Shoot-on-sight Order And Ongoing Extra-judicial Killings In The South East Zone
By Nzuko Umunna
May 11, 2021
Area 7, Garki, Abuja.
SHOOT-ON-SIGHT ORDER AND ONGOING EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE SOUTH EAST ZONE
We feel duty-bound to inform you that there is palpable fear over a Shoot-On-Sight directive reportedly given to Army troops in the South East in recent days, a scheme for which new batches of men were moved over the weekend.
By some accounts, this directive seems to have been given unofficially in a hush-hush manner, making the situation all the more ominous.
A Shoot-On- Sight directive is tantamount to an order to extra-judicially exterminate innocent citizens as there is no telling who might be part of the collerteral, unintended casualties. Throughout history, such military strategies or policies have always run the risk of going contrary to all accepted conventions and protocols on the rules of engagement, particularly the Rome Statutes
Vanguard News
Ayo Obe’s tribute to Innocent Chukwuma
On
Ayo Obe
Innocent Chukwuma has left an indelible record in the history of Nigeria’s human rights and pro-democracy activism, and in showing the role that civil society can – and must play – in promoting and supporting good governance. He set a sterling example in the transparent and sustainable management of non-governmental organisations.
When I became President of the Civil Liberties Organisation in October 1995, its Executive Director, Abdul Oroh, along with Chima Ubani, were detained without trial and the office of the CLO was almost deserted as the organisation faced the wrath of the Abacha dictatorship for challenging its account of the phantom coup.