In a press release published on April 30, Amnesty International denounced the arbitrary detention of 1,500 Fulani herders (also called Fulanis in Nigeria) for more than three months in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp, under the responsibility of the Nigerian army, in Kwara State, in the west-central part of the country.
According to information collected by the human rights organization, at least 150 people, including many children, died due to detention conditions: “overpopulation, unsanitary conditions, travel restrictions, acute malnutrition and diseasesâ€. At least a hundred pregnant women present in the camp are also said to be faced with insufficient maternal care. The NGO urged the Nigerian authorities to open an investigation.
Ethnic targeting
The executive director of Amnesty International’s office in Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, quoted by The New York Times, stated that the camp bore the characteristics of holding a “Rohingya type concentration camp”, based on observations made by the organization between April 5 and 11. A reference to that, located in Bangladesh, where several hundred thousand refugees from this Muslim people who fled persecution live
