Boko Haram is still active. A few days ago it murdered dozens of people in a village in the northeast of Nigeria.
The senator for Borno state, where the attack took place, told the BBC’s Newsday programme that 106 people – 105 men and an elderly woman trying to protect her grandson – were killed in the latest attack.
Ali Ndume said around 100 Islamist militants attacked Izghe for five hours on Saturday evening, without any intervention from the army.
It sounds like the attack in Bombay – guys just wandering around killing people.
Other witnesses described how the attackers had arrived on Saturday evening in trucks and motorcycles.
They asked the men in the village to gather, and then they hacked and shot them to death.
Senator Ndume said it was very painful for him as he knew some of those who had been killed, yet it was too dangerous for him to pay his respects in person.
“I cannot interact with the people I represent. I feel very, very bad about it,” he said.
More than 30 people were killed in the town of Konduga, also in Borno state, earlier this week in an attack blamed on Boko Haram.
Allah is merciful.
“Allah is merciful” – Yeah, well, except exactly the same is happening to Muslims by Christians in the CAR, so lets not make it the fault of a *specific* religion…
It definitely reports “Islamist militants” not non specific religionists. Does it say what the victims were apart from villagers?
Allah is merciful” – Yeah, well, except exactly the same is happening to Muslims by Christians in the CAR, so lets not make it the fault of a *specific* religion…
Yahoo News Dec 19th, 2013
So what prompted 9 sparked) Boko Harem militias to kill a bunch of dirt-poor farmers?
Did someone send them a Valentines card?
I posted about the attacks on Muslims in the CAR a few days ago. But Boko Haram is an Islamist group.
“I posted about the attacks on Muslims in the CAR a few days ago” – Fair enough. I just don’t see the need to specificall use a sarcastic remark about Islam. They’re a bunch of deranged extremists, and I’d be very surprised if, given it’s Africa, there wasn’t some tribal element involved as well. The fact that they kill in the name of Allah is secondary, imho.