Gruesome video implicates Nigeria’s military in war crimes

Amnesty International in a new report released Tuesday morning has provided fresh evidence of war crimes and extra judicial killings against Nigeria’s military as it battles Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria’s north east region.

The new evidence is captured in gruesome video footage, images and testimonies gathered by field officers of the human rights group  from numerous sources during a recent trip to Borno state. Some of the evidence also nailed the Boko Haram militants, committing various atrocities.

There are  horrific images of detainees having their throats slit one by one and dumped in mass graves by men who appear to be members of the Nigerian military and the “Civilian Joint Task Force” (CJTF), state sponsored militias. There is also a video footage that shows  the aftermath of a Boko Haram raid on a village in which the armed group killed nearly 100 people and destroyed or badly damaged scores of homes and other buildings.