This announcement was made via a statement addressed to the media on Saturday.
In addition, it claimed that 1,100 locals had been detained.
The report claimed that the mass killings occurred between January and December of 2022.
These claims were made in a statement signed by the organization's three leaders: Board Chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi, Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Obianuju Joy Igboeli, and Head, Campaign and Publicity Chidinma Udegbunam.
They further said that after military and police operations in the area, 220 locals vanished without a trace.
A further 50-60 of the 220 missing persons are believed to have been slain while in military or police custody.
They also claimed that Nigerian army had demolished 600 civilian residences worth billions of naira in the past year.
They went on to say that the military never apprehended the people responsible for terrorising the area, and that some 18,000 people had been forced to abandon their ancestral homes throughout the time period under consideration.
According to the report, between January and December of 2022, the deployed military and police in the East had killed 700 citizens and arrested 1100.
Not fewer than 220 (or 20%) of the 1100 civilians arrested vanished without a trace after being kidnapped by army and police crack squads. To reiterate, the aforementioned crimes were committed by the aforementioned security agencies in violation of both the law and contemporary operational ethics and regulations.
People who were arrested by troops were likewise shown to have an extremely high chance of dying in custody. It is estimated that between 50 and 60 of the 220 people who have gone missing are likely to have been killed while in military or police custody.
Over 18,000 people had their family houses ransacked by the Nigerian military in just 12 months in 2022, and the military was responsible for the destruction of 600 properties belonging to defenceless civilians valued at billions of naira.
In 2022, at the earliest, not a single Jihadist Fulani Herdsman has been captured or shot and killed by the Nigerian military, specifically the Army, in the Region.
(Source: dailypost.ng)
