The United States-based human rights group claims that Nigerian security force used live ammunition and deadly force against pro-Biafra protesters who were campaigning for secession from Nigeria.
The group said its findings are based on interviews with close to two hundred people, as well as more than one hundred photographs and eighty-seven videos.
Amnesty International particularly cited alleged extrajudicial executions of sixty people in the commercial town of Onitsha, in Anambra State, during the Biafra Remembrance Day in May this year.
Amnesty’s Country Director for Nigeria, MAKMID KAMARA said there could be much more than the estimated one hundred and fifty deaths from the reckless and trigger-happy approach to crowd control.
The report cited a case of a twenty-six-year-old man who was allegedly shot around Nkor, and was later bathed with acid by soldiers who discovered that he was still alive and hiding inside a gutter.
It also detailed the account of another woman who confirmed speaking to her husband on telephone after he was arrested by security forces but later found dead at a mortuary, with gunshot wounds on his chest.
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