By: Bashir Adigun and Robbie Corey-Boulet
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/18/boko-haram-cameroon_n_6497288.html?utm_hp_ref=world
Boko Haram is a terrorist, militant and Islamist movement based in northeast Nigeria with additional activities in Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The group is led by Abubakar Shekau, and the number of fighters is usually estimated at around 9,000. The group is designated as a terrorist organization by New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and the United Nations Security Council, which declared it an al-Qaeda affiliate and imposed the al-Qaeda sanctions regime on the group. Since 2009 Boko Haram have abducted more than 500 men, women and children, including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014. 650,000 people had fled the conflict zone by August 2014, an increase of 200,000 since May; by the end of the year 1.5 million had fled. Boko Haram hit a village in Cameroon abducting the most people ever in that country. "The Cameroon attack occurred in Mabass village, in the Far North region, Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. He said 80 houses were destroyed and "between 30 and 50" people were believed to have been abducted" (Source 1). Boko Haram has been ruthlessly recruiting in the countries of Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
Boko Haram is just another terrorist group that is rebellious, ruthless, and without pity. They need to stopped and justice needs to be served. Boko Haram has been doing these kind of abductions and even mass killings for a long time and it is time for the killings and kidnappings to stop and for the terrorist group to seize power.
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