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A commission of inquiry in Nigeria has recommended the prosecution of troops involved in killing hundreds of Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria last year. The commission said the military killed more than 300 people in the attack and that excessive force had been used in the three-day raid on the headquarters of a sect, the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria. The commission also criticised the leader of the sect, Ibrahim Zakzaky, for failing to control his followers. The sect's spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, spoke to Newsday's Aliyu Tanko. (Photo: Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria praying at a mass grave on the outskirts of the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna Credit: Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images )