The accounts of the two women, who said they met by chance at a wedding outside Nigeria, buttress the testimony of more than 30 other women and girls who said they endured forced abortions.
As National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, holds hearings on reports of a mass army-run forced abortion programme in Nigeria’s war-torn northeast, two more women have said that they underwent abortions in military custody without their consent. The accounts of the two women, who said they met by chance at a wedding outside Nigeria, buttress the testimony of more than 30 other women and girls who said they endured forced abortions during the government’s nearly 14-year war against Islamist insurgents.