Great news, except for the human rights representative quoted in the story:

“The killing of suspects in police custody, many of them allegedly shot while trying to flee, is a well-entrenched problem in Nigeria,” said Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch. “The fact that the police apprehended him is to be welcomed, but his death while in their custody suggests a total disregard for human rights and the rule of law.”

I’d be outraged at such human rights violations if Muhammed Yusuf wasn’t a murderous, religious thug.

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I think human rights groups are mostly leftists and they are too much in love with human rights especially of law breakers—thugs, murderers, rapists, etc. 

The problem is that such human rights groups tend to forget about the human rights of the victims and law-abiders and they kill the morale of law-enforcers. In most cases, the law enforcers are the enemies of human rights groups. 

Frequently, human rights groups confuse which side they are taking. I have a suggestion; If a member of human rights groups is battered or raped or killed, officers should protect the human rights of the perpetrator more than that of the victim. Why? ‘Cause that is what the human rights advocates work for. 

Here is my question to Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch:
Yusuf led a fundamentalist Islamic group, which had fought police in a five day battle that left up to 600 people dead. Have you thought about the lives and human rigfhts of the innocent victims?

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