Saturday 1 September 2012

Federal Government Sends Bill To Try Soldiers For Rape, Turture And Murder To The National Assembly

                                   

Curled from Punch newspaper reports

Worried by violations of the rules of engagement by security operatives in dealing with civilian population during disturbances, the Federal Government has sent a bill to the National Assembly for a law that will punish offenders in concert with international law. The bill forbids unjustifiable attacks against civilian population.

Offences punishable include rape, torture, murder, extermination, deportation or forcible transfer of populations, enslavement, imprisonment, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy or enforced sterilisation or any form of sexual violence of comparable gravity.

Besides soldiers that may directly be involved in such abuses, military commanders will also be liable for war crimes committed by the troops, such as “extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.”

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