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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria's Boko Haram could be war criminals: UN
2013-11-06
[Al Ahram] Nigeria's 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 could be classed as war criminals, the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
office said Tuesday, as it condemned a bloody attack on a wedding convoy.

"Members of Boko Haram and other groups and entities, if judged to have committed widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population ... (could be) guilty of crimes against humanity," said Cecile Pouilly, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Islamist bully boyz have killed dozens of people over recent days in restive northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, first storming a town on cycle of violences and pick-up trucks and then carrying out highway ambushes.

Boko Haram gunnies were blamed for Saturday's slaying of more than 30 people, including the groom, when a wedding convoy was halted on a road near the border with Cameroon.

Pouilly called the wedding convoy "atrocious" and condemned Boko Haram's campaign of "cowardly attacks" against civilians, politicians, members of government institutions, foreigner and the security forces.
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