Boko Haram Kidnapped 172 More Women and Children, Officials Report

[niyad]

Boko Haram Kidnapped 172 More Women and Children, Officials Report




According to local officials and residents, Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 172 women and children and killed 35 people last week. “They gathered the women and children and took them away in trucks after burning most of the village with petrol bombs,” a local government official reported anonymously.

Reports of the attack in northeastern Nigeria took days to become public news due to a lack of communication – it has been known that telecommunications towers in the area were disabled in previous attacks. Residents from the area fled to another area, where local officials finally learned of the attack.

Local vigilantes from the village of Gumsuri who were previously able to hold off the insurgents’ attacks were reportedly overwhelmed by the most recent attack. ”They destroyed almost half the village and took away 185 women, girls and boys,” Umar Ari, a resident who fled the area, said.?

Boko Haram has not officially taken responsibility for this most recent attack, but the attack closely resembled the group’s common methods. According to residents, gunfire was preceded by insurgents shouting, “God is great!”

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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2014/12/23/boko-haram-kidnapped-172-more-women-and-children-officials-report/

[Brigid]

1. How the the hell does Hokus Pokus or whatever they call themselves . . .

Keep track of all these people they've kidnapped?

[niyad]

2. I shudder to think what the answer is.

[Marrah_G]

5. They give them as gifts to their soldiers.

They become servants, punching bags and rape victims for their "husbands".

[JI7]

3. it's like they are allowed to do this without facing much resistance

[Marrah_G]

4. Oh no...........

This makes me so angry and sad ........and frustrated because there isn't a damn thing I can do to help

[niyad]

6. I know what you mean--and it seems to be getting worse.

[marym625]

7. and they are using

The girls as suicide bombers...I posted about this 2x in the last few weeks and no one seems to care.

[niyad]

8. sadly, I know what you mean.

[niyad]

9. . .

[LittleBlue]

10. Is Nigeria's government really this weak?

I would have thought by now they would have identified the perpetrators and gone after them. How can a village in your own country be repeatedly attacked and ultimately overwhelmed? Where is the military?

Put some of that oil money to good use for the people.

[AngryAmish]

11. You act as if Nigeria has a government

Like a lot of places on earth, Nigeria has the outward manifestations of a government. But the idea of a government is a western idea. They may send some dude to the UN and all that. But theirs is a tribal life. The first concern is immediate family then cousins then distant cousins then Nigeria then the rest of the world. Tribal peoples think it is stupid and wrong to have a national identity.

So if half of the country is cheering on Boko Haram and half does not, which side should the government be on?

[LittleBlue]

12. Good points. nt

[mythology]

13. I'd say that the government should be on the side

of those who aren't committing mass kidnappings and murders.

It's really not a hard choice.

[AngryAmish]

14. Well what if a lot of the government is in the same tribe as Boko?

What do you expect them to do?