Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnap over 100 women, children in Nigeria

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 people during a Sunday raid on the remote northeast Nigerian village of Gumskiri, a security source and resident said on Thursday.

News from remote parts of Nigeria that are cut off from mobile communications sometimes takes days to travel.

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"They gathered the people, shot dead over 30 people and took away more than 100 women and children in two open top trucks," Maina Chibok, who did not witness the attack but is from Gumskiri and visited family there shortly afterwards.

Although no one has claimed it yet, the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which in a similar assault abducted more than 200 women in April from a secondary school in Chibok, very near this latest attack on the Cameroon border.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKBN0JW1FP20141218?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[leftynyc]

1. Freeking animals

Are the Nigerian law enforcement really so woefully pathetic they can't fight against these cretins?

[inanna]

2. Cameroon is.....

I was hesitant to post this as there is no independent confirmation yet, according to the article:

Cameroon army kills 116 Boko Haram militants, defence ministry says

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's army killed 116 Boko Haram militants on Wednesday when they attacked a base in the far north of the country, said defence ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck.

"On the militant side, there were 116 deaths in Cameroonian territory and unknown damage on the Nigerian side (of the border) after the vigorous riposte of our artillery," he said. There was no independent confirmation of the exchange.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/cameroon-army-kills-116-boko-haram-militants-defence-133849296.html

[duhneece]

3. Why can't we use drones to find these monsters?

WhY?
Recent NAACP magazine featured a tour to Cameroon...

[Warren Stupidity]

6. it is not our fight

The governments of the region do not want us blowing up their people in a misguided effort to eliminate "bad guys".

[duhneece]

7. I'm not suggesting blowing ANYONE up

But drones can find these targets...and let the governments or non-governmental-agencies know where they are in real time.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. There is no evidence that "drones can find these targets".

But again, governments are very wary of inviting us in - we never leave and we take over. It is like getting help from the mafia.

[duhneece]

9. NGO's might be more able to negotiate

Drones are not that expensive IF they could help in the finding.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. no NGO in their right minds would do this.

Their people are already targets. Direct participation in a conflict would be madness.

[former9thward]

15. There is no law enforcement in that area of the country.

Anarchy.

[cosmicone]

4. I shall not comment n/t

[Rhinodawg]

11. I won't either.

if people don't get it by now, they never will.

[Rhinodawg]

12. cosmicone... i was going to post this, but some wouldn't get it either.

‘Honour’ crime: Boy attacks aunt with acid

http://tribune.com.pk/story/808037/honour-crime-boy-attacks-aunt-with-acid/

[cosmicone]

13. The whole religion has to reform itself

When teachings like this prevail:

Qur'an (4:34) - "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them."

Qur'an (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them"

Women are property and thus can be held hostage, used and abused in furtherance of men's whims.

[Rhinodawg]

14. .

This was said on DU a couple of months ago...

"When it comes to oppressing women, Muslim countries have it down to an art form."

[Roy Rolling]

5. Wasn't gonna comment, either

I erased my first rant.

My first thought is that if the kidnappers were under the threat of a quick reprisal, this would not work. I don't know how a force could be mustered to chase them within minutes, but if it could, perhaps it would make a difference.

And on the other side, does a protracted negotiation preserve the life of those kidnapped? Such a complicated issue...