04.12.2014 - 10:52 [ Premium Times (Nigeria) ]

EXCLUSIVE: Zaria Killings: Nigerian Army claims El-Zakzaky’s group was armed with ambulance

In what could easily pass as one of the greatest examples of military tragicomedy, the Nigerian Army’s internal communication on the July 25 extrajudicial killing of 34 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, headed by Ibraheem El-Zakzaky in Zaria, described the unnamed protesters as if they were armed combatants and listed an ambulance as one of the “dangerous weapons” captured from them.