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| Africa Subsaharan |
| 400 killed in Boko Haram attacks since April: Amnesty |
| 2017-09-06 |
| [DAWN] A spurt in attacks by 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... Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and 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... , double the figure of the previous five months, Amnesty said on Tuesday. The increasing use of jacket wallahs ‐ often young women and girls forced to carry and detonate explosives in crowded areas ‐ has killed at least 381 civilians in the two countries, the rights group said in a statement. "Boko Haram is once again committing war crimes on a huge scale, exemplified by the depravity of forcing maidens to carry explosives with the sole intention of killing as many people as they possibly can," said Alioune Tine, "This wave of shocking Boko Haram violence, propelled by a sharp rise in suicide kabooms, highlights the urgent need for protection and assistance for millions of civilians... Governments in Nigeria, Cameroon and beyond must take swift action to protect them from this campaign of terror." Amnesty said at least 223 civilians died in Nigeria since April, underscoring that the real toll could be far higher. "Between May and August, seven times more non-combatants were killed than in the preceding four months, while 100 non-combatants were killed in August alone," it said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Must be fundraising time again. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-06 09:51 |