NIGERIAN TERROR GROUP TARGETS 1200 CHILDREN AND KILLS 29

 


While the rest of the world is looking away, Nigeria is falling deeper and deeper into despair.

At the hand of armed extremists have fallen 29 children, all attending the Government Secondary School in Mamudo town, in Yobe province.  

The terrorists arrived with guns and tanks filled with petrol, then they set fire to the school.  It was 3 am, when all the children were sleeping in their dorms.

An English teacher at the school was dispatched by gunfire; a large number of children were burned.  Some of the children were shot in the back as they tried to flee the fire.

The group behind this horrific attack is the Islamist group Boko Haram, a very active group with absolutely no compunction in either choice of targets or method of killing. 

Boko Haram has already killed 2000 people in Nigeria in a long string of attacks, many of them on schools.  The pressure they are trying to exercise of course, is on shutting down school that are Westernized, i.e., not madrassas.  Boko Haram also controls territory in the north east tip of Nigeria. 

Boko Haram has also targeted oil installations and is responsible for great losses to the Nigerian economy. 

Nigeria is 50% Christian and 50% Muslim.  Those numbers are not sufficient deterrent for Islamist Boko Haram in calling for an all out Islamization of Nigeria, and the imposition of Shari'a law. 

 Source : the Independent/ 7.7.13


 

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