Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Behind the walls of Tiger Base, Owerri, Imo State Police Command, lies a story that may rather remain untold. Established as an Anti-Kidnapping Unit to protect citizens from violent criminals, Tiger Base became the subject of disturbing allegations involving arbitrary arrests, secret detentions, torture, extortion, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. Award-winning investigative journalist Juliana Francis refused to look away. Driven by persistent complaints from victims and families, Francis travelled to Imo State and embarked on a painstaking investigation.She found survivors willing to speak, families searching for missing relatives, lawyers and human rights defenders demanding answers, and troubling accounts of people who allegedly entered police custody and never returned. Using extensive field interviews, documentary evidence, and Freedom of Information requests, she followed the trail wherever it led, into police records, official denials, and the silence of institutions expected to provide oversight.The result is a gripping exposé that gives names and faces to people whose stories might otherwise have disappeared into the shadows. Some accounts raise an even more chilling question: what happened to victims whose bodies were allegedly never released to their families?Tiger Base! is not simply a story about one police formation. It is a sobering examination of what happens when power operates without accountability and when the search for justice becomes a struggle against the very institutions meant to deliver it. Courageous, deeply reported, and uncompromising. this book is both a chronicle of abuses and a warning. When citizens disappaar behind the walls of power, silence is not neutrality, and accountability cannot wait.
