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  • The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said Friday she had enough evidence to open a full probe into ongoing violence in Nigeria by both Islamist insurgents and security forces. Fatou Bensouda's announcement comes as violence continues to wreak havoc in the West African country's northeast, where at least 76 people were slaughtered by Boko Haram jihadists two weeks ago. "Following a thorough process, I can announce today that the statutory criteria for opening an investigation into the situation in Nigeria have been met," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement, issued at the ICC's headquarters in The Hague. ICC prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into the situation in Nigeria in 2010 but Bensouda now wants permission from judges to proceed to a full-blown formal probe Gambian-born Bensouda specifically referred to acts committed by Boko Haram, whose 11-year insurgency into the country have claimed the lives of at least 36,000 people. Around two million others have been displaced. Boko Haram and its splinter groups have committed "acts that constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes" including murder, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement, torture and cruel treatment, Bensouda said. But while the "vast majority" of crimes were committed by non-state perpetrators "we also found a reasonable basis to believe that members of the Nigerian Security Forces committed acts constituting crimes against humanity and war crimes", Bensouda said. This included murder, rape, torture, and cruel treatment as well as enforced disappearance and forcible transfer of the population and attacks directed at civilians. A full investigation by the ICC, set up in 2002 to try the world's worst crimes, could eventually lead to charges over the violence in the oil-rich African nation, which has been fuelled by the Boko Haram insurgency. Its main group claimed responsibility earlier this month for the massacre of some 76 farm workers in an area outside Borno state's capital Maiduguri, in which dozens of labourers were mowed down by gunmen on motorbikes. Farm workers were also tied up and had their throats slit in the attack believed to be seeking revenge on villagers for seizing the group's fighters and handing them over to the authorities. jhe/dk/har
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  • ICC prosecutor wants full probe into Nigeria violence
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