Overview
- Amnesty International reports at least 150 deaths among roughly 1,500 Fulani detainees held at the Yikpata National Youth Service Corps camp in Kwara State.
- Many detainees say soldiers told 'innocent' residents to leave their villages for clearance operations and then transported them to the camp, where they were held for months.
- Amnesty researchers who visited in April documented overcrowding, filthy conditions, scarce food, and disease, and they obtained images of children who were severely malnourished.
- Survivors describe starvation and repeated deaths, say detainees pooled money to buy burial shrouds, and report that at least 100 pregnant women had no adequate maternal care.
- Amnesty is urging an independent investigation and an end to what it calls unlawful, discriminatory detention, and the Nigerian military has not publicly responded.