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Obasanjo expands human rights commission’s brief

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    Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday ordered a commission he set up to probe past human rights abuses to extend its inquiries back to the country’s first military takeover in 1966, Reuters reported.

    The commission had been appointed to investigate abuses during military regimes from 1983 to May 1999. Its new mandate includes the 1967-1970 Biafra war of secession, during which widespread rights abuses were reportedly committed, and Obasanjo’s stint as a military ruler from 1975 to 1979.

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