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Original Post Date: 2009-05-18 Time: 21:00:02 Posted By: Jan
The Nigeria Army said yesterday that it had freed four more foreign hostages from the western Niger Delta during an operation to flush out militants which rights groups say has displaced thousands of villagers.
The military has used helicopters and gunboats against militant camps in the creeks around the town of Warri in recent days, its strongest show of force for months.
The militants said they had retaliated by blowing up two oil and gas pipelines, but there was no independent confirmation of this. “In continuation of our search-and-rescue operation, our men rescued four Ukrainian hostages today around the Kunukunuma area of Delta state. The men are with us in Warri now,” military spokesman Colonel Rabe Abubakar said.
Militants have taken more than 200 foreign hostages in the Niger Delta in recent years, most of them quickly released after payment of a ransom. It was not immediately clear when the Ukrainians were kidnapped.
The Ukrainians bring to 17 the number of hostages the army says it has released since starting its offensive in the creeks around Warri on Friday, when it rescued nine Filipinos and four Nigerians from a major militant camp.
Local rights groups said the military’s use of helicopter gunships in recent days had triggered a “mass evacuation” of villagers and urged restraint by the security forces. It asked both sides to allow humanitarian access to those displaced.
“There is no doubt there are casualties from the current clashes who need urgent medical attention and there are thousands more who have fled their villages without adequate food or water,” three local rights groups said in a statement. Reporters saw dozens of displaced villagers sheltering in Ogbe-Ijoh hospital on the outskirts of Warri.
The military has said it cannot “fold its hands” while the country’s mainstay industry is under threat and warned that it would continue its offensive.
The security forces said Friday’s helicopter and gunboat strikes had destroyed a camp run by Government Tompolo, a leader of a faction of MEND known as the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC).
The rescued Filipinos told reporters that two of their compatriots were killed and at least five others were wounded by crossfire. MEND said Tompolo had survived the assault.
MEND said it had moved Matthew Maguire, a British oil worker held hostage since last September, to Delta state, the scene of the latest fighting. The group has in the past used foreigners as “human shields” to discourage the military from using force. (Reuters)
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Original date published: 18 May 2009
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200905180658.html?viewall=1