{"id":193822,"date":"2020-02-15T05:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193822"},"modified":"2020-02-15T05:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:38:32","slug":"boko-haram-amnesty-international-supporting-terrorists-in-northeast-dhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193822","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: Amnesty International supporting terrorists in Northeast – DHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday said, it has taken cognizance of yet another falsified report by Amnesty International (AI) in a campaign of calumny targeting the Nigerian Military and deliberately supporting the callous acts of terrorism perpetuated by Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP).<\/p>\n

A statement by Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director Defence Information said, this inglorious campaign is contained in a recent report alleging employment of unlawful tactics of razing down villages and unlawful detention of locals by troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is line with the AI usual mannerism and tenacious efforts aimed at disparaging the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Defence Headquarters wishes to state unambiguously that the allegations being touted by AI is nothing but a betrayal of its lack of in-depth knowledge of the goings-on in the North East (NE) theatre of operation.<\/p>\n

\u201d It is expedient to state that troops of Operation Lafiya Dole who are conducting Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Operations in the NE do not employ arson as an operational tactic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a well-known fact, going by the modus operandi of BHTs, that they, have more often than not engaged in the atrocious acts of looting and burning of villages, as well as destroying infrastructures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt, therefore, beats one\u2019s imagination that AI is attributing these atrocities to AFN troops who are legitimately defending the country guided by extant rules of engagement and operational codes of conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI must understand the fact that Nigeria is at war against terrorism in the NE and that the troops have a constitutional mandate to protect lives and property, even if it means conducting an evacuation to save and secure lives of civilians in the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting civilians by evacuating them from the line of fire during combat is not a violation of the international law of conflict or a war crime. It is rather a commendable effort by the troops to prevent collateral damage during combat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur troops should therefore be commended for making deliberate efforts to evacuate civilians in order to protect their lives and property.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also crucial to point out, that troops deployed to fight terrorism in the NE do not attack or raze down villages, communities or settlements, rather they launch offensive on terrorists camps, enclaves and hide outs.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on actionable intelligence, persons who provide logistics and other forms of support to the terrorists are arrested and subjected to thorough investigation by a combined team of professionals drawn from the intelligence community of the Armed Forces and other security agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201d Anyone not found culpable is not held in custody for further investigations.<\/p>\n

AI must, therefore, put an end to its reckless distortion of facts in its desperate bid to satisfy its puppeteers by undermining Nigerian Military campaign against terrorism in the NE.<\/p>\n

\u201d We urge members of the public to please discountenance AI report, as it is not a true and realistic reflection of troops\u2019 counter terrorism operation in the NE,\u201d the statement said<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday said, it has taken cognizance of yet another falsified report by Amnesty International (AI) in a campaign of calumny targeting the Nigerian Military and deliberately supporting the callous acts of terrorism perpetuated by Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP). A statement by Brig. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1674,37,40],"class_list":["post-193822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-amnesty-international","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}