Troops of the Nigerian Army on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, invaded the Amamputu Uli community in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, forcing many residents to flee their homes.
The soldiers also burnt down residential houses during the invasion.
Several videos of the invasion show soldiers pouring a liquid substance suspected to be petrol on the houses after driving out occupants and then setting fire to the buildings, according to SaharaReporters.
One of the videos showed an armored vehicle pulling down an uncompleted building.
The soldiers were shown dragging out three elderly occupants of one of the buildings before setting the house on fire with the occupants’ belongings, including clothes completely burnt.
A voice on the video was heard saying that
the soldiers burnt down seven houses and looted valuable items in some of the houses.
There was no report of the killing of the locals.
There have been many recent reports of the invasion of several communities in the South East by troops of the Nigerian Army resulting in the death of residents, looting of private properties and businesses, burning of houses as well as the sacking of the communities.
On December 29, 2022, troops of the Nigerian Army invaded some communities in Okigwe in Imo State, following the abduction of a female Lieutenant, P.P Johnson by yet-to-be-identified gunmen.
Many locals were feared killed while several others sustained injuries as they ran from the Army invasion which also left the villages deserted.
A video of the invasion which trended on social media showed corpses littering the streets, and residents undergoing torture by military personnel, according to SaharaReporters.
Also in December 2022, troops of the Nigerian Army invaded the Nkalaha community in Ishielu local government of Ebonyi State forcing residents and their visitors from crisis-torn Eha-Amufu communities to flee.
Hundreds of locals displaced by armed herders' attacks on Ebor, Umujiovu, and Mgbuji communities of Eha-Amufu in the Isi-Uzo local government area of Enugu State had taken refuge at Nkalaha before the Army invasion.
As was reported by SaharaReporters, troops of the Nigerian Army, on Monday, December 12, 2022, launched a similar invasion on Obeagu, another community in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State where they arrested 10 residents including commercial motorcyclists and community vigilante members.
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