A Civil rights advocacy group in Nigeria, the International Society for Civil Liberties, Inter-Society, is demanding an international criminal enquiry into the killings and kidnappings in the South East region of the country.
The leader of Inter-Society, Emeka Umeagbalasi at a Press conference in Enugu, explains that such an independent investigation is extremely necessary for the purpose of unmasking the true identities of those responsible for the ongoing killings and kidnappings as well as the arrest of innocent citizens in the region, particularly in Imo State
Inter-Society is worried over what it describes as the conspiracy of silence by the international secretariat of the Amnesty International on alleged mass killings going on in the region, while calling on the international community to cause their respective global rights organizations to focus their advocacy attention on the South Eastern parts of Nigeria.
The body laments that despite the massive rights atrocities committed in the five States of the South East region since 2021, no one has been brought to accountability or investigated.
Inter-Society is therefore appealing to the international civil rights groups not to look the other way, while hundreds of citizens are either being killed, kidnapped or disappear without traces in the security-challenged South East region of Nigeria.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
