The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a well-known civil rights advocacy group, called for an open investigation on Thursday into the reported deaths of numerous Eastern Security Network (ESN) personnel during military airstrikes in a town in Enugu State.
In a statement, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the national coordinator of HURIWA, urged both civilians and troops to stop fighting one other and the military to stop killing civilians, regardless of the purported crimes committed.
SaharaReporters claims that when air soldiers entered Enugu on Saturday, the neighbourhood was heavily bombarded on the ground.
Scores of alleged members of Eastern Security Network (ESN), an armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were allegedly killed in the military air raids and allegedly buried in mass graves.
The Nigerian military was said to be in a joint operation with sister security agencies when its operatives invaded Akpawfu community in the Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State killing an undisclosed number of people and burning houses.
Reacting, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “The recent alleged killing and secret burial of Igbo youths erroneously labelled as terrorists in Enugu on Saturday must be probed because in Nigeria there is no smoke without fire, particularly in the area of wanton abuses of fundamental human rights by the military during internal military operations, especially in the South East.