The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Tuesday, said it
has carefully watched the four-minute video clip which the Daily Independent
newspaper, United Kingdom (UK) promised to release, detailing what it described
as “Nigerian government’s war crime against its citizens.”
It, however, said “the hastily packaged conclusions and
judgmental remarks are clearly in furtherance of the now common public assault
against the Nigerian government and its military.”
It recalled that the military authority had also initiated a
broad investigation into the clips, with a view to identifying those indicted
to ensure that due justice was meted to any perpetrator of human rights abuse
narrated in those films.
“It is also noteworthy that the only new addition to the
video film report of the documentary are the comments by individuals, whose
position about terrorism in Nigeria are already well known.
“It is, therefore, curious that despite the ongoing efforts,
these apparently orchestrated campaign with the use of scenes and footages that
are under investigation could constitute a threat to the efforts to locate the
culprits of the alleged human rights abuse.
“It will be recalled that similar attitude was displayed
last week by a human rights campaign group which, despite assurances of due
investigation of the crimes alleged in these video, still went ahead to embark
on a media campaign with similar video, thereby apparently giving the likely
culprits a chance to escape or cover their tracks,” it said.
The Defence Headquarters stressed that “unfortunately, these
tendency only serves to compromise efforts at unraveling the perpetrators of
the crimes, thereby compounding the evil of war crime as Daily Independent UK
puts it.”
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