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

Nigerian police are Generic Valium Over Counter 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 Generic Valium Over Counter death and shootings at roadblocks.

Amnesty says the Generic Valium Over Counter police complain they are poorly trained and that criminals are often better armed than Generic Valium Over Counter they are.

On Tuesday, a Generic Valium Over Counter hospital in Enugu told the BBC it was overwhelmed by bodies being brought to Generic Valium Over Counter them by police.

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

It was established that Generic Valium Over Counter at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody, accused of kidnapping.

Enugu State police commissioner Mohamed Zarewa told the Generic Valium Over Counter BBC he was too busy to talk about their cases.

‘Brutalised’

“The Nigerian police are Generic Valium Over Counter 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 Generic Valium Over Counter cases go uninvestigated and the police officers responsible go unpunished.

“The families of the Generic Valium Over Counter victims usually get no justice or redress. Most never even find out what Generic Valium Over Counter happened to their loved ones.”

A corrupt police culture, little training or Generic Valium Over Counter 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 Generic Valium Over Counter being brutalised by their training regime.

“Police are Generic Valium Over Counter not trained to respect human beings. They are not taught about human rights of citizens and Generic Valium Over Counter other people in Nigeria,” he says.

“They are Generic Valium Over Counter not taught that they have a duty to prevent and Generic Valium Over Counter arrest criminality in the society.”

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 Generic Valium Over Counter 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 Generic Valium Over Counter scale of police violence is difficult – there is no proper data on civilians killed by police.

Two years ago the Generic Valium Over Counter authorities announced they had shot dead 785 armed robbers over a Generic Valium Over Counter 90-day period, she says.

Amnesty says about 110 police officers are Generic Valium Over Counter killed in shoot-outs with criminals every year.

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