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Over 100,000 unarmed Nigerians killed in eight years, says report
3 years agoMourners attend the funeral of 43 farm workers in Zabarmari, about 20km from Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 29, 2020 after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters in rice fields near the village of Koshobe on November 28, 2020. - The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe. The victims were labourers from Sokoto state in northwest Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has said over 100,000 unarmed and defenceless citizens have died directly or indirectly outside the law in the hands of security forces in the past eight years.