16 October 2013 (02:15 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/24 Mehr 1391/12 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711
“The United States is invested in Nigeria’s success because Nigeria’s challenges are Africa’s challenges.”-William Burns, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
“The evidence we’ve gathered suggests that hundreds of people died in military custody in 2013 alone. This is a staggeringly high figure that requires urgent action….”-Lucy Freeman, Amnesty International
Amnesty International says they’ve confirmed reports from earlier this year, and from last year, that Muslim men are being killed in several prison camps in Nigeria. In the first six months of this year at least 950 men have died, many from suffocation, beatings and starvation.
Officially the people thrown into the camps are called militants by the U.S. backed government. Some reports say men are being rounded up just for being Muslim.
Nigeria is the main focus of U.S. AfriCom, and U.S. and European corporations.
U.S. taxpayers gave the Nigerian government $31.3 million USD, to conduct rigged elections!
U.S. AfriCom trains the military forces of Nigeria.
Black Agenda Reports has connected Obama to Royal Dutch Shell. In 2010 the United Nations accused Shell of ecocide and genocide in the name of oil. This was partly based on Shell’s own documentation it provided to the UN.
Amnesty International said the concentration camps are officially known as barracks, and include Giwa and Sector Alpha.
Witnesses told Amnesty that soldiers would also remove prisoners telling them they were going to die. In April 2013, Amnesty International documented the dumping of 20 emaciated bodies by Nigeria’s U.S. trained Joint Task Force at the State Specialist Hospital mortuary. Witnesses told Amnesty that such dumping of emaciated bodies, by U.S. trained forces, was a daily occurrence.
The bodies pile up until the morgue is full, then they are taken away by the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency. I have checked reports on the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency and found that they have been burying people in mass graves since at least 2008! (is that environmentally protective, or just a military convenience?)
Is this what Obama means by “exceptionalism”?