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From the BBC: Nigerian police killing at will, says Amnesty

Nigerian police are Ambien Online Best Price carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says.

The rights group’s three-year inquiry details cases of prisoners tortured to Ambien Online Best Price death and shootings at roadblocks.

Amnesty says the Ambien Online Best Price police complain they are poorly trained and that criminals are often better armed than Ambien Online Best Price they are.

On Tuesday, a Ambien Online Best Price hospital in Enugu told the BBC it was overwhelmed by bodies being brought to Ambien Online Best Price them by police.

The BBC visited the hospital’s morgue in the Ambien Online Best Price south-eastern city and took photographs, showing piles young men, lying on top of one another and Ambien Online Best Price strewn about on tables and floors.

It was established that Ambien Online Best Price at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody, accused of kidnapping.

Enugu State police commissioner Mohamed Zarewa told the Ambien Online Best Price BBC he was too busy to talk about their cases.

‘Brutalised’

“The Nigerian police are Ambien Online Best Price responsible for hundreds of unlawful killings every year,” said Erwin van der Borght, director of Amnesty International’s Africa programme, said in a statement.

“The majority of the Ambien Online Best Price cases go uninvestigated and the police officers responsible go unpunished.

“The families of the Ambien Online Best Price victims usually get no justice or redress. Most never even find out what Ambien Online Best Price happened to their loved ones.”

A corrupt police culture, little training or Ambien Online Best Price competence with firearms, and the legacy of Nigeria’s military era are all contributing factors, the report says.

Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, believes police officers are Ambien Online Best Price being brutalised by their training regime.

“Police are Ambien Online Best Price not trained to respect human beings. They are not taught about human rights of citizens and Ambien Online Best Price other people in Nigeria,” he says.

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Justification

The Amnesty report’s authors are demanding an end to a culture of impunity.

They say police guidelines called Force Order 237 – allowing police to Ambien Online Best Price fire on civilians fleeing arrest for serious crimes – must be changed.

Amnesty says the order justifies firing on anyone resisting arrest.

The BBC’s Caroline Duffield in Lagos says gauging the Ambien Online Best Price scale of police violence is difficult – there is no proper data on civilians killed by police.

Two years ago the Ambien Online Best Price authorities announced they had shot dead 785 armed robbers over a Ambien Online Best Price 90-day period, she says.

Amnesty says about 110 police officers are Ambien Online Best Price killed in shoot-outs with criminals every year.