The history of Boko Haram violence – Atrocities committed by Boko Haram militants are well-documented. Notoriously known jihadist sect, waging a violent terror campaign, was a serious headache for Goodluck Jonathan – and now it has become one of the top problems for Muhammadu Buhari, which is yet to be solved.
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Abubakar Shekau claims to be the leader of Boko Haram militants. Still, nine moths ago Australian negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis, has insisted that former governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Army Staff, General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika are Boko Haram sponsors.
Davis also claimed that Boko Haram, sponsored by some Nigerian politicians, received a large amount of their finances through the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN).
It is assumed that Boko Haram terrorists could have been provided with Russian weapons from the territory of Chad.
In April 2009 hundreds of people were killed in a weekly spree of bombings, assassinations and kilings in Maiduguri.
200 Boko Haram militants stormed the prison in Bauchi, leaving no chances for prison personnel to repel their attack. One policeman was killed.
Carrying out suicide bombing of the UN office in Abuja was linked first to the militant Somali group Al-Shabaab, that has been linked to al-Qaeda.
However, the secret service later described those behind the act of terror as “notorious Boko Haram elements.”
Five churches were bombed on that day in Abuja.
In Damaturu a police station and a state security building were also bombed.
In 2012 at least 200 people were killed in Kano in bombings and gun attacks. The number of casualties could have been even higher, but police in Kano seized ten cars packed with explosives and 300 improvised explosive devices.
Scores of police officers have been killed during coordinated attacks on multiple targets, carried out by 100 Boko Haram militants in May 2013. Nigerian military informed that 13 militants have been killed.
Boko Haram militants widely use dirty terror tactics, detonating explosive devices in crowded places.
At least 29 students were killed, some of them burnt alive during Boko Haram attack at a federal college in Buni Yadi.
In early January 2015, Boko Haram attacked Baga town in Borno State. It was disclosed that on January 3, 2015, terrified residents of Baga town were forced to run into bushes in the town and surrounding villages when Boko Haram gunmen unloaded motorcycles from their trucks and chased after them.
Displaced residents of Baga revealed the shocking details about how insurgents seized the town and forced the locals to flee into the neighbouring Chad Republic.
According to the military officials only 150 people were killed in a fierce attack.
Nevertheless, Human Rights Watch disclosed horrifying details of Boko Haram assault on Baga, showing it was the worst massacre conducted by jihadists in the last six years. HRW report blamed Nigerian troops, who fled from the battlefield, leaving their weapons and unarmed civilians at mercy of blood-thirsty militants – and that’s why later military tried to downplay the number of casualties in Baga.
Peter Maurer, who heads International committee of the Red Cross, assessed the situation with refugees in the capital of the Borno state as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
The most of the population in Borno state has been moved to Maiduguri, with its population grown more than twice, making it a city with more than two million inhabitants,” told Peter Maurer adding that “this is a big refugee crisis – one of the largest in the world”.
Former military top Alani Akinrinade on June 18, Thursday, said that the Nigerian forces was not the solution to Boko Haram insurgency.
Lt-Gen Akinrinade (retd.), ex chief of army staff, made his position known in Kaduna during a seminar on the Africa’s Big Five.
At the same time, yesterday Boko Haram insurgents carried out an attack in Niger, killing scores of people.
BBC reports with reference to the country officials that at least 38 people died in the Wednesday night raid.
Bulu Mammadu disclosed that there were women and children among the victims shot dead in two villages.
According to Reuters, the atrocity took place in southern Niger’s Diffa region, with the death toll reaching at least 30. A security source fears this figure might rise.
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