Amnesty International has urged the Federal Government to conduct prompt, independent, impartial, transparent and effective investigations into allegations of human rights violations and other abuses in the South-East.
The organisation made the call in Awka on Thursday while presenting a report titled Human Rights and Accountability in the South-East Zone.
It called for investigations into alleged extrajudicial killings and other violations committed by both state and non-state actors, including security forces, the state-backed Ebube Agu militia, “unknown gunmen,” and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network.
Presenting the report on behalf of the organisation, Maurice Chukwu said that between January 2021 and December 2024, the South-East experienced widespread violence, unlawful killings, attacks, torture and other forms of ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, internal displacement, and suppression of the right to freedom of movement.
Chukwu urged the Federal Government to prosecute anyone reasonably suspected of responsibility through fair trials without recourse to the death penalty and to make the findings of all investigations public.
