REUTERS: Since at least 2013, the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, terminating at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, many of whom had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants, according to dozens of witness accounts and documentation reviewed by Reuters.

The abortions mostly were carried out without the person’s consent – and often without their prior knowledge, according to the witness accounts. The women and girls ranged from a few weeks to eight months pregnant, and some were as young as 12 years old, interviews and records showed.

This investigation is based on interviews with 33 women and girls who say they underwent abortions while in the custody of the Nigerian Army. Just one said she freely gave consent. Reporters also interviewed five civilian healthcare workers and nine security personnel involved in the programme, including soldiers and other government employees such as armed guards engaged in escorting pregnant women to abortion sites. In addition, Reuters reviewed copies of military documents and civilian hospital records describing or tallying thousands of abortion procedures.

The existence of the army-run abortion programme hasn’t been previously reported. The campaign relied on deception and physical force against women who were kept in military custody for days or weeks. Three soldiers and a guard said they commonly assured women, who often were debilitated from captivity in the bush, that the pills and injections given to them were to restore their health and fight diseases such as malaria. In some instances, women who resisted were beaten, caned, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance. Others were tied or pinned down, as abortion drugs were inserted inside them, said a guard and a health worker.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-abortions/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-briefing&utm_term=12-07-2022

That is why I love nigeria army. They are gallant in anything

Some of these report are just aimed at degenerating, defaming and degrading the Nigerian Army. While I don't want to exonerate the Nigerian Army, the ones done by the terrorist are hardly mentioned.
In fairness, government has thecrole to protect these victims and not leaving them at the mercy of these se@x starved military men

Mixed feelings towards this sort of news or development.

The useless army will debunk this news as fake news now...

Waiting man go say

Pusyiter:
Some of these report are just aimed at degenerating, defaming and degrading the Nigerian Army. While I don't want to exonerate the Nigerian Army, the ones done by the terrorist are hardly mentioned.
In fairness, government has thecrole to protect these victims and not leaving them at the mercy of these se@x starved military men

Why arent you vexed thag BH is kidnapping and impregnating young girls from 12yrs?? We mad at wrong things

Those Batstards should just be castrated. Ever dawn one of them

Whoever that brought this idea to Nigeria army should be commended and promoted. Impregnating a helpless lady will lead to more production of the very cause of boko Haram. This action is the true meaning of nipping at the bud.

It seems karma is real

This is derogatory to our gallant soldiers and anyone condemning this act is not in his/her right senses. How does one expect a 12yr old girl handle pregnancy and baby with nothing to eat and use for the child.
Remember due to being a minor she is prone to VVF(Viginavisiofestula).
I commend NA on this noble act.

You have to be absolutely insane to commend the NA for doing unsafe abortions and killing hundreds of girls, if not more.

BigIyanga:

Why arent you vexed thag BH is kidnapping and impregnating young girls from 12yrs?? We mad at wrong things

Read my lips
Am more vexed than you can imagine
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