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Nigeria: Islamic State-linked Boko Haram used children as human bombs

Apr 3, 2015 7:07 am By Robert Spencer

Nigeria-Mafa-BokoHaramThe Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, aka Boko Haram, has pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State’s caliphate.

“Boko Haram accused of crimes against humanity by the UN after reports the Islamists have slaughtered female slaves and used children as ‘human bombs’ in Nigeria,” by Sara Malm, MailOnline, April 2, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Boko Haram fighters have been murdering dozens of young women and girls they had taken as ‘wives’ and using children as ‘expendable cannon fodder’, the U.N.’s human rights chief said today.

As the Islamist militant group has retreated from parts of northeastern Nigeria, ‘gruesome scenes of mass graves and further evident signs of slaughter,’ has been brought to light, Zeid Raad al-Hussein told a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Boko Haram’s reported use of children as shields and human bombs would, if confirmed, constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, he said.

This comes in response to last week’s reports that hundreds of women and children had been seized from Nigerian primary schools by Boko Haram militants to be used as ‘human shields’.

The Islamic militants took as many as 500 adults and children from primary schools in the north-eastern town of Damasak in late February, Mike Omeri, spokesman for the fight against Boko Haram, confirmed.

‘Boko Haram rushed to primary schools they took children and adults that they are using as shields to protect themselves from the menacing advance of troops,’ he added.

There has also been eye-witness reports of the insurgents slaughtering dozens of Nigerian women who had been forced to marry Boko Haram fighters, before a battle with government troops in the northeast town of Bama.

Witnesses said the women’s Islamist militant ‘husbands’ feared they would be killed by advancing troops, and murdered their ‘wives’ to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or ‘infidels’.

Mr Al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also told the council that there are ‘persistent and credible reports’ of serious rights violations by Nigerian and other security forces responding to Boko Haram….

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  1. boakai ngombu says

    Apr 3, 2015 at 7:49 am

    Froggy, the water in this pot is getting very warm.

  2. Gary says

    Apr 3, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Ultimately, the arrogance of Muhammad, and all those who believe in the lies that satan fed him thousands of year ago, will be their undoing…..

    “How you are fallen from heaven,
    O Lucifer, son of the morning!
    How you are cut down to the ground,
    You who weakened the nations!
    For you have said in your heart:
    ‘I will ascend into heaven,
    I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
    I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
    On the farthest sides of the north;
    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
    I will be like the Most High.’
    Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
    To the lowest depths of the Pit.

    Isaiah 14:12-15

    Clearly, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of every Muslim.

  3. Westman says

    Apr 3, 2015 at 11:03 am

    “…the women’s Islamist militant ‘husbands’ feared they would be killed by advancing troops, and murdered their ‘wives’ to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or ‘infidels’.”

    There seems to be a Quranic or Sunnah verse to cover just about any attrocity but this killing of the slave “wives” appears to have no precedence in Islam or the wild animal kingdom.

    Distorted Islam appears in this case to be the enabler but perhaps not the cause. Mr. Haram wants food, haram wants sex, haram wants property, haram doesn’t want work, haram likes excitement, haram kills, haram takes food, haram rapes women, haram keeps rapee cattle on leash, haram selfish, haram may lose chattel so haram kill cattle, haram big man, Allah’s man. Mr. Haram has a normal brain says Jared Diamond; it just has the wrong contents.

    Dear Jared Diamond, we’re very upset;
    We never had the learnin ev’ry child oughta get.
    We ain’t no delinquents,
    We’re misunderstood.
    Deep down inside us there is good!

    Dear kindly Mr. Diamond,
    You’ve gotta understand,
    It’s just our bringin’ up,
    That gets us out of hand.
    Our mothers are just chattel,
    Our fathers hit them with paddles.
    Golly Moses, natcherly we’re addled!

  4. Lioness says

    Apr 4, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    World: take a good look a Nigeria today. This is how the rest of our civilization is going to look like soon. Every part of the world where Muslims inhabit it, has turned into a blood bath, and our leaders are doing nothing, except apologize for Islam. We need a leader like Churchill more than ever now.

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