Military might have killed 8,000

Nigerian military abuses were responsible for the deaths of some 8,000 people in its fight against Boko Haram extremists said a report by Amnesty International released Wednesday, which names senior officers who should be investigated for alleged war crimes. The scathing report from the London-based human rights group called on Nigeria’s newly elected government, led by former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari, to urgently investigate the deaths of “8,000 people murdered, starved, suffocated, and tortured to death.”