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Buratai never condoned rights abuses, foreign embassies told
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By Dirisu Yakubu
Famous rights advocacy groups, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA and AFRIRIGHTS, Friday called on foreign embassies to dismiss allegations of human rights violations pressed against immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd) and other ex-service chiefs.
The bodies in letters addressed to some foreign embassies in the land noted that the ex-service chiefs discharged their duties in a professional manner and ethical standard of military tradition.
The Right groups in a statement jointly signed by the national coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the national media affairs director Miss. Zainab Yusuf, categorically stated that rather than recrimination and casting undue aspersions in a bid to ridicule the public standing and assassinate the character of General Buratai and other former military Chiefs, “these persons who had only just volu
Heinous Crimes Against Humanity:Eastern Rights & Intelligentsia Coalition Drags Buratai & 20 Others To 31 Foreign Missions In Nigeria
By Eastern Rights & Intelligentsia Coalition
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Thursday, 11
th Feb 2021: In line with our core formative objective and firm promise of getting justice for thousands of the victims of the Army and Police conduct atrocities in Nigeria since 2015, involving: crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other internationally prohibited acts-clearly defined in various regional and international instruments acceded to by Nigeria;
the Eastern Nigerian Rights and
Intelligentsia Coalition has dragged the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai and over 20 other serving and retired Army or Military and Police chiefs including the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major Gen Ibrahim Attihiru to 31 foreign missions in Nigeria. The respected foreign missions petitioned through their Ambassadors