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A continuing Islamist disaster in the works.
Boko Haram's ruthless reign of terror in Nigeria.
Attacking/targeting schools because they oppose secular education.
These 'insurgents' need to be hunted down like the animals they are.
Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents striking schools, farms - latimes.com
By Robyn Dixon and Aminu Abubakar
June 20, 2013
Boko Haram's ruthless reign of terror in Nigeria.
Attacking/targeting schools because they oppose secular education.
These 'insurgents' need to be hunted down like the animals they are.
Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents striking schools, farms - latimes.com
By Robyn Dixon and Aminu Abubakar
June 20, 2013
KANO, Nigeria -- Nigerian soldiers and police once had the most to fear from the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia Boko Haram. But the insurgents' latest targets include farmers, irrigation officials, schoolchildren and teachers.
In northeastern Nigeria, one of the poorest regions of the country, about 19,000 farmers have abandoned their crops in recent months because of attacks and threats by Boko Haram rebels, according to government officials.
Children are afraid to go to school because of recent attacks. Eighteen people, 16 children and two teachers, have been killed since Sunday in insurgent attacks on two schools in the Borno capital, Maiduguri, and another northeastern town, Damaturu. Two attackers also died, according to authorities.
Boko Haram opposes secular education and secular governance, seeking to impose Islamic law, or Sharia, across Nigeria. The nation is divided between the predominantly Muslim north, where unemployment and poverty are rife, and the mainly Christian south. The rebellion, once confined to sporadic attacks, has turned northeastern Nigeria into a war zone.
The Nigerian government Thursday banned the use of satellite phones in northern Nigeria, saying that Boko Haram has been using the phones to plan attacks. Cellphone signals have also faced interruption by the government, as it struggles to crush the rebellion.
In addition, Borno state agriculture commissioner Usman Zannah said that serious food shortages are expected in the region this year because of crop failures brought on by the exodus of thousands of farmers from around New Marte town after rebels took control in January. That would be a significant failure by the state and national governments to reinvigorate the region and avert hunger through a wheat and rice irrigation project launched last year near New Marte. The national government provided about 25,000 acres of land, seed, expertise and other incentives to farmers as part of the project."....."
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