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| Boko Haram strikes in Borno again, kills 21 | |
| 2015-07-26 | |
| [Guardian Ng] At least 21 people were killed in a new attack by suspected Islamists in a village in northeastern Borno state, causing many to flee, residents said Saturday. "The "They laid siege in daylight because there are no soldiers or police nearby," said another resident, Markus Ali, adding: "We counted 21 corpses." The attackers "killed, destroyed and then fled," Ali said. A police officer in the Borno state capital Maiduguri confirmed the attack while requesting anonymity. Templer added: "My aged mother is currently in the bush. Most of our people have fled and many houses and shops have been burnt." Maikadari is in southern Borno near the vast Sambisa forest, a longstanding hideout of the Islamist group 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... The Nigerian army has led a series of raids against them in recent months, succeeding in freeing several dozen women and kiddies from the hands of Boko Haram. But several state governors in the region have said this week that the group continues to occupy the forest. The Boko Haram insurgency and efforts to quell it have claimed more than 15,000 lives and displaced 1.5 million people since 2009.
"The gunnies arrived on 10 cycle of violences, two or three on each bike and attacked Kopa, Maikadiri and Yaffa" villages, he told AFP. He said four people were killed in Yaffa. He claimed that the gunnies used to live in the villages before joining Boko Haram. "Now they have no limits and they are preying on their own community because of the pressure the army offensive has put on them," Ularamu said. Ularamu said the gunnies may have been taking their Dire Revenge on their former neighbours. "The attacked their community because they would not let them back when the army attacked their camps. Those who tried to come back were denounced and tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by the authorities," he said. Fatima Saleh, who lives in the neighbouring village of Maigana, told AFP she saw the attackers pass and recognised many of them as locals. | |
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