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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Massacre in Predominantly Christian Gwoza, Nigeria Said to Leave 100 Dead |
| 2014-08-09 |
| [MORNINGSTARNEWS.ORG] After weeks of sacking villages and destroying church buildings around Nigeria's northeastern town of Gwoza, Islamic holy warrior 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... on Wednesday (Aug. 6) killed an estimated 100 people in the predominantly Christian town, sources said. The shooting, fire-bombing and slashing of men, women and kiddies in Gwoza, Borno state, as initially the military reportedly fled before an holy warrior force backed by international terrorist groups, began at about 4 a.m., producing eyewitness assertions that Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, had taken control of the town of more than 276,000 people. Local residents reportedly said at least 100 people had been killed. The full magnitude of the attack and the Nigerian military response was unknown as most sources have been forced to flee to 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... or Adamawa state, but on the initial day of the assault Pirda Tada, a Christian resident of Saha village, told Morning Star News that Boko Haram gunnies arrived in Toyota Hilux vehicles and cycle of violences and attacked houses with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and fuel-bombs. |
| Posted by:Fred |