In spite of the energetic worldwide ‘Bring Back our Girls’ campaign, the Nigerian Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, continues to hold the 200 schoolgirls it kidnapped in April.
And the group, whose name means ‘Western
Education is forbidden’, mounted further attacks over the weekend in the
country’s north-eastern state of Borno. They rolled into two villages is suv’s
and spent six hours burning houses and gunning down everyone they could find.
Dozens of people were killed.
Apparently they told villagers
they had come to preach to them, and then when they had gathered a crowd, they
opened fire. Witnesses said that on this occasion, Nigerian armed forces –
often criticised for their inaction – did try to launch a counter-attack,
killing a number of Boko Haram fighters.
It is just the latest in a series
of attacks by the group in the region that have seen hundreds of people killed in the last
few months. 45 died in Borno’s capital, Maiduguri, at the
beginning of this month, but Boko Haram have also struck in Nigeria’s capital
city, Abjua.
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