The Kaduna State government has revealed it buried the dead bodies of 342 Shia members following the Nigerian Army killings of members of the sect in Zaria.
The Secretary to the State Government, Lawal Balarabe Abbas, who testified before Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) into the Zaria massacre of the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria Shia sect said that the government collected 191 dead bodies of Shia Muslims from the Nigerian Army depot and 151 dead bodies from the Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital, Shika, and buried them in the Darur Rahma grave yard, a mass grave in Mando, at the outskirt of Kaduna Town which is about 80 kilometers from the scene of the Army raid on the members of the Islamic sect.
According to his testimony a total of 342 dead bodies were recovered and buried in the mass grave in Mando, which is about a third of about 1000 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria who have been declared missing following the Army raid on Gyellesu residence of the Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
A member of the Shia sect, who contacted The Whistle said “We are asking the Nigerian Army where is the remaining missing persons or the second mass grave that contained the dead bodies of the remaining Shia Muslims that they killed?”
The group represented by the Islamic Human Rights Commission has filed a petition against the Nigerian Army at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
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