The UN main human rights office has criticised Chad’s execution of 10 Boko Haram fighters by firing squad.
According to Associated Press, Cecile Pouilly of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on the West African country’s government to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty.
Pouilly said the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officials were not granted access to Friday’s trial.
She said it wasn’t clear if the defendants had access to lawyers, adding that the venue of the trial was changed for security reasons, and also reduced from eight to two days.
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Chad recently lifted its moratorium on the capital punishment to counter terrorism in a new bill passed into law in July.
Mahamat Mustapha, a Nigerian, and nine others were executed Saturday for crimes including murder and the use of explosives following suicide attacks in the capital, N’Djamena, in June and July, which killed dozens of people.
Boko Haram is recorded to have killed at least 17,000 people since its radicalisation in 2009, after the death of its founder, Mohammed Yusuf in detention.
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Is their lives better than the innocent souls including hundreds of children they have been killing? Did HRC condemned U.S for killing Osama? Why condemning Chad for taking action to deter terrorist acts in her area of jurisdiction.?
Why didn’t the Human Rights Commission make press releases and announce how Boko Haram’s terror sweeps were occurring.
They should stop speaking from the outside and come into the regions where the menace is, experience it and then come back and give us their feedback.
Why are they not fighting for the rights of the people that have been slain by Boko Haram.
Any Boko Haram member should be handed nothing less than the death penalty.