The commemoration of the massacre of over 1000 people from December 12=15 2015 is scheduled to take place from 12 to 15 December 2023.
The programme is scheduled as follows:
- 12th December 2023: PRESS CONFERENCE
- 13TH December 2023: PEACEFUL PROTEST WITH HUMAN RIGHT GROUPS
- 14TH December 2023: MARTYRS FAMILY DAY
- 15TH December 2023: SURVIVORS ACCOUNTS
- 16TH December 2023: Public lectures and closing prayers.
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to forget how Nigeria’s military committed large-scale unlawful killings and attempted to conceal and destroy evidence eight years ago when the Army attacked Sheikh Zakzaky’s residence in Zaria on 12th December 2015.
The days 12-14th 2015 December recorded the highest massacre in Nigeria. On days like those, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, and thousands of his followers faced the most brutal crackdown ever, spearheaded by the Nigerian Army, at the behest of the Buhari-led Nigerian regime and its foreign backers. In those forty-eight hours of that eventful weekend, over a thousand unarmed Nigerian citizens were extra-judicially gunned down in cold blood and many hundred others were arrested.
Mass grave in Mando, kaduna state
It was in those two cruel days that many infants and babies who knew nothing about the crimes their parents were allegedly accused of were mercilessly killed. It was during that black period too that even the elderly were not spared. The seventy-year-old elder sister of Sheikh Zakzaky was gruesomely thrown in a raging blaze while still alive, as she cried for water to quench her thirst. It was during that period that many families were completely wiped out of existence. It was during that period that not less than 193 children were butchered without any pity. Over 297 women, 548 men, and 23 pregnant women were all killed within those two eventful days in December 2015. Valuable properties worth millions of Naira were torched and vandalized.