Carnage in northern Nigeria amounts to crimes against humanity

Headline Title:  Carnage in northern Nigeria amounts to crimes against humanity 17 February 2014  Attacks by Islamist armed groups that have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks in northern Nigeria have been increasingly deadly and sophisticated, and amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said.  On 15 February, more than 100 people were reportedly killed and hundreds of houses burnt as gunmen attacked Baga and Izge villages in Borno state. It is just the latest in a series of attacks the organization has documented there and in neighbouring…

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