Preface
On behalf of the members of the Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in North-East Nigeria (SIIP North-East), and its secretariat staff, I want to thank the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for appointing us to serve the course of human rights and bestowing on us the independent mandate to investigate allegations of this magnitude.
The mandate given to the Panel to investigate the allegations contained in the Reuters reports of December 2022 against the Nigerian military was a challenging one from the onset.
