusses a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights\u2019 report on the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of people killed so far this year is truly shocking with more than 3,500 civilian fatalities in less than 300 days,\u201d said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International\u2019s Africa Director for Research and Advocacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernments in affected countries must take all necessary legal measures to ensure the security of civilians in affected areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, as the UNHRC discusses violations and abuses committed in the context of the conflict, Amnesty International is renewing its call for adequate protection of civilians from Boko Haram attacks.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International is also calling for urgent and thorough investigations of serious human rights violations committed by their security forces. Following the publication of an Amnesty International report on 3 June President Buhari pledged to investigate evidence that Nigerian military forces have committed serious human rights violations, war crimes and acts which may constitute crimes against humanity. To date, no investigation has begun.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is nearly four months to the day since President Buhari vowed to investigate the serious crimes under international law which Amnesty International highlighted in its report,\u201d said Netsanet Belay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of victims are still waiting for justice. President Buhari and his new cabinet must take urgent action to rigorously investigate all crimes under international law committed by both Boko Haram and Nigerian security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, in Cameroon crimes under international law and human rights violations have been committed by both Boko Haram and the state security forces. Such crimes have not been investigated effectively. Amnesty International calls on the government of Cameroon to urgently initiate thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigations into crimes under international law committed by all parties to the conflict in Cameroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b7 At least 1,600 civilians killed by Boko Haram in last 4 months \u00b7 More than 3,500 civilians killed by Boko Haram in 2015 \u00b7 Nigeria yet to investigate military abuses \u00b7 Almost 400 civilians and dozens of security personnel killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon since January 2014 Despite advances by the military, attacks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[133,77,231,881],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-amnesty-international","tag-boko-haram-terrorists","tag-president-mohammadu-buhari","tag-united-nations-human-rights-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amnesty.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1DV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}