Shiite spokesman, Ebrahim Musa, has accused the Nigerian Army of burying the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged military massacre of Shiite Muslims to hide the death toll.
The spokesman said soldiers took the bodies from the mortuary of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital and buried them in mass graves on Wednesday.
“The Nigerian army has desecrated our dead,” Musa said. “We hereby demand the location of the mass burial, and the interrogation of those who ordered the operation.”
Commenting on the alleged killings, Senator Shehu Sani, who hails from Kano State and a human rights activist, said: “The Zaria killings simply affirmed the fact that as a nation we have not learnt our lessons from our painful and hard experience”.
Before the Zaria killingd, the Shiites two weeks ago suffered a suicide bombing in a procession that killed 22 people. Boko Haram, a Salafist group, claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened to “wipe out” the Shiites.
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