... 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...
killed hundreds of people and burned down almost an entire town this month,
More than 3,700 buildings, including homes, schools, and clinics, were torched by Boko Haram in and around the remote town of Baga during an assault that began on Jan. 3, the human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group said. Satellite photos showed the entire town of Doron-Baga, which is next to Baga, had been effectively burned down.
Amnesty said the pictures corroborate the stories of refugees who have spoken of many hundreds killed in the remote area, which is dangerous and inaccessible for journalists and aid workers. Residents who fled have described walking through a countryside littered with bodies.
For a week, the question of how many people died there has been the subject of a back-and-forth between Nigerias press and its government. Emotional and hungry residents who have lost their family members and walked for days have told news hounds that as many as 2,000 people were killed. It is impossible to verify those numbers, given the risks in traveling to the town.
The army says at most 150 people died there, many of them members of Boko Haram. A lot of speculations and conjectures have been peddled by a section of the press, it said in a statement on Monday.
Nigerias President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
is seeking a second four-year term next month, in an election whose biggest issue is his handling of Nigerias five-year-long war with Boko Haram. The campaign has put pressure on Nigerias military to show gains in that struggle.
On Wednesday, the military said it had conducted an