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Boko Haram. The killings are reporter to have started of the 2nd of January 2015.
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.
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| Some of the bodies recovered from the massacre |
Thousands 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
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.
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.
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.
As President Goodluck Jonathan continues to campaign around the nation, he reacted today to the killings at his declaration in Oyo, where he said he has given the National Security Adviser order to investigate killings and ordered the NSA to come up with a comprehensive report which will be made public to Nigerians.
The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Ironically, Yesterday, thousands of people led by world leaders including Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Switzerland's President Simonetta Sommaruga(pictured above) held a solidarity walk against terrorism in honour of the 17 victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and supermarket siege in the streets of Paris, France yesterday. Yet just like American actor Boris Kudjoe said his his post below, no one seems to really be bothered about the biggest massacre that has happened in Nigerian since Boko Haram started its insane killings in 2009.
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.
As President Goodluck Jonathan continues to campaign around the nation, he reacted today to the killings at his declaration in Oyo, where he said he has given the National Security Adviser order to investigate killings and ordered the NSA to come up with a comprehensive report which will be made public to Nigerians.
The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Ironically, Yesterday, thousands of people led by world leaders including Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Switzerland's President Simonetta Sommaruga(pictured above) held a solidarity walk against terrorism in honour of the 17 victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and supermarket siege in the streets of Paris, France yesterday. Yet just like American actor Boris Kudjoe said his his post below, no one seems to really be bothered about the biggest massacre that has happened in Nigerian since Boko Haram started its insane killings in 2009.
My heart bleeds for this country, and the security situation.
The lives of the people in the North, killed on a daily basis matter too, and should be treated as such by the government, and even the international community(since the government appears to be clueless as to how to combat this boko haram menace). This CANNOT continue to go on. Nigeria is on fire, and we NEED HELP!
May the souls of the departed, brought to an end through this senseless act of violence rest in peace, AMEN.
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