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by: Stealth83 Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 6:42pm  
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 6:47pm  
Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre':Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in
Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International
described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.
Fighting continued on Friday around Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on 3 January and attacked again on Wednesday.
“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed
significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant
targets,” said a government spokesman.
District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women
and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove
into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town
residents.
“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was
enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in
a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.
He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the
bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously
injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.
An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.
If true, “this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.
The previous bloodiest day in the uprising involved soldiers gunning
down unarmed detainees freed in a 14 March 2014 attack on Giwa military
barracks in Maiduguri city. Amnesty said then that satellite imagery
indicated more than 600 people were killed that day.
The
attacks come five weeks away from presidential elections which are
likely to trigger even more bloodshed. Already under a state of
emergency, the three north-eastern states worst hit by Boko Haram asked
the central government for more troops earlier this week. The government
has said voting will take place across Borno state although the
worsening insecurity means few international observers are likely to get
clearance to oversee voting in an area that is traditionally
opposition-supporting.
Around 1.5 million people have been displaced by the violence, many
of whom will not be able to vote in the polls under Nigeria’s current
electoral laws.
Boko Haram also appears to be regionalising the conflict, after threatening neighbouring Cameroon in a video earlier this week.
The government has made no official comment on the alleged massacres. President Goodluck Jonathan skimmed security issues when he relaunched his re-election bid in front of thousands of cheering supporters in the economic capital, Lagos, on Thursday.
The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year
alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations.
More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of
thousands have fled across its borders into Chad and Cameroon.
Emergency workers said this week they are having a hard time coping
with scores of children separated from their parents in the chaos of
Boko Haram’s increasingly frequent and deadly attacks.
Just seven children have been reunited with parents in Yola, capital
of Adamawa state, where about 140 others have no idea if their families
are alive or dead, said Sa’ad Bello, the coordinator of five refugee
camps in Yola.
He said he was optimistic that more reunions will come as residents
return to towns that the military has retaken from extremists in recent
weeks.
Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when
extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year.
“I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up
until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press
at Daware refugee camp in Yola.Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 7:25pm  
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 7:34pm  
Who is Boko Haram? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 7:35pm  
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QueenB Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 7:54pm  
How long will the world let this continue?!?! 4951
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CBP210 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 8:01pm  
How long will the world let this continue?!?!
 
@QueenB: Very good question which I think the politically correct crowd does not want to answer.
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 11, '15 10:58pm  

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>> How long will the world let this continue?!?!
 
@QueenB: Very good question which I think the politically correct crowd does not want to answer.
 
@CBP210: it has nothing to do with political correctness. it does have to do with what would you have us do? it is highly counterproductive for a western power to insert themselves into a religious conflict in a place like africa because we alienate even MORE people and drive them toward the extremists. the best we can do is support the efforts of those groups combatting extremism. and before we go all apeshit about it always being extreme muslims, check the central african republic where BOTH christian and muslims have been hacking each other up with machetes, burning religious places and the homes of the people holding different religious views and generally behaving like barbaric genocidal pieces of ****. we are talking children with limbs hacked off by machetes because they come from families with different religions
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:34am  
So what is our "do nothing/no plan" President going to do about this human atrocity? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:37am  
So what is our "do nothing/no plan" President going to do about this human atrocity?
 
@doddlebug:  Obviously.... play another round of golf.
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 11:38am  
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 11:47am  
Americas president used to take the lead in these situations (Leader of the Free World) but for the last six years we have been leaderless. At least France (France?) has the nads to call it what it is and declare war on Islamic Terrorism. Our non-leader and Liar in Chief still won't use the word Islamic when talking about terrorism. 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 11:59am  
So we are supposed to send troups and go in alone?  Is anyone else "going in to end this" or is everyone looking to the US, once again, to fight the world's battles?  Yes, it is horrible, yes, it should stop, but are we the world's peacekeepers for every issue that "isn't right?"   Shoud we really have boots on the ground in every country where we don't like what is going on, when we can't even protect our own borders?  There is only so much we can do at a time and only so far we can stretch our own military.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 12:13pm  
@donnatella...You don't have to immediately jump to "putting boots on the ground....."...But, my God, our Administration can at the very least acknowledge and condemn these horrific acts of violence....   On an International and National level........There's embargo and financial sanctions that can be placed... ...We can help those fighting these Islamic Radical Terrorists, with weapons, ammo, training, and help secure safe passage for those innocent civilians and families trying to simply live.........These are INNOCENT men, women, children and infants that are being brutally tortured and murdered for simply not accepting an Islamic way of life........Whatever we do, we simply just don't stand by with our heads in the damn sand....And just to clarify the recent global events that have occurred in the last week alone, we have the massacre that occurred in Boko Haram, the horrific terrorist killings in Paris, and the Germany bombing....  ...All committed by Islamic Radicals.........These people have NO value of human life whatsoever..........Their main objective in life is to kill any inclination of "The West" or anyone that does not bow down to their degenerate donkey molesting prophet or way of life.....  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 12:36pm  
So we are supposed to send troups and go in alone?  Is anyone else "going in to end this" or is everyone looking to the US, once again, to fight the world's battles?  Yes, it is horrible, yes, it should stop, but are we the world's peacekeepers for every issue that "isn't right?"   Shoud we really have boots on the ground in every country where we don't like what is going on, when we can't even protect our own borders?  There is only so much we can do at a time and only so far we can stretch our own military. 
 
@donnatella:  No we shouldn't have to go it alone and I don't think we should be the world police but we could at least take the lead in forming a coalition of countries (which now includes France) that have declaired war on Islamic Terrorism in the world. Since this non-president took office we have lost all gain that we have made in our war on terrorism since 9-11. Terrorists are attacking in countries all over the world.. what better time than now to take the lead in forming that coalition? Our so called "President" won't even call it what it is.. Islamic Terrorism. Someone needs to take the lead and although I know what you are saying and I agree that we shouldn't always have to be the ones to do it, the problem is.. it's only going to get worse until we do something. If we had the leadership that we need in the White House, this could be the best time to form that coalition.
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 12:48pm  
Our so called "President" won't even call it what it is.. Islamic Terrorism. Someone needs to take the lead and although I know what you are saying and I agree that we shouldn't always have to be the ones to do it, the problem is.. it's only going to get worse until we do something. If we had the leadership that we need in the White House, this could be the best time to form that coalition.
 
@BlissfullyRetired: Our current "leader" will likely not do anything to make waves with anyone Islamic. He has been bowing down for years and his actions show he identifies with them in more than just his name and background. He more than sympathizes...and has been piece by piece destroying the US from the inside. #worstleaderever
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