Amnesty International says Nigerian authorities must begin to address the security crisis in the South-East region of the country.
In a statement it released in Enugu on Tuesday, the international human rights group said that to address the crisis, the Nigerian government to carry out transparent, impartial and effective investigation of killings, assassinations, enforced disappearances and other atrocities committed by state and non-state actors since August 2015.
It noted that the persistent failure of the government to address the security crisis in the country’s South-East region has created a free-for-all reign of impunity in which numerous state and nonstate actors have committed serious human rights violations and killed at least 1,844 people between January 2021 and June 2023.