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December 10, 2022
The organisation’s call is sequel to a controversial Reuter’s report indicting the Nigerian army of initiating “a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the northeast”.
Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has demanded that the Nigerian government probe the recent report about the forced abortion allegedly carried out by the leadership of the Nigerian Army.
The organisation’s call is sequel to a controversial Reuter’s report indicting the Nigerian army of initiating “a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the northeast”.
The report stated that the forced abortions terminated not less than 10, 000 pregnancies of women and girls who were raped by terrorists.
The report revealed that “The women and girls ranged from a few weeks to eight months pregnant, and some were as young as 12 years old, interviews and records showed.”
But reacting to report, Amnesty International in a statement condemned the reported actions of the army and noted that “such forced abortions constitute gender-based violence that may amount to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”
The organisation, in its three-thronged demand, called on the Nigerian government to “thoroughly and impartially investigate this report of forced abortions committed by the Nigerian Army.”
The human rights advocate organisation also demanded that the perpetrators of the gender-based violence should be prosecuted, while calling on the government to “provide effective reparations to all victims of forced abortion committed by the Nigerian Army.”