Amnesty International called for a prompt, effective...

Amnesty International called for a prompt, effective and impartial inquiry into reports that troops have shot dead more than 100 people in central Nigeria.
The attacks in Benue and Taraba States were apparently in reprisal for the killing of 19 soldiers, whose mutilated bodies were found on 12 October 2001 near to villages in Benue state including Gbeji, Vaase, Anyiin and Zaki-Biam.
The killings were attributed to the local population, although no investigation is known to have taken place and no one is known to have been arrested.
These villages were reported to have been the targets of military action. In Gbeji, troops were reported to have gathered inhabitants in the market square before separating out the men and shooting dead more than 100 of them.
Possibly as many as 200 people were killed between 22 and 24 October 2001.