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The lid was this morning lifted on how the able-bodied young men whose bodies were found floating on Ezu River in Anambra State on … were killed.
The expose is contained on the second part of an exhaustive report by the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) released this morning in Onitsha, Anambra State.
Signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chairman, Board of Trustees of Intersociety, the report is a follow-up to the one released on February 19 entitled The Return of Anambra’s Killing Fields: A Criminological Evaluation Of The Ezu River Of Death & Related Tragedies Of Yesteryears (Part One).
Intersociety insisted in the new report that “the Ezu River of Death Disaster” was “perpetrated by the Police” and that the victims were “dozens of unprocessed (not fully investigated, prosecuted, properly tried, convicted and sentenced) suspects including some innocent members of the public, some members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra-MASSOB and some suspects accused by the formal security agencies in Anambra State of Nigeria of armed robbery and abduction (kidnapping); numbering between 25 and 50, who were violently taken into SARS detention since December 2012 or before then.”
On how the victims met their death, Intersociety said that they “were brought out from their detention cells, killed with lethal objects or substances, which may include killer-chemical substances, lethal middles, lethal clubbing, strangulation and lethal bullets (particular mode of killing is to be determined by independent credible autopsy) other than tasering or tear-gassing ; taken to Ezu River on patrol vans during the hours of the dead (1:00am and 3:00am) and dumped in turn, into the river under reference; with a malicious intent to close traces and heap blames on the host community (Amansea) and endanger their lives and those of their neighbours with false linkage to non-existent violent communal conflicts as the cause and source of the floating corpses.”
News Express shall publish the full report later today. It is very explosive. Please don’t miss it.
•Photo: Intersociety BoT Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi.
