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Human Rights Commissions say that as many as 1,000 Shias might have been killed earlier this week in by Nigerian troops.

In its report, The Human rights commission report said that the army has dug mass graves and has been putting the dead bodies of the massacre committed over the weekend.

It based its claim on photographs and testimonies that prove the army has buried hundreds of bodies after attacking Shias in Zaria, Kaduna state, last week.

The NGO's chairman, Massoud Shadjareh exclaimed appallingly that the international community cannot sit back and do nothing anymore.



The African Union, United Nations and the Commonwealth were asked to suspend Nigerian membership and privileges and to demand the release of all those detained.

The Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria said that Nigerian troops buried the bodies of hundreds of victims of a military massacre of Shia Muslims on Wednesday.

According to the Press Herald, details of the weekend violence in Zaria have been hardly uncovered because the three attacked areas of the northern town have been on lockdown with no one allowed to enter or leave.

Shia spokesman Ibrahim Musa claimed that soldiers took the bodies from the mortuary of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital and buried them in mass graves on Wednesday, without specifying the source of his information.

“The Nigerian army has desecrated our dead,” He said. “We hereby demand the location of the mass burial, and the interrogation of those who ordered the operation.”

Musa added further that on Monday soldiers had carried away around 200 bodies from around Zakzaky’s home without depositing them at the hospital mortuary.

The fate of Sheikh Ebrahim Zakzaky, the Leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement, is still unknown ever since he was forcibly detained from his house last week. It was reported that Sheikh Zakzaky suffered four bullet wounds while being detained.

According to Sahara Reports who had contacted Sheikh Zakzaky’s son for answers, Sheikh Zakzaky’s family have not heard from him ever since he was detained on Sunday. However, the latter said that a military official assured the family that their patriarch is “safe and well”.

This son is the only one of Sheikh Zakzaky’s children who is not imprisoned nor dead, were three of his brothers have been killed earlier.

Also, in an interview with Press TV, Nusaiba Zakzaky, daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, said that the death toll could be around 450 people. However she added that it was rising and could get to around 1,000.

Later on the daw of Saturday, Boko Haram gunmen launched an attack on the hometown of Nigeria's army chief, triggering a fierce gun battle with the troops with no casualties. This caused people living there to flee to Miringa, taking shelter in a primary school according to locals, says AFP.

Nigeria has suffered from Boko Haram, which had declared its affiliation to ISIS, ever since 2009. Their terrorism has killed some 17,000 and displaced around 2.6 million people since then, according to AFP numbers.

December 31, has been given by the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to the military as a deadline to crush this uprising.