Satellite images reveal that 2,275
homes were destroyed during a
military raid to hunt down militant
Islamists in the northern Nigerian
town of Baga last month, a rights
group has said.
Human Rights Watch said soldiers
"engaged more in destruction than in
protection" after Boko Haram fighters
attacked a military patrol.
The army has not commented on
the latest allegations.
It has said 37 people were killed;
others say more than 180 died.
The Islamist Boko Haram group has
waged an insurgency to create an
Islamic state since 2010.
Correspondents say soldiers have
often been accused of using
excessive force in its efforts to put
down the insurgency.
Nigeria's President Goodluck
Jonathan regarded the conflict in
Baga as "most regrettable and
unfortunate", his office said, in a
statement on Tuesday .
"He reaffirmed his full commitment
to doing all within the powers of the
federal government to speedily end
the intolerable threats to national
security which have necessitated
such confrontations," it said.
'Duty of protection'
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has
called on the Nigerian authorities to
impartially investigate and prosecute
soldiers responsible for recent
violence in Baga.
It said satellite images it had analysed
undermined the military's assertion
that only 30 houses were destroyed
during the fighting in Baga, a remote
fishing community on the shores of
Lake Chad, on 16 and 17 April.
Baga residents told HRW that soldiers
ransacked the town after Boko
Haram killed a soldier during an
attack on a military patrol.
Maina Ma'aji Lawan, a senator for the
area, told the BBC Hausa service that
more than 4,000 houses had been
burnt and more than 200 people had
died.
Community leaders told HRW that
2,000 burned homes had been
counted and 183 bodies identified
after the military raid ended.
Satellite images corroborated this
account and had identified 2,275
destroyed buildings with another 125
severely damaged, the US-based
rights group said.

more here:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22366016

@ poster,do know how many houses are in Baga?

Musiwa's satellite images would get the exact houses destroyed, and images of the dead civilians by each military man better than this satellite image.

Nonsense

musiwa lo ni

teskyg: @ poster,do know how many houses are in Baga?

dat questn s beta directd at d bbc, d publisher of d article!
By d way Aljazeera has shown Nvon Ndege(hope i got her name corect) wit Major Sagir Musa of d mjtf, in Baga strongly denying this allegations!

VIDEO: Baga after massive slaughter in Army, Boko Haram clash http://africanspotlight.com/blog/2013/05/01/video-baga-after-massive-slaughter-in-army-boko-haram-clash/

This is nothing but d work of western media who always potray africa problem more terrible than their,why is the satelite not showing d massacar in afganistan,iraq n american atrocities in guatanamo prison,why didn't d satelite capture d factory of weapon of mass destruction in iraq uptil now than what they wanted us 2 hear? Don't blame them sha cuz our own media is much more terrible than them so whateva fake image n report they gave 2 us we will take it with no option