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Boko Haram Islamists kill over 100 in Nigeria village massacre

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Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed more than 100 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria, a local senator said on Sunday.

The attackers stormed the village in Nigeria’s restive northeastern Borno state on Saturday , slaughtering scores of civilians and sending many others fleeing.

“A hundred and six people, including an old woman, have been killed by the attackers, suspected to be Boko Haram gunmen,” Senator Ali Ndume said.

“Sixty of the dead have been buried while the rest are awaiting burial,” he added, saying the attacks in the area were becoming “deadlier and more frequent by the day.”

The raid took place on Saturday in the mostly Christian village of Izghe in Borno, which has been under emergency rule since May last year in a bid to stop an Islamist rebellion that has claimed thousands of lives since 2009.

A local farmer who escaped by scaling the fence of his house and crawling on his belly for 40 minutes said the attackers had gone door-to-door looking for those hiding in their houses.Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed more than 100 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria, a local senator said on Sunday.

The attackers stormed the village in Nigeria’s restive northeastern Borno state on Saturday, slaughtering scores of civilians and sending many others fleeing.

“A hundred and six people, including an old woman, have been killed by the attackers, suspected to be Boko Haram gunmen,” Senator Ali Ndume said.

“Sixty of the dead have been buried while the rest are awaiting burial,” he added, saying the attacks in the area were becoming “deadlier and more frequent by the day.”

The raid took place on Saturday in the mostly Christian village of Izghe in Borno, which has been under emergency rule since May last year in a bid to stop an Islamist rebellion that has claimed thousands of lives since 2009.

A local farmer who escaped by scaling the fence of his house and crawling on his belly for 40 minutes said the attackers had gone door-to-door looking for those hiding in their houses.

“The attackers came around 9:30pm (20.30 GMT) in six trucks and some motorcycles. They were dressed in military uniform,” Barnabas Idi said. “They asked men to assemble at a place, and began hacking and slaughtering them.”

There were no security forces in the town at the time of the attack, he said.

The head of the local government in the area, Maina Ularamu, earlier told AFP: “From the latest information I have gathered, more than 60 people have been killed.

“We suspect that the gunmen were members of Boko Haram. They have taken over the village.

“They looted businesses and food stores and loaded all their spoils into vehicles owned by residents and fled into the bush,” he added.

The official was speaking from Abuja and said he was preparing to return to Maiduguri, the state capital, to deal with the fallout of the attack.

Hundreds of villagers in Borno had already fled to Maiduguri after Boko Haram militants last week killed 43 people in two separate attacks.

The militant sect has said it is fighting to create a strict Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north.

The southern half of the oil-rich country, Africa’s most populous, is mainly Christian.

Gunmen also attacked a fishing village on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing an unspecified number of residents.

A survivor said several people had drowned in the lake while trying to escape the gunmen.

Military spokesman Mohammed Dole confirmed the attack but declined to comment further saying the area fell under the jurisdiction of a multinational task force comprising troops from Nigeria, Niger and Chad.

Boko Haram militants have carried out frequent attacks in both cities and remote areas of the northeast, despite a military operation launched when emergency rule was declared.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who has voiced frustration with the progress of the operation, replaced his top military brass on January 16.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s largest oil producer, is scheduled to hold presidential elections in February next year.

The Daily Telegraph

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9 responses to “Boko Haram Islamists kill over 100 in Nigeria village massacre”

  1. man-o-war Avatar
    man-o-war

    Btru2u?

    1. Leborigine Avatar
      Leborigine

      Probably celebrating!

      1. Farq2 Avatar
        Farq2

        Yep, celebrating with a machete in his hand and a good old allah akbar.

  2. Btru2u Avatar
    Btru2u

    No I’m not celebrating ,this must be condemned , this is not Islamic practise,
    Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, the Niger State governor, has criticized the group, saying, “Islam is known to be a religion of peace and does not accept violence and crime in any form” and Boko Haram doesn’t represent Islam.[48]
    The Sultan of Sokoto Sa’adu Abubakar, the spiritul leader of Nigerian Muslims, has called the sect “anti-Islamic” and, as reported by the website AllAfrica.Com, “an embarrassment to Islam.”[49]
    The Coalition of Muslim Clerics in Nigeria (CMCN) have called on the Boko Haram to disarm and embrace peace.[50]
    The Islamic Circle of North America,[51] the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada,[52] the Muslim Council of Britain,[53] the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[54] and the Council on American Islamic Relations[55] have all condemned the group.

