Nigeria Army Abuses May Undermine Fight Against Islamists
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When Nigerian soldiers in pursuit of Islamist militants reached the northeastern town of Baga, fish trader Mohammed Adawu had no time to save his sick 72-year-old father.
“We all ran for our dear lives before they set our house ablaze and my father was burnt to death,” Adawu said on April 30 outside three destroyed buildings by a market. Other residents crowded around him and told of their escape from attacks by soldiers last month in Baga, a fishing town on the shores of Lake Chad.