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Boko Haram Leader Mohammed Yusuf Was Alive After Capture... Army Insist
3 August 2009
In continuation of controversy surrounding his killing the BBC has obtained a photograph which shows that Muhammad Yusuf , the leader of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria, was alive when captured by the army. They handed him over to the police. A few hours later, journalists were shown his bullet-ridden body. It was reported members of police shouted tribal abuses at Mr. Yusuf before shooting him. The police chief Christopher Dega known for his anti-Muslim practice later lied Yusuf had been fatally wounded while trying to evade capture. Human Rights Watch in Nigeria have called for an immediate investigation into the killing of Yusuf, 39, which they called "extrajudicial" and "illegal". On Friday, the army commander of the operation against the Boko Haram group, Col Ben Ahanoto, said he had personally captured Yusuf and handed him over to the chief of police in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. He said Yusuf had a wound in his arm - which is clearly shown in the photograph - which had already been treated. The police, however, insisted he had been fatally wounded in combat. The police commissioner of Borno state, Christopher Dega, said Yusuf "was in a hideout, and the forces went there and there was an exchange of fire. "In the course of that confrontation, he sustained his own injury. He was picked up and he later couldn't make it." Earlier, police sources had offered a different version of events, saying Yusuf was killed while trying to escape from custody. Meanwhile, another group of women and children, fabricated by Nigerian police to have been abducted by the Boko Haram group, were said rescued from a locked house in Maiduguri. Officials said the latest group of 140 was in a deplorable condition, suffering from pneumonia, fever and rashes. Last week, the police rescued about 100 young women and children from a house on the edge of the city. Many said they were the wives of group members, and had been helped to make alternative travel arrangements to Maiduguri from Bauchi state. The military now says 700 people were killed in Maiduguri alone during violent clashes between police and the Islamic group. An earlier tally of victims of the unrest put the figure at 400. Col Ben Ahanotu, head of security in Maiduguri, said that mass burials had begun there. The Boko Haram compound, he said, was being used as one of the burial sites because bodies were decomposing in the heat. Life in the affected areas is now beginning to return to normal with banks and markets reopening. A military spokesman said two of those killed were soldiers and 13 were police officers. The number of injured, meanwhile, is still being counted. The Red Cross had earlier said about 3,500 people fled the fighting. The violence ended on Thursday with the death of Yusuf.
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