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Progress In Defeating Boko Haram

"We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet. People started screaming and running. I saw blood all over my body."
Musa Ibrahim, Yahaya, 17-year-old student, Potiskum, Nigeria

Potiskum is no stranger to attacks - last week a suicide bombing there targeted Shia Muslims

A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform had explosives hidden in a backpack, He set off those explosives during an assembly at a high school on Monday in northern Nigeria, where several thousand students were in attendance, killing 48 students and wounding 79 others between the ages of 11 and 20. Boko Haram, with good reason, is suspected to have been responsible for the atrocity.

When Nigerian soldiers came upon the scene grisly with spattered body parts they were stoned by an angry crowd. The continued inability or unwillingness of the country's military to engage Boko Haram and take them out of the business of mass slaughter, abductions, rape and terrifying domination of the north of the country, has enraged Nigerians.

The five year Islamist terror has killed thousands of people, sweeping through villages unprotected by the military, and attacking students in their schools. Since the government of Goodluck Jonathan insouciantly announced that it had succeeded in reaching a ceasefire agreement with the terrorist group, and was confident that the over-200 schoolgirls abducted months earlier were set for release, Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks.


The leader of Boko Haram has taken great pleasure in denying that any ceasefire agreement has taken place, and went out of his way to mock the grieving parents of the missing schoolgirls, emphasizing that they had been converted to Islam, and were now 'married', never to be seen by their families again, and all is well and as it should be.

In this latest atrocity, seventy-nine students were admitted to hospital, some with injuries sufficiently life-threatening that they may lose limbs to amputation. The hospital itself is desperately attempting to cope with the massive influx, that has required that some patients be fitted in two to a bed. One of the largest towns in Yobe province, Potiskum has been the target of Boko Haram previously.

Fifteen townspeople were killed last week alone, the result of an earlier suicide bombing. The bomber had taken part in a Shia Muslim religious procession. And then blew himself to smithereens taking innocent Nigerians with him into Paradise. Not to worry: "Our mandate is to secure safety and security. By and large we are making good successes", confided Nigeria's police spokesperson.

Labels: Atrocities, Islamism, Jihad, Nigeria

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 12, 2014