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Reports say death toll in Nigeria killings as high as 2,000, UN chief condemns attacks
[DAWN] UN chief  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... has condemned recent attacks by Islamic forces of Evil that killed hundreds of people in Nigeria, which holds elections next month even though 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... forces of Evil hold large swaths of territory in the northeast of Africa's most populous country. Ban's office said in a statement Sunday that the secretary-general was appalled by reports that hundreds of civilians were slaughtered in an assault around Baga town in Borno state, near Nigeria's border with Chad. Some reports say the corpse count is as high as 2,000. An Posted by: Fred 2015-01-13 |
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