Panel indicts Army for Borno mass infanticide, killings, but dismisses Reuters mass abortion story

An investigative panel of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has indicted the Nigerian Army over a 2016 case of mass infanticide and other killings at Abisari in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State, North-east Nigeria.

However, the panel cleared the Army of allegations of mass abortion contained in a December 2022 Reuters investigative report.

The Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in North-East, Nigeria, (SIIP North-East, which sat for nearly two years, released its findings at the NHRC headquarters in Abuja on Friday.