Baga Town Blood bath Cover-Up. Satellite Images Emerge

Human Rights Watch (HRW),international rights crusader, has punctured military’s claim that the fires that razed thousands of buildings in Baga, Borno State were caused by rocket-propelled grenades fired by members of Boko Haram, Islamist militant group.

This is coming as new evidence reportedly obtained by Al Jazeera, the international news media suggested that the number of people killed during recent fighting in the state may be much higher than officially reported.

But HRW said that satellite images, showed that soldiers may have set the fires that razed “2,275 buildings and left 125 others” in the town severely damaged.

In a statement Wednesday, the international rights group called on the federal government to impartially probe the incident adding that the military was covering up something going by the fact that it had vehemently refused to allow journalists access into the troubled community.

There had been reports that 187 persons were killed and about 2,000 houses torched during the April 16, 2013 clash.

Elsewhere, Al Jazeera claimed in a report Wednesday that in the violence's aftermath, the number of people killed during the clash between Nigerian security forces and the armed group Boko Haram was subject to wildly conflicting reports.

According to Al Jazeera the Nigerian army is standing by its claim that no more than 36 people died during the fight in Baga, a town in Borno state, and that the vast majority of victims were members of Boko Haram.