HRW Urges Nigeria to End Impunity

United States-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Nigeria to prosecute those behind what it calls a massacre of at least 200 Christian villagers and end a cycle of impunity which has allowed instability to persist.

HRW’s West Africa senior researcher, Corinne Dufka, points out that, "This kind of terrible violence has left thousands dead in Plateau state in the past decade, but no one has been held accountable. It's time to draw a line in the sand."

The rights group called on Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, who promised after unrest around Jos in January that those responsible would be brought to justice, to ensure a credible investigation and prosecutions.

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