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EXPOSED: Children Who Escaped Boko Haram Captivity Are Being Tortured By Military – Amnesty
May 27, 2020
According to a report by Amnesty International, AI, hundreds of children who escaped from Boko Haram captivity in the north-east are being tortured by the Nigeria military.
The report indicting the military is to commemorate Children’s Day on Wednesday.
Entitled ‘We dried our tears’, the 91-page report addressed the toll of the Boko Haram war on children, and also examined how the military’s detention and torture have compounded the suffering of the young ones.
According to AI, these children end up being displaced and are with no access to education.
“At worst, they are arbitrarily detained for years in military barracks, in conditions amounting to torture or other ill-treatment,” a statement by AI read.
“The UN told Amnesty International it has verified the release of 2,879 children from military detention since 2015, although it previously cited a higher figure of children detained between 2013 and 2019. These statistics are likely to be a vast underestimate, and the UN has said its access to military detention is restricted so it cannot provide the actual number of children detained in the context of the conflict.
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