Reports filtering in suggests that the alleged
mass graves dug by the Nigerian army to
hide the casualties of the clash with
members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria,
has been uncovered.

According to FARS news agency, Nigeria’s
political activists disclosed that they have
found a mass grave where hundreds of
civilians who were massacred during the
Nigerian army’s raids on two Shiite religious
centers on December 12 and 13 have been
dumped.

The mass grave is located in Mando Kaduma
cemetery along the Birnin Gwari road near
Hajj camp in Kaduna state and over 1,000
Shiites Muslims of Nigeria who were allegedly
massacred by the Army have been buried
there.

The political activists (who could not be
named for security reasons), disclosed that
after massacring the Shiite people in Zaria,
the Nigerian army had brought their dead
bodies to Kaduna province and buried them
in the mass grave.
The activists further revealed that the
Nigerian army forces buried and set fire on
the corpses of those Shiite Muslims who had
been killed during the recent raids in Zaria
region.

“The Nigerian army has buried in mass
graves and burnt a large number of dead
bodies of those Muslims who have been
massacred in the recent army forces’
attacks,” the activists revealed.
They claimed that the army was attempting
to destroy every evidence of its alleged
crimes against the suppressed Muslim
community, adding that if it had any
convincing reason for the mass-killing, it
wouldn’t resort to such methods to conceal
its crimes.

The IMN demanded the setting up of a
judicial commission of inquiry to probe the
killings of their members in Zaria on
December 12 and 13, during its meeting with
House of Representatives panel.
The movement also demanded for the
unconditional release of their leader Sheikh
Zakzaky and his wife who have been in the
custody of security agencies since the
incident.
Members of the movement made the demand
when they appeared before a House of
Representatives panel investigating the
matter.

Although the meeting was held behind
closed-door, a lawmaker at the meeting said
that six members of the movement including
some lawyers, chairman of their medical
team, an associate professor from the
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and the head
of their education section were present.

It was also gathered that the movement
members demanded for the corpses of their
members for proper Islamic burial as well as
the release of the injured for medical
attention, alleging that hundreds of their
members are currently detained in Kaduna
prison without being charged to court.
The source said they told the committee that
the killings were premeditated based on the
way and manner they were carried out and
sustained for more than 48 hours.
They said there was no reason for their
leader and his wife would be held in custody
for weeks without any information on his
whereabouts without being charged to court.
It was wrong, they added, for anybody to
refer to them as a sect, but that they are a
movement comprising of adherents of Shiite,
Sunni, Tijjaniyya and even Christian priests.
The source added that they alleged that apart
from killing scores and destroying their
Hussainiyya center, soldiers also went to
where Zakzaky’s mother was buried and tried
to exhume her body and also destroyed their
cemetery at Darur Rahma along Jos-Zaria
road.

They further said that when the killings were
going on, personnel of the Red Cross who
attempted to render help to the injured and
evacuate those killed were denied access by
soldiers.

After listening to their submissions, the
committee chairman Rep Aminu Sani Jaji
(APC, Zamfara), said his committee would do
a thorough investigation.
He said his committee would intervene for
the release of Sheikh Zakzaky and other
members of the movement in detention.
The lawmaker said the committee would also
visit the movement Hussainiyya, Zakzaky’s
residence as well as the Darur Rahma, and
other affected places to see for themselves.
He promised that he would ensure that
justice is done no matter which of the two
sides is found guilty.

It would be recalled that the Islamic Human
Rights Commission (IHRC), an NGO in special
consultative status with the economic and
social council of the United Nations, affirmed
that the Nigerian Army opened fire on a
peaceful demonstration in Kaduna.
The IHRC also affirmed claims that the
existence of mass graves have been credible,
saying that the army dug mass graves and
filled them up with bodies of victims of
ruthless military actions.



https://www.naij.com/721029-zaria-bloodbath-controversy-arise-mass-grave-dug-army-discovered-photos.html

This is wickedness.

One article that I read on-line shows that a certain Sunni's leader in Nigeria wrote Buhari before he was sworn in and asked him to carry out a clampdown on the this movement.

If that is true, it is a premeditated crime against humanity and should not be wept under the carpet.

Moral lesson. Don't confront the army with a stick.