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      So who do you think is funding and arming them? Is this not the same mentality as isis, nusra, daesh ,alqaeda?

      1. Btru2u Avatar
        Btru2u

        Allahu a3lam, but the rules of engagement clearly state ,not. To target non combatants,
        So I’ll leave that to Allah to judge , as I cannot trust (with good reason) information received from Zionist media reports.
        Is it not ironic that Ya libnan only runs positive stories about christians and always negative stories about Muslims..hmmmmmm

  3. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    This Boko group is nothing of Beacouq of devils work. these people think they can take over Nigeria and by trying to intimidate and kill people in the name of Allah. I don’t understand why the government go around and seek their hideouts and flash these bastards to hell. enough of this crap and Hezbollah looking like an angel compare to these groups..

  4. Btru2u Avatar
    Btru2u

    Ethnic cleansing of CAR’s Muslims with impunity , reminiscent of UN set up of Muslim genocide in KOSOVO…..

    Last updated: 12 February 2014

    Rights group’s report blames anti-Balaka fighters for attacks leading to “Muslim exodus of historic proportions”.

    Anti-Balaka fighters in the Central African Republic are trying to “ethnically cleanse Muslims”, Amnesty International, the UK-based rights organisation, says in a report that cites first-hand testimonies from victims of the violence in the country’s northwest.

    The result of the violent attacks is “a Muslim exodus of historic proportions”, Joanne Mariner, senior crisis response adviser for Amnesty International, says in the report.

    The report, published on Tuesday, also criticises the international community’s response to the crisis, noting that the peacekeeping troops have been reluctant to challenge mostly Christian anti-Balaka fighters, and have been slow to protect the Muslim minority.

    The report details witness testimonies included that of a boy named Abdul Rahman who told the group that anti-Balaka fighters demanded the Muslim passengers to get out of a lorry he was travelling in on January 14, and then killed six members of his family, including three women and a toddler.

    The UN on Tuesday accused Christian fighters who armed themselves to retaliate against Muslim rebels of contributing to a “climate of complete impunity”.

    Muslims have accused the French and African peacekeepers of failing to disarm the fighters at the same time they have been actively disarming the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels, who deposed President Francois Bozize in March last year.

    French troops on Tuesday seized a large cache of weapons, including anti-tank mines and mortar rounds, from a Christian neighbourhood in the capital Bangui.

    The head of the French military mission in the country said that the Christian fighters picking up arms made them “enemies of peace”.

    ‘Culture of impunity’

    The anti-Balaka [anti-machete] fighters initially described their group as one to protect civilians from attacks by the Seleka rebels, who were accused of looting and atrocities against civilians after their leader, Michel Djotodia, became president.

    In recent weeks, however, the anti-Balaka fighters have taken part in mob killings and lynching of Muslim civilians in a wave of violence that has prompted tens of thousands to flee the country for neighbouring Chad.

    Patrice Edouard Ngaissona, an anti-Balaka leader, defended his fighters’ actions, saying they were “young Central Africans who had risen up and sacrificed their lives for the people when no regular army existed to protect the nation”.

    However, Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave warning on Tuesday that leaders of anti-Balaka and other armed groups would be held “personally accountable for human rights violations perpetrated by those under their control”.

    Meanwhile, thousands of Muslim civilians who had not been able to flee the country last week aboard huge lorries bound for neighbouring Chad sheltered at mosques and waited for armed escorts to take them out of Bangui.

    France has sent 1,600 troops to its former colony, in addition to nearly 6,000 peacekeepers from African nations who are working to stabilise the lawless country further destabilised by the coup last year.

    Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US assistant secretary for African Affairs, said on Tuesday that additional security was needed, including police units, to maintain order on the streets of Bangui.

    For his part, Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, discussed with Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, what could be done to increase support for the African peacekeepers and whether more troops “might be envisaged”, according to Martin Nesirky, UN spokesman.

    More than a million people have been displaced by the violence since Seleka installed Djotodia as interim president.

    Djotodia, along with Nicolas Tiangaye, his prime minister, resigned on January 10 under international pressure after failing to halth the inter-religious violence.

    Catherine Samba-Panza, mayor of Bangui, was elected as the interim president, but the deadly violence has continued.

  5. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    They should take up their grievances with their god for creating a western civilization…

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