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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria massacre deadliest in history of Boko Haram: Amnesty |
| 2015-01-11 |
| [DAWN] Hundreds of bodies, too many to count, remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic holy warrior attack that ... 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... Mike Omeri, the government front man on the insurgency, said fighting continued Friday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where Lions of Islam seized a key military base on January 3 and attacked again on Wednesday. Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when Lions of Islam drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents. Just break a single Boko knees and Amnesty will be up in arms. The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram Lions of Islam in Baga was enormous, Muhammad Abba Gava, a front man for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now, Gava said. An If true, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram's ongoing onslaught, said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... condemned the attacks. We urge Nigeria and its neighbours to take all possible steps to address the urgent threat of Boko Haram. Even in the face of these horrifying attacks, terrorist organizations like Boko Haram must not distract Nigeria from carrying out credible and peaceful elections that reflect the will of the Nigerian people, Psaki said in a statement. The previous bloodiest day in the uprising involved soldiers gunning down unarmed detainees freed in a March 14, 2014, attack on Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri city. Amnesty said then that satellite imagery indicated more than 600 people were killed that day. The 5-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled across its borders into Chad, 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... and Nigeria. |
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| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-11 09:42 |