Human Rights Watch: Nigerian soldiers, police sexually abuse Boko Haram victims

Nigerian soldiers and policemen have raped and sexually abused women and girls fleeing the terrorist militant group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

 Nigerian soldiers and policemen have raped and sexually abused women and girls fleeing the terrorist militant group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

Forty-three cases of “sexual abuse, including rape and exploitation”, were documented in July, HRW said.

The women and girls were housed at seven camps in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, where Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgency began. 

That insurgency has displaced more than two million people and killed some 15,000 in Nigeria’s northeast.