GENOCIDE: Activists Locate Mass Graves Where Army Buried ‘Over 1,000 Shi’ites’ In Zaria (PHOTOS)

Nigeria’s political activists disclosed that they have
found a mass grave where hundreds of civilians who
were massacred during the Nigerian army’s raids on
two Shiite religious centers on December 12 and 13
have been dumped.


The mass grave is located in
Mando Kaduma
cemetery along the Birnin Gwari road near Hajj
camp in Kaduna state and over 1,000 Shiites Muslims
of Nigeria who were massacred by the Army have
been buried there.


The political activists revealed that after massacring
the Shiite people in Zaria, the Nigerian army had
brought their dead bodies to Kaduna province and
buried them in the mass grave.


“God bless the martyrs and grant patience to their
families,” the activists said.


The Nigerian army attacked two religious centers of
the country’s Shiite community on December 12,
killing hundreds of defenseless civilians there. A few
hours later on December 13, the military arrested
Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky after raiding his house and
killing three of his sons, assistants and followers.


Political activists said later that the Nigerian army
forces buried and set fire on the corpses of those
Shiite Muslims who had been killed during the recent
raids in Zaria region.


“The Nigerian army has buried in mass graves and
burnt a large number of dead bodies of those
Muslims who have been massacred in the recent
army forces’ attacks,” the activists revealed.


They said that the army was attempting to destroy
every evidence of its crimes against the suppressed
Muslim community, adding that if it had any
convincing reason for the mass-killing, it wouldn’t
resort to such methods to conceal its crimes.


Late in December, members of the Islamic
Movement in Nigeria demanded setting up of a
judicial commission of inquiry to probe the killings of
their members in Zaria on December 12 and 13,
during its meeting with House of Representatives
panel.


The movement also demanded for the unconditional
release of their leader Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife
who have been in the custody of security agencies
since the incident.


Members of the movement made the demand when
they appeared before a House of Representatives
panel investigating the matter.


Although the meeting was held behind closed-door, a
lawmaker at the meeting said that six members of
the movement including some lawyers, chairman of
their medical team, an associate professor from the
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and the head of their
education section were present.


It was also gathered that the movement members
demanded for the corpses of their members for
proper Islamic burial as well as the release of the
injured for medical attention, alleging that hundreds
of their members are currently detained in Kaduna
prison without being charged to court.


The source said they told the committee that the
killings were premeditated based on the way and
manner they were carried out and sustained for
more than 48 hours.


They said there was no reason for their leader and
his wife would be held in custody for weeks without
any information on his whereabouts without being
charged to court.


It was wrong, they added, for anybody to refer to
them as a sect, but that they are a movement
comprising of adherents of Shiite, Sunni, Tijjaniyya
and even Christian priests.