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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Cameroon Court Sends 14 Boko Haram Members To Jail |
| 2014-07-28 |
| [AFRICAPRESSE] A military court in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to 14 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... members, the country's state broadcaster Crtv reported yesterday. The defendants, who were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in March after the discovery of a weapons cache, admitted to being part of the Nigerian Lion of Islam group at a "public hearing" in the northern town of Maroua, said the report. They had been charged with the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition and of plotting an insurrection. "Each of the Boko Haram members (was) sentenced to between 10 and 20 years" in prison, said the report, adding that the sentences cannot be appealed. The trial was reportedly the first of its kind in Cameroon where a large number of members of the radical group have been arrested in the north over the past weeks following attacks on cop shoppes, as well as kidnappings and killings. The armed movement is seeking to install an Lion of Islam Islamic state in Nigeria. It started its bloody insurgency in 2009. More than 3,000 Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram attacks have taken refuge in the Cameroon town of Fotokol, according to a municipal official. "We are worried about infiltrations" by the Islamists among the refugees, a police officer in the town said. |
| Posted by:Fred |