The International Criminal Court, ICC, has accused the Nigerian Military of committing war crimes against humanity in its fight against Boko Haram.
The allegation was contained in a Preliminary Examination Report on the army, released by the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor on Thursday.
The report identified eight possible cases of crimes against humanity and war crimes under Article 7 and 8 of its statute, perpetrated by both the militants and the Nigerian military.
According to the ICC, the Nigerian military’s indiscriminate arrest, detention, torture and extra judicial killings of people suspected to be Boko Haram fighters and collaborators constituted the first instance of crime against humanity.
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