Boko Haram massacres/totally wipes out entire town - as many as 2,000 people dead, village gone
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Why can't the Nigerian government do something about these animals?? They didn't even bother kidnapping females this time, they just slaughtered everyone. http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/africa/boko-haram-deadliest-attack/index.html Kano, Nigeria (CNN)The attackers sped into a Nigerian town with grenade launchers -- their gunfire and explosions shattering the early morning calm. As terrified residents scattered into bushes in Baga town and surrounding villages, the gunmen unloaded motorcycles from their trucks and followed in hot pursuit. Residents hid under scant brush. Bullets pierced them. Some sought refuge in their homes. They were burned alive. nr boko haram attack villages_00002830 Witness: Boko Haram sacks entire town 02:25 PLAY VIDEO Many who tried to cross into neighboring Chad drowned while trying to swim through Lake Chad. By the time the weapons went quiet, local officials reported death tolls ranging from hundreds to as many as 2,000 people. Bodies everywhere That was January 3, nine days ago. On Monday, bodies still littered the bushes in the area. "It is still not safe to go and pick them up for burial," said Musa Bukar, the chairman of the local government where Baga is located. No emergency crews will enter the villages where militants are still running amok, local authorities said. "Baga is not accessible because it is still occupied by Boko Haram," said Sen. Maina Ma'aji Lawan of northern Borno state. The strategic Nigerian town borders Chad, giving the extremists better access to both countries. *************************** http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/boko-haram-kills-too-many-to-count-in-nigeria/384395/ Additional remarks from survivors on the ground in Nigeria were no less chilling. "Too many to count," the Associated Press wrote of the bodies, adding that a district official "said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga." Other reports added that Boko Haram is thought to have "wiped out" another 16 towns outside of Baga, which the group reportedly emptied of its 10,000 residents. "A large number reportedly drowned as they crossed Lake Chad," the BBC relayed. "Herdsmen who are Fulani, who are Muslim, are fighting with farmers who are Christian, who are Berom," John Campbell, the former American ambassador to Nigeria, told The Atlantic last year. He added that in addition to the difficulties of tracking the number of casualties, the quest to bring people to justice is even more arduous. "There is virtually no judicial process involved in this at all. Nobody has been held accountable for the murder of anybody." |
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| time to launch some missiles |
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And now they're strapping bombs on young girls and sending them into crowded areas then remotely detonating the bombs.
You can't arm the people without training. What countries would step in? |
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| This would have made worldwide news , had it happened anywhere but Africa. Can you imagine if 2000 French citizens were killed? The horror! |
What's it like being Muslim? Well, it's hard to find a decent halal pizza place and occasionally there is a hashtag calling for your genocide...
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Normally I don't go for the 'nuke 'em' talk but with the town destroyed and it's residents all killed, I'm wondering if this isn't such a bad idea? |
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Guaranteed there would be boots on the ground, fighter jets in the air, and missiles waiting to be launched. |
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The Nigerian government's military response to Boko Haram's advance in the north has been described as chaotic and ineffective. Soldiers often claim their allowances aren't paid and there are repeated reports of desertion and mutiny, weakening the army's ability to take on a well-organized and determined foe.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to re-equip the army to improve its effectiveness and there are hopes that after the election in February there will be the political will necessary to support the military against the Islamist fighters. However, Boko Haram, which regards democracy as blasphemous, is expected to do all it can to disrupt the elections. |
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| New reports say that the Nigerian army, who was supposed to be guarding the town, just up and ran away and abandoned their checkpoint instead of even trying to fight Boko Haram. |
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| This is the same town that was slaughtered by Boko a few years back. |
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It's sickening. The problem is that the Nigerian government is incapable of controlling the situation, so any intervention by foreign forces would be construed as an invasion. |
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I sorta agree but it's harder to intervene in countries without the institutional infrastructure to handle the follow-through. France has that with it's gov/military/police. Some African countries do not so military intervention can be incredibly destabilizing. Maybe someone who knows Nigeria better can opine on what's needed to tackle this. |
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| Boko Haram has positioned themselves to evade Chad. It is a serious mistake for the world not to intervene and allow the continent to be overtaken by terrorists. |
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Why isn't this stuff on the news ever??
The local and national news (such as Brian Williams' NBC "Wold News") spends all this time on France, "free" college, winter weather and cold temps, and other filler stories, but there is a huge massacre and nobody bats an eye? Is there no outrage? No protests? No acknowledgement of the atrocities? |
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| Too bad Book H cant conveniently be injected with ebola. |
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Reporting in northern Nigeria is notoriously difficult because of instability in the areas most affected by insurgents and the terrorists’ own hostility to the press. Journalists have been targeted by Boko Haram and, unlike in Paris, people on the ground are isolated and struggle with access to the internet and other communications. |