{"id":3865,"date":"2012-11-01T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-army-accused-of-widespread-abuses\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:19:19","slug":"nigeria-army-accused-of-widespread-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-army-accused-of-widespread-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Army Accused of Widespread &#8216;Abuses&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Nigerian security forces have carried out widespread abuses in their campaign against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Amnesty International says.}}<\/p>\n<p>The rights group says in a report that abuses include extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman from the Nigerian army rejected the accusations, saying soldiers always operate within the law.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram campaigns for an Islamic state and has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people this year.<\/p>\n<p>It has carried out frequent attacks in northern and central Nigeria since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Nigerian security forces have carried out widespread abuses in their campaign against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Amnesty International says.}} The rights group says in a report that abuses include extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture. A spokesman from the Nigerian army rejected the accusations, saying soldiers always operate within the law. Boko Haram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}